Wrington HISTORY |
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A number of histories
of Wrington
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This page will
introduce other
The map of Wrington
in 1738 was |
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The probable layout
of Wrington Manor House based on Abbot Richard Beere's Terrier
1516 the deed of 1670
The research on
the Manor House "At some time
between 1738 and 1754 .. |
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This drawing of
Broad Street in The Misses Chambers,
Truman and |
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The
Village Lock-up, proposed by Rector Leeves in 1824 was researched by Mr & Mrs D. James. "This little building still stands in the High Street" adjoining what is today the premises of Bennett Metcalf Solicitors |
"We
have .. been able to produce a plan from the existing building
which was purchased by a local grocer in 1952 .. [it] is in its original condition except that the wall dividing the cells has been removed, and the roof is now tiled." |
Mrs Frances Neale,
tutor of the The Bristol Turnpike
Trust .. set up in They planned, indeed,
to re-route it through Wrington itself, and only the strong objections
of Rev Henry The old coach road up the hill, being unsurfaced, was worn very deep into the ground by sheer usage" - as her diagram shows. |
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