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History of Bredenbury and it's Landed Estate
Jennifer
Weale 1998 200 pages, 130 photographs, documents & maps
£11.95
ISBN
0 9502068 7 3
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history of Bredenbury and its Landed Estate covers the period from
Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It begins with the enigma of the
place name (the boarded burg) and continues with ancient Saxon estates
and their association with Avenbury, estates which have given us our
modern parish boundaries. Then there are the manorial lords, and above
all, our Bredenbury forebears - the ordinary people. We read of the
comparative affluence of Elizabeth Robbins with her numerous pairs of
sheets, her 'flaxen apern', her 'board cloth wrought with blew thrid'
and her twelve table napkins, and of pauper Eliza Hudson being
provided with shoes by the overseer. It was a small parish and poverty
was never far away. Then in the nineteenth century, Bredenbury was
given to young Henry Barneby of Brockhampton as a wedding present, and
the transformation that followed included a grand mansion set in
parkland and the development of the village to cater for the needs of
the household and estate. Today we might question a plan which
required the old church to be demolished and rebuilt on a more
convenient site. |
