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Winsley Sanatorium was opened in 1905, just west of the village on the hilltop site of a former quarry as fresh air was desired for treatment of tuberculosis and similar illnesses. [7] [8] By 1929 it was known as Winsley Chest Hospital, and by 1934 had been enlarged to house 134 patients; from 1948 patients with mental handicaps were treated.
Conkwell is a hamlet in Winsley parish, Wiltshire, England, near the county border with North East Somerset. It is about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) west of Bradford-on-Avon and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the city of Bath. The settlement was established to house the workers in the local stone quarries.
Hartwith cum Winsley is a civil parish in former Harrogate district, North Yorkshire, England. Historically it was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Malzeard in the West Riding of Yorkshire , a detached part of that parish. [ 1 ]
Summerbridge is a village in Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England.It is on the River Nidd, adjacent to Dacre Banks on the opposite bank of the river, and lies about 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Pateley Bridge.
Winsley Mines (grid reference) is a 1.48 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, near the village of Winsley in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1989. The site is a hibernation roost for the Greater Horseshoe bat , and forms part of the Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats Special Area of Conservation .
The early church was annexed to the church at Bradford. In 1846 the chapelry of Limpley Stoke was joined with that of Winsley to form a perpetual curacy; a new parish, Winsley with Limpley Stoke, was created in 1868. [4] In 1970 the parish was uncoupled from Winsley and united with Freshford, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. [21]
Winsley House, in the west of the parish, is a Grade II listed 14th-century farmhouse with later additions. [ 9 ] Most of the population of the village is centred in the housing estate called Cherrybrook Close, but the village extends up two roads, one of which leads to Westhope Common.
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