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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.
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.
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Turleigh, Winsley, Wiltshire: House: Late 17th century to early 18th century: 13 November 1962 1021905: Upload Photo: Turner Memorial in the Churchyard about 45m ...
The manor house, northeast of the church, was built in 1647 for the Bennett family, in brick with a three-gabled limestone ashlar front. [27] The house and its estate was bought in 1799 by Richard Long of Rood Ashton , [ 2 ] and remained in the Long family until the 1970s, the last owners being Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long (1929–2017) and ...
Lake House is an Elizabethan country house dating from 1578, in Wilsford cum Lake in Wiltshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Salisbury. It is a Grade I listed building. [ 1 ] The gardens are Grade II listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest .
B. Bagshot, Wiltshire; Ballard's Ash; Bapton; Barkers Hill; Barrow Street, Wiltshire; Beardwell; Bemerton Heath; Bewley Common; Biddesden; Birdbush; Bleet, Wiltshire
To the northwest are 17th-century stables and an 1834 carriage house. 19th-century additions include a service and nursery wing, and a square water tower; work in 1877–1882 was designed by E. B. Ferrey under the ownership of Major-General A. G. Yeatman-Biggs, and on his death in 1898 the estate was inherited by his brother, Huyshe Wolcott ...