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Lydiard link with important period architect
BLAYLOCKS
SWINDON'S FAMILY The £5.3 million bid to the Lord St John to raise his pro-
SHOE SHOP Heritage Lottery Fund for >vui ^itn file, as well as demonstrating
the restoration of Lydiard that he was a man of taste and
Est. 1920
Park has been strength- learning.
4'T I' tYG l i [
STOCKISTS OF ALL ened by new evidence Previous to the work taking
that the 18th Century re- place. between 1743 and 1746,
LEADING BRANDS
modelling of Lydiard the house was a Tudor style
NEW SPRING RANGES House was undertaken by manor house illustrated here.
the well-known Palladian The full history of Lydiard
NOW ARRIVING revival architect Roger :, Park can be seen by visiting
Morris. the house. To see the heritage
BLAYLOCKS
Historian Carole Fry ^z': lottery fund plans, go to:
Bath Road Corner discovered ancient ac- - ^^r.r.", 'ate www.lydiardpark.org
Old Town counts in the archives of the Sl
John family bank to support the The lost farms in the West:
Tel: 534271 claim that the renowned architect
Upper Shaw
of the time had been employed by
Frances Bevan from Middleleaze is researching the farms of West Swin-
don, before the houses arrived. Last month she wrote about Brook Farm
OPENING END OF FEBRUARY before it was turned into a restaurant. Here she looks at Upper Shaw Farm,
which twenty years ago in March opened as a community centre.
Candles Crystals For centuries Shaw, Upper Shaw during his long residency. He died
and East Leaze Farms, clustered on 11 March 1852 at Upper Shaw
& Art Supplies together on the parish boundary of Farm, aged 66 years old, cause of
Lydiard Millicent and Lydiard death, heart disease and atrophy.
Tregoze. It is likely that during the In 1870 the last of the Butt family
TUITION & 1 8th Century the Bolingbroke fam- owners, Thomas Packer Walter
Butt, sold the 74 acre Upper Shaw
ily of Lydiard Park owned all three
i OBS STOCKIST farms, but by the beginning of the Farm to William Plummer, tenant
at neighbouring East Leaze Farm,
1 9th only East Leaze remained
e^ ,,.aom^,ka, aoe ^a,, ^^ part of the Lydiard estate. for £5,647 18s. The property re-
The 1841 Tithe Map and mained in the Plummer family,
53 Godwin Court (behind Co-op) Old Town, Swindon Apportionments for Lydiard passing first to Emma after her
Millicent record that the owners of brother William's death, and then
Tel: 01793 613419
Upper Shaw Farm were Devereux to William John Plummer Kinchin,
Bowly and Samuel Sadler, trus- their sister Catherine's son.
tees of the late Thomas Packer William John Plummer Kinchin,
Butt's estate. The dairy farm com- the great nephew of Victorian ten-
prised 90 acres 3
rods and 38 perches
Wrag Barn Golf Club, Shrivenham Road, and field names in-
cluded Little and
Highworth, Swindon Great Monkards and
Tel.' 01 793 86132 7 Fax.- 01793 861325 Martins Hill.
Throughout the
Email.- info@u'ragbarn.com www.wragbarn.com
1 8th Century, prop-
erty and marriage ties
bind the Butt family
with the wealthy
Plummer and Sadler
families of Purton.
Thomas, the young-
est of William and
Hannah Sadler's seven surviving ant Thomas Sadler. sold the farm
children, was baptised at St. Mary's to George Henry Cowleyfor£5.000
Church, Purton on 29 September in 1920. After one hundred and ten
1 784. He married Mary Ann Bathe years the interchanging Sadler/
SUPER SLEUT January 1805 and their first child, a per Shaw Farm ended.
Plummer family occupancy at Up-
at the Purton parish church on 28
daughter Elizabeth Ann, was born Upper Shaw continued as a
MORSE, FROST, 1'4 F later that same year, the eldest of working, dairy farm until the Bor-
the couple's fourteen children. ough of Swindon purchased it along
TAGGART
In 1809 the family move from with Wick Farm for the purpose of
Purton to take up the tenancy of 'town development' in February
which are you? Upper Shaw Farm. Thomas and 1 971 at a cost £156,080.
Pit you wits at our Mary Ann now worship at All Saint's Whilst ancient fields of pasture
Church in Lydiard Millicent, where vanished beneath the new devel-
Murder Mystery Evening, their children are baptised, and opment, the stone built farmhouse
including a 3 course meal take an active role in their adopted survived, gaining a new lease of
parish. Thomas Sadler served as life when it opened as a borough
Saturday 12th March churchwarden between 1817 and owned community centre in 1984,
£22.50 per head • BOOK NOW 1 819 and 1827 to 1830, perform- providing halls and meeting rooms
ing various other parish offices available for hire.