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I would like to ask how did the village of Lacock become national trust property was it purchased or if bequeathed who owned it orginally?

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12 December 2005

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Lacock Abbey and most of the village of Lacock was given to the National Trust by Matilda Talbot in 1944, 14 years before her death. The estate had been bought by Sir William Sharington in 1539, at the Dissolution, and had passed to the Talbot family by marriage.

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