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1780 |
Mail coach takes only 16 hours for the journey from Chippenham to London; Cherhill white Horse cut |
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Broughton Gifford
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1780 |
Benjamin Hobhouse, the last of the Lords of the Manor, buys The Bell. |
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Broughton Gifford
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1780 |
Sir Benjamin Hobhouse of Cottles House buys Broughton manor (including Church Farm and a farm on the common, tenements, and woodland for £11,500. |
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Chippenham
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1780 |
The mail coach took 16 hours for the journey from Chippenham to London |
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Marlborough
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1780 |
Marlborough Academy opened |
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Pewsey
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1780 |
A typhus epidemic kills 50 people |
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Purton
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1780 |
The charity school moves to a house in Purton Street and an adjoining schoolroom is built |
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Ramsbury
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1780 |
Three or more tan yards are operating in the village |
