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1826 |
William Cobbett author of 'Rural Rides' travels from Warminster to Salisbury and comments on the poor living conditions of farm labourers |
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Aldbourne
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1826 |
William Cobbett in his book Rural Rides describes the village as \" a decaying place\" that might be \" depopulated in twenty year's time\" |
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Amesbury
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1826 - 1835 |
Amesbury is a prosperous coaching town with 9 stagecoaches passing through daily |
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Broughton Gifford
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1826 |
Methodist Society forms. |
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Broughton Gifford
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1826 - 1827 |
Nathaniel Stinchcombe is the landlord of The Bell. |
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Calne
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1826 - 1829 |
First floor of the market house converted to a town hall |
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Calne
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1826 |
A Methodist meeting house at Studley is certified |
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Melksham
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1826 |
John Fowler, inventor of the steam plough, is born in Melksham |
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Westbury
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1826 |
William Cobbett visits the town and in his Rural Rides describes Westbury as a \"nasty, odious, rotten borough, a really rotten place\" where the cloth mills seem \"ready to tumble down as well as many of the houses\" |
