Turleigh is a hamlet in west
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
, England. It lies immediately south of the village of
Winsley
Winsley is a large village and civil parish about west of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, England.
The parish includes the hamlets of Conkwell, Turleigh, Little Ashley and Great Ashley.
History
The area was probably farmed in Roman times, ...
, overlooking the
Avon valley, about west of
Bradford on Avon
Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon or Bradford upon Avon) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset, which had a population of 9,402 at the 2011 census. The town's canal, historic buildings, s ...
.
The
Kennet and Avon Canal and
Avoncliff railway station are below the hamlet in the river valley.
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Urban development
Turleigh Manor is
Grade II* listed and was established in the 17th or 18th century when both Winsley and Turleigh comprised stone houses dating from the previous three centuries. At this time, much of the land was the
glebe
Glebe (; also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close(s))McGurk 1970, p. 17 is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved ...
land of the manor of Bradford Rectory. There was prosperity here in the 18th century, demonstrated by the extent of house building. These included Turleigh Grange (early 18th century), Stoneleigh, and Hill House (c.1740), originally two attached cottages. Many of the smaller houses in Turleigh were occupied by quarrymen,
stonemasons and
tanners.
From 1819 to 1885 there was a Baptist chapel at Turleigh Manor.
Notable people
John Daniel Heal
John Daniel Heal (1825–1908) was an alderman and mayor of Brisbane, Australia.
Private life
John Daniel Heal was born in Turleigh (spelt Turley at the time) near Bradford-on-Avon, England on 18 January 1825, and was baptised in the par ...
, mayor of
Brisbane, Queensland
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
, was born at Turleigh in 1825.
Moma Clarke
Maria Elvins Clarke née Pountney (1869 – 20 June 1958) was a British journalist based in Paris from the early 1900s until 1937 who wrote under the name Moma Clarke. She was the Paris fashion correspondent for the British newspaper ''The Times ...
(Maria Elvins Clarke, 1869–1958, journalist) lived in Turleigh for a while.
References
External links
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Hamlets in Wiltshire
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