Turleigh is a hamlet in west

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, 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

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valley, about west of

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. The

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and Avoncliff railway station are below the hamlet in the river valley. __NOTOC__

Urban development

Turleigh Manor is

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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,

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and

tanner Tanner may refer to: * Tanner (occupation), the tanning of leather and hides People * Tanner (given name), * Tanner (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *The Tanner Sisters, also referred to as "The Harbingers of Weir ...

s. 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

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, 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

* Hamlets in Wiltshire {{Wiltshire-geo-stub