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The Long and the short of it: South Wraxall Manor and the Longs

Posted by: Blog Administrator on May 6, 2011

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Dan Cruickshank has just taken a fascinating look at South Wraxall Manor, and to supplement his visit I thought I’d have a look in our archives for any quirky or unusual information on both the manor and Long family who initially made their fortune as clothiers.


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South Wraxall Manor

A. C. Martin restored the gardens at South Wraxall Manor for Richardson Cox between 1900 and 1902. He laid out the gardens whilst restoring the manor. By 1968 a geometrical island and sundial had found their way into an earlier circular swimming pool.


 Gateway, 1860s
947/1787/1 Gateway of South Wraxall Manor, 1860s

 
 Letter from Medlicott to Walter Long
947/1062, 1878
Letter from Medlicott to Walter Long















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So, just what Do our visitors come to see?

Posted by: Blog Administrator on Oct 1, 2010

Tagged in: wool , Wiltshire Wills Project , Wiltshire , wills , William Small , Walter Long , wages account books , visitors , Victoria County History , Urban District Council Committee Minutes , trade , tithe awards , Swindon New Town , survey , student , strong rooms , servant , search rooms , samples , Salisbury , road , resignation , researchers , requests , records , quest , Quaker Meeting House , publication , production team , pre-order , pattern book , parish , papers , painter , original , ordnance survey , ordination , order , Methuen , material , marriage , maps , manorial , Maiden Bradley , Long family , Local Studies Assistant , letter , Julie Davis , Japanese , inventory , interest , household , history group , Helpdesk Team , glazier , genealogists , estate , Edward Seymour , documents , diary , curate , Corsham Court , correspondence , cloth , church goods , church , catalogues , Archivists , Archives , admissions registers

I thought it may be of interest to take a look on your behalf at the kind of original documents visitors order out when they visit our search rooms, to give you an idea of the wide range of requests we receive for documents each day. I chose a day last week at random, and got peeking!

 
Pattern Book, Ref: 947/1802

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