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4 Interesting and historical facts about Woolstone.
Woolstone has a 17th-century timber-framed public house, the White Horse Inn
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The common lands of Uffington, Baulking and Woolstone were enclosed in 1776
A watermill at Woolstone is recorded in 1325, however it was demolished in about 1850 and replaced with a house, Woolstone Lodge.
Steam ploughing in 1884 revealed remains of a Roman villa built of clunch in a field just west of Woolstone village, Oxfordshire. In 1884 excavation found three human skeletons in the corridor of the Roman villa, which are thought to have been Saxon burials.
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Chapel Street in Penzance is home to many tales of the past including the first announcement of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar from the minstrel's gallery in the Union Hotel. Local fishermen had learnt of the fact from the ship hurrying to Falmouth to bring the news officially to Britain. The house at no. 25 Chapel Street was home to Maria Branwell before she moved to Yorkshire , married the Reverend Patrick Bronte and became mother to the famous Bronte family. She never lost her love of Cornwall, as she lay on her death bed she had the maid prop her up so she could watch the maid clear and prepare the grate as she did it the same way as it was done all those years ago, the Cornish way.
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