Next Talk is on 28th October 2024 - Bathford Parish Hall at 8:00pm."Claverton, our near neighbour" by Glennis Naylor, a Claverton Parish Councillor and local historian - Claverton is a small village of just over 100 people with more than its share of history. It was part of the Anglo-Saxon Hundreds of Hampton, and operated under the Frankpledge system of collective responsibility. Its parish church has a Norman Tower and a seventeenth century peal of bells. The old manor house stood on the descent of a hill; and was besieged and captured by a parliamentarian force in the civil war. The present house, rebuilt, is now the American Museum. The Pumping Station has its own history. The weir is beautiful but locally contentious. Glennys will guide us through the history and introduce us to a few earlier residents on the way. |
