• Thumbnail for Great Bedwyn
    Great Bedwyn is a village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England. The village is on the River Dun about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southwest of Hungerford...
    17 KB (1,786 words) - 15:40, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Seymour (1474–1536)
    (or Wolf Hall) in the parish of Great Bedwyn in the Savernake Forest, Wiltshire. Sir John Seymour was a great-great-grandson of this Roger Seymour. Sir...
    40 KB (3,740 words) - 11:04, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bedwyn railway station
    Bedwyn railway station serves the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. It is 66 miles 33 chains (66.41 mi; 106.9 km) from the zero point at...
    5 KB (371 words) - 10:52, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wulfhall
    previous manor house on the same site, at that time in the parish of Great Bedwyn, was the seat of the Seymour family, a member of which, Jane Seymour...
    8 KB (863 words) - 23:07, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn
    The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, and a Grade I listed building. The church was built in the...
    17 KB (1,859 words) - 22:25, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grafton, Wiltshire
    Marten. The area was part of the ancient parish of Great Bedwyn, formed from a large estate called Bedwyn which was recorded in 968. The 1086 Domesday Book...
    15 KB (1,611 words) - 17:19, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
    Beauchamp, KG (22 May 1539 – 6 April 1621), of Wulfhall and Totnam Lodge in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire...
    14 KB (1,566 words) - 22:54, 15 August 2024
  • 1382–1390), of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Great Bedwyn in May 1382, October...
    1 KB (53 words) - 03:32, 16 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Savernake Forest
    Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Its area is approximately 4,500 acres (18 km2;...
    29 KB (3,695 words) - 10:43, 9 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wilton Windmill
    tower mill, standing on a chalk ridge between the villages of Wilton and Great Bedwyn in the southern English county of Wiltshire. The mill was built in 1821...
    4 KB (461 words) - 09:53, 10 October 2023
  • Great Bedwyn, U.K. John Seymour (died 1552), member of parliament for Wootton Bassett, U.K. John Seymour (died 1618), member of parliament for Great Bedwyn...
    2 KB (290 words) - 06:48, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
    and was buried in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. In 1706 a marble memorial topped with a bust was placed in St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn, at the expense of...
    7 KB (561 words) - 16:39, 18 February 2023
  • Thomas Malory (category Members of Parliament for Great Bedwyn)
    Warwickshire. In 1449–50, he was returned as member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, a seat controlled by the Duke of Buckingham. Malory's status changed...
    44 KB (6,251 words) - 21:40, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tottenham House
    House is a large Grade I listed English country house in the parish of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, about five miles southeast of the town of Marlborough. It...
    15 KB (1,847 words) - 02:33, 6 December 2024
  • the son of Royal Marine Colonel Francis Clifford Edward Bye, OBE, of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, and Twickenham, He later attended Ravensbourne College, London...
    6 KB (192 words) - 17:12, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Ughtred
    Armada. He was elected MP for the seat of Marlborough in 1584 and of Great Bedwyn in 1589. A wealthy landowner, Ughtred played an active role in the Plantations...
    28 KB (3,026 words) - 17:41, 13 November 2024
  • Genevieve Hidden (1926–2016), French surgeon George Hidden, English MP for Great Bedwyn in 1558 L'Encobert (died 1522), or "The Hidden", Spanish rebel leader...
    2 KB (291 words) - 14:24, 4 February 2024
  • thus served as Tory MP for Oxfordshire for 1685–1689, Great Marlow from 1689 to 1690, and Great Bedwyn from 1690 until his death. He was sworn of the Privy...
    6 KB (305 words) - 16:11, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burbage, Wiltshire
    on the nearby Reading to Taunton line, the nearest stations being at Great Bedwyn (which has commuter services to London) and Pewsey. Burbage lies in the...
    11 KB (1,181 words) - 19:35, 9 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kennet and Avon Canal
    route of the canal was altered to take a more southerly course through Great Bedwyn, Devizes, Trowbridge and Newbury. The proposed route was accepted by...
    105 KB (10,208 words) - 17:42, 30 November 2024
  • University of London. 2019 [1908]. pp. 417–422. Retrieved 9 December 2019. "Great Bedwyn". British History Online. Victoria County History – Wiltshire. University...
    4 KB (371 words) - 14:31, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crofton Pumping Station
    Crofton Pumping Station, near the village of Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, supplies the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal with water. The...
    9 KB (1,076 words) - 21:07, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Seymour
    register of Great Bedwyn records the baptism of the 1st Earl's great-granddaughter Frances Seymour, which was performed "at the Lodge in the Great Parke by...
    28 KB (3,802 words) - 17:52, 17 December 2024
  • 1382–1399), of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, was an English politician. He was a smith and a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Great Bedwyn in May 1382...
    1 KB (57 words) - 19:01, 2 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for William John Bankes
    in Dorset. Frances was the eldest daughter of William Woodley (MP for Great Bedwyn and Marlborough), a Caribbean sugar planter, Governor and Captain-General...
    19 KB (1,680 words) - 16:31, 8 January 2025
  • the manorial court of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. He was instructed by his employer to stand as Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn in April 1660 and was...
    3 KB (327 words) - 17:27, 22 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Nathaniel Dance-Holland
    Nathaniel Dance-Holland (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    Grinstead in Sussex. He served this seat until 1802 when he moved to Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, serving until 1806.[citation needed] In 1807 he returned...
    8 KB (422 words) - 00:37, 12 December 2024
  • Westgate-on-Sea, then to Oswestry, and finally to Tottenham House near Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. Until 1916 it was known as St Michael's School. In 1994,...
    9 KB (773 words) - 12:48, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Willis
    member of the Royal Society. Willis was born on his parents' farm in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, where his father held the stewardship of the manor. He was...
    21 KB (2,430 words) - 06:37, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Easton Royal
    A large hall was added to the school in 2005. In 1836 the vicar of Great Bedwyn mistakenly described Easton's benefice as royal; in the 1850s the village...
    10 KB (1,029 words) - 18:01, 22 August 2024