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The earliest record of an estate associated with the Champneys name is in 1307. It appears in the Tring manor court rolls for 1514. It was owned by successive landowning families in the Wigginton, Hertfordshire and surrounding area between the 14th and 19th centuries, although for a short period around 1535 it is recorded as owned by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Under her leadership, and in collaboration with her son Stephen, several more spa locations were opened, including Springs in Leicestershire and Forest Mere in Hampshire. [5] In 2002, the Purdews acquired Champneys spa at Tring in Hertfordshire, leading to the rebranding of their establishments under the Champneys name. [4]
Print/export Download as PDF; ... John Speed's map of 1610 shows it as Lippocke. ... Champneys Forest Mere health spa is south of the village.
The Champneys, later Mostyn-Champneys Baronetcy, of Orchardleigh in the County of Somerset, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 12 January 1767 for Thomas Champneys, subsequently High Sheriff of Somerset from 1775 to 1776. He owned the Orchardleigh estate near Frome and other English properties.
Forest Mere is a 14.6-hectare (36-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Midhurst in West Sussex. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The site consists of Folly Pond and surrounding woodland, heath and bog.
Champney's West is a community and former town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.The village had a population of 75 in the Canada 2001 Census, [1] the last year in which Statistics Canada reported data for Champney's West (since then, it is part of the designated place Champneys-English Harbour).
A. M. Champneys wrote a dozen novels between the 1910s and the 1940s and two volumes of poetry. [6] Her critically well-received 1925 novel Miss Tiverton Goes Out has been called "a charming and poignant idyll" [ 7 ] and "a kind of masterpiece of oddness," reminiscent of such divergent writers as John Galsworthy , Henry James , Virginia Woolf ...
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