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Marygreen Manor, a 16th-century building on London Road, is mentioned in Samuel Pepys' diaries and is said to have been often visited by the Tudor monarch Henry VIII when Henry Roper, Gentleman Pursuant to Queen Catherine of Aragon, lived there in 1514. It is now a hotel and restaurant. [10]
Fawley was the poor and depressed home of author Thomas Hardy's paternal grandmother, Mary Head; the main character in Jude the Obscure, stonemason Jude Fawley, lived in the fictional village of Marygreen, and a relative, one of Hardy's biographers, links the memories of this woman, who had a very depressing childhood, to the book's bleak start ...
Mary Cozens-Walker married name Mary Green, (1938–2020) English textile artist and painter Mary E. Green (1841–1910), American physician Marygreen, a fictional village in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure , inspired by Fawley, Berkshire
Locations in Wessex, from The Wessex of Thomas Hardy by Bertram Windle, 1902, based on correspondence with Hardy. Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the fictional literary landscape created by the English author Thomas Hardy as the setting for his major novels, [1] located in the south and southwest of England. [2]
Hungerford is one of two places which arguably meet the criteria for Kennetbridge in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, being "a thriving town not more than a dozen miles south of Marygreen" [26] and is between Melchester and Christminster . [27] The main road from Oxford to Salisbury runs through Hungerford. The other contender is the ...
St Mary, Green Street Green Green Street Green: Mary [21] 1937 United with All Souls Pratts Bottom St Barnabas, St Paul's Cray St Paul's Cray: Barnabas [37] 1950 Building 1962–1964 St Nicholas, Orpington Orpington: Nicholas [38] 1957–1958 Unity Church Orpington Orpington [39] 1969 Merger of three churches 2012 Christ Church, Orpington ...
St Andrew's Enfield. This is a list of cathedrals, churches and chapels in the London Borough of Enfield within the Greater London.The list focuses on the more permanent churches and buildings which identify themselves as places of Christian worship.
Before the Great Fire of London in 1666, the City of London had around 100 churches in an area of only one square mile (2.6 km 2).Of the 86 destroyed by the Fire, 51 were rebuilt along with St Paul's Cathedral. [1]