The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
have copies of the photograph and information on William at all – he was her
father 289 . She told me that
My father is the youngest man in the photographs standing next to
the Butler ….. the other two men are the footmen, my father was the
Potboy
replacing James Austin who held the position in 1901 but who would have been
21 at this time (see fn 213 ).
George Palmer had reacquired Bewley House for the Lackham estate in 1902 290
(“and so once again until modern times the property formed part of Lackham
Estate”) and, in 1910, he commissioned Harold Brakespeare to draw up a report
on the house, which later appeared in print 291 . He donated £5 to WANHS to
cover the cost of the illustrations in the article. George Palmer contributed to
many Society appeals; for example he gave £20 towards the cost of extending
289 I am indebted to Mrs. Hopley for permission to reproduce the photographs and the
information she kindly gave. With her agreement, the original letter and copies of the
all the photographs have been deposited in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
290 As has been seen, Bewley had been part of the Lackham lands very early on – it was
“in the tithing of Lackham and was presumably developed from a clearing in the forest
[assart] with the blessing of Lackham” Harvey B & Harvey R (1987) Annals of Lacock
p 63
Lands associated with Bewley were part of Lackham before this, however; Manor of
Lackham particulars of the estate 1792 in the Wiltshire County Record Office, lists
assets of the estate, including Bewley Farm, rented to Isaac Joyce (who also rented it
in 1812) in 1792; it was given as just over 95 acres, in 1812 93 acres. Lackham also had
rights on parts of Bewley Common in 1792:
“Bewley Common is divided into thirty one leases, sixteen of which belong to the Lord
of the Manor of Lackham and fourteen to the Lord of the Manor of Lacock and one to
the Vicar of Lacock.
Bernard Dickinson Esq, in the year 1792, had a road granted to him over the said
common in consideration of his paying yearly to the occupiers of the leases the sum of
one guinea
291 Brakespeare, H (1912) Bewley Manor WAM vol XXXVIII, no CXVII June pp 391 –
399
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