humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Well, this is different for me - this post is about Bacon!

Elizabeth's post interested me...

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I know, I've poured over maps of Gloucestershire looking for Bacon's
'estate on the Avon' claimed by
the Baconians. Stratford is what?
twenty or thirty miles from Gloucestershire,
Gloucestershire is maybe sixty miles
long? then you hang a left at the Severn
to Wilton which looks to be another
thirty or forty mile drive?

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I've looked around to see what I might find,
and I wonder if there is a link here...

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Cheltenham Church and its lands were then leased to a succession of
laymen, who were responsible for employing curates to serve the Church
and parish, while they themselves enjoyed the profits of the church
land and properties.

The most famous of these laymen was Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to whom
the Church, and the Chapel at CharIton Kings, were leased in 1598.

http://www.stmattschelt.org.uk/history.htm

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Cheltenham is certainly in Gloucestershire,
and there appears to be a River Avon in the area...

in fact, two, the Wiltshire Avon
and the "Tetbury Avon".

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The Avon rises near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, dividing into
two before merging again and flowing through Wiltshire. In its lower
reaches from Bath to the River Severn at Avonmouth near Bristol the
river is navigable and known as the Avon Navigation.

Course

The Avon rises near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, between the
villages of Old Sodbury and Acton Turville. Running a somewhat
circular path, the river drains east and then south through Wiltshire.

Its first main settlement is the village of Luckington, two miles
inside the Wiltshire border, and then on to Sherston.

At Malmesbury it joins up with its first major tributary,

the Tetbury Avon, which rises just north of Tetbury in
Gloucestershire.

This tributary is known locally as the Ingleburn, which in Old English
means 'English river'.

Here, the two rivers almost meet but their path is blocked by a rocky
outcrop of the Cotswolds, almost creating an island for the ancient
hilltop town of Malmesbury to sit on.

For much of its course after leaving Wiltshire, it marks the
traditional boundary between Somerset and Gloucestershire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Avon,_Bristol

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