BARRATT Developments Ledbury Hawk Rise Leadon Way February 2021 - Progression Week 232

Описание: View of the New Housing Estate by BARRATT Homes - Hawk Rise !
Ledbury used to be such a beautiful small market town with rolling countryside - it's just getting bigger ! ( READ MORE Below )

Construction underway on the outskirts of Ledbury, Herefordshire, England February 2021.
They are building 247 new homes on this site. Building a mixture of 2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes.

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HISTORY OF LEDBURY
Ledbury is a borough whose origins date to around 690 AD.
In the Domesday Book it was recorded as Liedeberge. It may take its name from the River Leadon on which it stands.
Old English burg (fortified or defended site) has been added to the river name.

As a town it was created on a bishop's manor, probably, like Leominster, Bromyard and Ross-on-Wye, in the episcopate of Bishop Richard de Capella (1121-1127).
It returned members to Parliament in the reign of Edward I. The Feathers Hotel was a famous 16th century drovers' inn.
It was not until the reign of Queen Elizabeth I that this 'poor town' became prosperous thanks mainly to three families of clothier merchants, Skynner, Skyppe, and Elton.
No less than four battles were fought during the English civil wars, during which it was a bastion of royalism.
Thereafter the arrival of the Martin and Biddulph during the age of aristocracy and into the Victorian signalled a financial sea-change for the town from these banker landowners; Biddulph was later ennobled.

Lord Biddulph lived in the Regency mansion Underdown, built in Ledbury Park by Anthony Keck in about 1780.

Ledbury was home to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who spent her childhood at Hope End.
It is also the birthplace of poet laureate John Masefield, after whom the local secondary school is named.
William Wordsworth's 1835 sonnet St. Catherine of Ledbury, concerning a local anchoress called Katherine, begins "When ... Ledbury bells broke forth in concert".
In 1901 St. Katharine's priest was Charles Madison Green, whose wife, Ella, was the eldest sister of author H. Rider Haggard.
During the twentieth century the population stabilised, hardly growing at all to the Census of 1971. Becoming a prosperous town of small and independent traders, it relied heavily on agricultural industries.
With the addition of the by-pass in 1989, the population rapidly expanded to nearly 10,000 in Census 2011.
























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