Ilchester: Manor House
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Ilchester: Manor House
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 30 Jun 2012
At the corner of West Street and Almshouse Lane. Dating from the mid seventeenth century it was considerably altered in the eighteenth. This was at one time the home of the Tory, Sir William Manners, Lord Huntingtowers, who bought the manor of Ilchester from the town corporation in 1808, for political gain. It ishard to appreciate now, but until 1846 Ilchester was the county town of Somerset and returned two MPs to parliament. It remained one of the 'rotten boroughs' along with Old Sarum, Calne and others until the Reform Act of 1832. By the road that was originally the Roman Fosse Way
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Image Location
Latitude
51.000425
Longitude
-2.683996