Bradfield Combust village sign
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bradfield Combust village sign by Adrian S Pye as part of the Geograph project.
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Bradfield Combust village sign
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 26 Feb 2021
This side of the sign celebrates Arthur Young (1741–1820), who lived in Bradfield Hall, an agriculturalist and great socio-political writer and campaigner for the rights of agricultural workers. The other side of the slide shows the village in flames. There seems to some confusion as to why Bradfield Combust is so named, but the village never had a disastrous fire. The name Bradfield Combust is traditionally said to have derived from an incident in the autumn of 1327, when an angry mob burned down Bradfield Hall, but it was called Bradfield Combust before that event ever took place. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4504686
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Image Location
Latitude
52.183225
Longitude
0.766549