Lyte's almshouses
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Lyte's almshouses by Neil Owen as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 29 May 2021
In 1612, Isaac Lyte (the grandfather of noted antiquarian John Aubrey) was born in the village. He later became an alderman of the City of London and left the princely sum of £600 for the construction of almshouses here. Completed in 1675, they were to provide a home for six poor unmarried men of the parishes of Kington St Michael and Kington Langley. Thus they remain almost unchanged, apart from the restoration of the 1960s, which added bathrooms; in 2008, extensions were made to assist disabled tennants.
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