Lynda Sanderson, John Passmore and son Oliver outside Manor House in Petty France - COPYRIGHT JAY WILLIAMS |
In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen mentions the hamlet of Petty France in south Gloucestershire as a dull staging post on the road between Bath and the fictional abbey: “There was nothing to be done but to eat without being hungry,” she writes, “and to loiter about without anything to see.”
Petty France is home to just 16 houses. Its name, at least according to one theory, is thought to have derived from the Huguenot weavers who emigrated there during the time of Henry VIII.
It lies on the A46 between Bath and Stroud, on the edge of the Duke of Beaufort’s 52,000-acre Badminton Estate.
By Arabella Youens.
Full story at Yahoo News.
No comments:
Post a Comment