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Bratton, Wiltshire

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Bratton House
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Melbourne House, Bratton
Bratton is an attractive village 3 miles east of Westbury, there's a wealth, literally, of Listed buildings in it, two if which are Grade II*, The Court House, and Bratton House, both of which are pictured here. Melbourne House, also pictured is Grade II. Bratton Baptist Chapel, in Carpenter's Lane, is also Grade II* as is the Church of St James, in Bratton Church Road. The Court House, in Court Lane, was built in the 15th Century, Bratton House in the early 18th.

As well as the two churches Bratton has a primary school, a shop, and pub.

Former residents, of note or notoriety, include Rebecca Smith, the last woman to be hung for infanticide, of their own child, in Britain. She might not have been executed but it transpired that she'd killed 7 of her children before baby Richard was given arsenic! Another former resident was Major General Sir Jeremy Moore, KCB, OBE, MC & Bar (1928–2007), who was Commander of British land forces during the Falklands War. He accepted the Argentine's surrender. He lived at Melbourne House.

Bratton House was used during the First World War as barracks for the 26  Divisional  Cyclists Company, a recruitment poster at the time announced that "Bad Teeth No Bar"! Later on, from 1935, Sir  Horace Seymour,  'Envoy  Extraordinary  and Minister  Plenipotentiary'  to  Persia   and British Ambassador  to  China , and his wife, Violet, lived at Bratton House, loaning it to a convent school from Hampstead during the war.

In 2019 Bratton won the Best Kept, large village category, in Wiltshire.
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The Court House, Bratton
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The Duke, Bratton
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