Hanged for Penning a Two-Line Ditty ; Nigel Vile Walks Around Hullavington Where He Uncovers Stories of Topless Models, a Princess Entertained by a Gardener and an Infamous Bridge
The Bath Chronicle › July 29, 2010
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Researching these Chronicle walks certainly unveils a few nuggets of information.
In a farmhouse in Hullavington, the starting point for this week's walk, lived the man who wrote two lines that rang throughout England and have never been forgotten, and who was hanged for writing them: The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell the Dog Rule all England under the Hog. The hog was Richard III and he executed William Collingbourne who penned these lines while living in what is now Bradfield Manor Farm passed near the end of the walk.See the full content of this document
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Hanged for Penning a Two-Line Ditty ; Nigel Vile Walks Around Hullavington Where He Uncovers Stories of Topless Models, a Princess Entertained by a Gardener and an Infamous Bridge
What of Hullavington? The village website reveals even more trivia.
The village school finally got electricity in 1948, while in 1965 RAF Hullavington ceas...See the full content of this document
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