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©Paul Shreeve
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The Chartist estate at Snigs End extended to over 268 acres around the village of Staunton and was built between 1847 and 1851. The 81 plot development included cottages to a common design (as seen here), a schoolhouse and a network of roads and pathways. The original settlers won their cottage with a 3 or 4 acre plot through a lottery and were provided with supplies of manure, firewood and seed. In 1848, the third National Chartist petition was taken to Parliament on a cart made at Snigs End and pulled by Snigs End horses. The "colonies" were declared illegal by a House of Commons Select Committee in 1851 and the properties sold off. Their founding light, Feargus O'Connor, died shortly after declared a lunatic.
©Roger Davies
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©Paul Shreeve
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The church is dedicated to St James and was restored in 1860 when the chancel was rebuilt and the north and south porches were added. There is some herringbone masonry in the north wall however. Until 1931 when boundary changes took place this parish was in Worcestershire.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A picturesque scene with a man sat fishing in a duck pond in front St James's church and Staunton Court.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This milepost on the edge of the village of Staunton is evidence that this village which is now in the county of Gloucestershire was in Worcestershire until it was transferred in 1931.
©Philip Halling
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©Roger Davies
Dist:0.5km north<br/>St James's church, Staunton viewed from across a fishing pond.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Detail from a memorial to William Horton in Staunton church, I assume this figure represents one of his children.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The War Memorial in Staunton is in a field just outside the churchyard.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The tower and spire of St James's church, Stauntaon viewed across the duck pond.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Staunton church is dedicated to St James, the timber-framed dovecote dates from the seventeenth century.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A small cameo (complete with bird droppings) on a gravestone in Staunton churchyard.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Built in Norman times but has had substantial rebuilding including the tower, spire and nave. Viewed here from the nearby fishing lake at Staunton Court.
©Pauline Eccles
Dist:0.5km north<br/>An early seventeenth century memorial to William Horton in Staunton church.
©Philip Halling

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