Woolbridge / Wellbridge Manor, Wool, Dorset - Excel RP postcard c.1940s

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• Picture / Image:  Wellbridge Manor of Tess o' the D'Urbervilles - actually Woolbridge Manor, Wool, Dorset
• Publisher:  Excel Series
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Woolbridge Manor is just outside the village of Wool, Dorset on the North side of the old Wool bridge, a historic crossing point over the River Frome, which is now closed to traffic except pedestrians and cyclists due to a bypass and junction.

Woolbridge Manor House has three storeys of red brick and stone construction, the roof covering is of clay tiles with seven courses of stone slates to the eaves. Many windows around the building have been removed at some time possibly due to the window tax in 1696.

Woolbridge Manor is said to have been garrisoned in the civil war and still has some of the metal bars set into the remaining ground floor stone mullion windows, as well as a wooden security bar across the front door. Woolbridge Manor was at some time partially demolished and was once much bigger, possibly forming a hollow square with an enclosed courtyard in the center. It is rumoured that a tunnel runs under the river from the Manor to Bindon Abbey.

The Manor was mentioned in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles as Wellbridge House where Tess and Angel Clare had their unfortunate honeymoon.

They drove by the level road along the valley to a distance of a few miles, and, reaching Wellbridge, turned away from the village to the left, and over the great Elizabethan bridge which gives the place half its name. Immediately behind it stood the house wherein they had engaged lodgings, whose exterior features are so well known to all travellers through the Froom Valley; once portion of a fine manorial residence, and the property and seat of a D'Urberville, but since its partial demolition a farm-house. ^[1]

In the house on the first floor landing are the two old mural portraits of Tess's ancestors also mentioned in the book.

A local legend, also mentioned in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, states that a phantom coach crosses the bridge by Woolbridge Manor at night, but only those with Turberville blood can see it. Various versions of the legend exist, but one^[2] associates the coach with the elopement of John Turberville of Woolbridge with Anne, the daughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon.

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=dorset

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted