Located on a hill on the southern side
of the Braydon river and to the north of Lyneham airfield,
it was an important place in medieval times.
The site of the Augustinian priory of Clack founded
in 1142.
Some of its ruins are still to be seen in the farmstead
known as Bradenstoke Abbey, but its great barn and guest
house were taken down and carted away to St Donat's
Castle in South Wales by William Randolph Hearst.
The rest of Bradenstoke village is filled with timber
framed buildings with jettied upper stories, tudor style
windows and roofs of thatch. |
