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See the registers of St Mary Charlcombe. As Sarah Fielding, the novelist's sister, was buried in the entrance to the chancel of this church, it would appear that some connection existed between Charlcombe and the Fielding family. Seasonable Reproof a Satire in the manner of Horace, 1735. The entry in the East Stour Registers is "W'm. Young, Curate 1731-1740." Voyage to Lisbon.
It was in the little country church of St Mary Charlcombe, a remote village some two miles from Bath, that "Henry Fielding, of ye Parish of St James in Bath, Esq., and Charlotte Cradock of ye same Parish, spinster" were married, on the 28th of November 1734.
"Hangcross tree," which once stood near the L. & S.W. station, was long locally reputed to be the gibbet on which some of the Duke's sympathisers expiated their treason. The town is nowadays chiefly dependent upon a large lace works and some collar factories. A leaden pipe carries the date 1583, though the present school was not founded till 1671. Charlcombe is a parish 2 m.
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