Why The Fortunes Of Kings Weston House Changed Between 1700 And The Present Day
Kings Weston House was built on the side of a ridge probably with
idyllic pastoral views (as was the fashion in the 1700's). Kings
Weston House was probably built on this site because of those views,
it was surrounded by countryside with a few grazing cattle's of sheep
and most likely farmland visible, but the main view from the house was
the River Severn and the rolling green hills of Wales visible on the
other side. These views made it the perfect country house for a
wealthy family. Today the view from the house is very different, you
can see the built up council estates of Sea Mills and Lawrence Weston.
Where in the 1700s you used to be able to look towards the River
Severn and see countryside, today you see Avonmouth docks and the
village of Avonmouth which has grown around the docks which is part of
Bristol.
On the site of the current house there used to be a Tudor mansion and
the name Kings Weston came from the fact that it was a crown property.
It was owned by Henry the Second who gave it to Robert Fitlzharding,
the ancestor of the Berkeley family. He sold it in Queen Elizabeth's
reign to Sir Edward Wintour, who then sold it to Alderman Humphrey
Hooke of Bristol, a wealthy trade's man. Then Sir Robert Southwell
bought Kings Weston from hookes son in 1679. Sir Robert Southwell was
the sectary of state for Ireland. On his death his son Edward
Southwell followed in his footsteps and became sectary of state of
Ireland and later on became a member of Rye in 1707. As Sir Edward
Southwell had inherited the estate of Kings Weston it was probably not
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...th duties' had to be
paid (today called inheritance tax), which often meant the house or
land had to be sold to pay the tax.
During and after the First World War more jobs became available so no
one wanted to work as servants which a house like Kings Weston needs
to run, so because of the built up industrial areas around the house
and the lack of people to work there no one wanted the house.
Kings Weston house was old and damp, it was old fashioned, the roof
was leaking and it had wood worm. It was too large and expensive to
run so the grounds were sold for the building of houses in the 1920s
when Sea Mills and Shirehampton became council estates.
All of this added up to the decline of Kings Weston House, in the end
some one bought the house, renovated it and turned it into a
conference centre and restaurant.
Henry VIII's Leaving of Somerset as an Impossible Legacy To a large extent Somerset was left with an impossible because he had problems financially and diplomatically, as well as this there was religious instability. However he could have been stronger in certain situations such as in Scotland. When Henry died he left Somerset and the crown bankrupt. Henry had spent over 2 million pounds on wars with France and Scotland, as well as this Henry owed continental bakers £152 000 and had sold all monastic lands. Henry also wasted money on personal pleasures.
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