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Excerpt from Wiltshire Notes and Queries, Vol. 2: An Illustrated Quarterly Antiquarian and Genealogical Magazine; 1896-1898 Of these new houses, two, Restrop and the Church Farm, still remain unaltered, save in unimportant particulars, from the original design. That there were others built at the same time in the parish is unquestionable (although vestiges of the work of that period only appear in two other farmhouses, viz. 2 - Pevenhill Farm and the Ponds at Purton Stoke), for the records show that many families of good position were then residing in Purton. Of the early history of restrop we know nothing. Who was the builder and who were the first resi dents are questions that cannot yet be answered. There is a bare mention of the name, as a boundary, in a deed relating to the general inclosure, but beyond that there is nothing to tell, and yet it is as pure and good a specimen of Elizabethan architecture as could be found. The Brydges family owned the Church Farm1 and also the historic Nele's Place; the Sadlers were at Perenhill, and the Maskelynes at the Down. The Digges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.