The Survey of Old Bath
Publications Connected with Widcombe and Lyncombe
Available at the Record Office and Central Library or from The Survey
Records of Bath History Volume1 (RoBH 1) contains a number of articles on the Ralph Allen Estates and the J. Charlton Map of Lyncombe and Widcombe 1799.
Articles in The Survey's Magazine
No.2 Then called' The Bath Survey ' November 1994
P.8 Connie Smith and Mike Chapman: ‘Temple of the Winds'.
P.19 Allan Keevil: 'Tracing the Fosseway at Bath'.
No.3 Now called ‘The Survey of Bath and District' June 1995
P.4 Doreen Collyer: Report on the Widcombe and Lyncombe History Study Group (WLHSG)
P.9 Connie Smith: ‘The Sandpits' (Oldfield)
P.9&10 Elizabeth Holland: Note on a presentation at Widcombe Manor.
P.11 Allan Keevil: Note on ‘Wellsway and the Former Barrack Farm'.
P13 Mark Lewcun: ‘St Thomas à Becket Church, Widcombe'. Report on excavations with diagrams.
P.16 Peter Addison: ‘Combe Down Roman Villa'.
No.4 November 1995
P.5 Doreen Collyer: Report on the WLHSG.
P.9 Elizabeth Holland: A note on Widcombe Manor.
P.22 Text of a talk by Andrew Ellis on Widcombe Manor. Later research has revised some points.
No.5 June 1996
P.8 Doreen Collyer: Report on the WLHSG.
P.16 Note on Widcombe Manor.
No.6 November 1996
P.8 Note on the Nicholas Pearson study of Widcombe Manor.
P.9 Allan Keevil: Note on the Red Lion, Odd Down.
P.19 John Hawkes: ‘Widcombe Manor Mount and Cascade'. Article on the drawing by Thomas Robins.
No.7 June 1997
P.9 Doreen Collyer: Report on the WLHSG.
P.13 Note on the houses on the ‘Bagatelle' site.
No.8 November 1997
P.3 Report on a walk round Lyncombe Vale led by John Hawkes.
P.6 Doreen Collyer: Report on the WLHSG.
P.10 Diagrams of the grounds of ‘King James' Palace', Lyncombe Vale.
P.15 Article on the houses on the ‘Bagatelle' site.
No.9 June 1998
P.7 Note on the application by Widcombe Manor to build a gymnasium. Also a note on Widcombe Week.
P.10 Note on Trevor Fawcett's publication on Lyncombe Pleasure Gardens.
P.12 Note on King James' Palace.
P.13 Notes by John Hawkes on the missing numbers on the Ralph Allen Estate Map (re printed in ROBH 1)
No.10 October 1998
P. Note on the Widcombe Association and Widcombe Week.
P.7 Note on Widcombe Manor (the owners having withdrawn the application for a gymnasium)
P.7 Doreen Collyer: Report on the WLHSG.
P.9 Note on excavations near the presumed site of the Fosseway.
P.10 Note on the publication of the J. Charlton map.
P.11 The publication of Peter Addison's book, ‘Around Combe Down'.
P.17 John Hawkes: ‘Prior's Park from the Dissolution to Ralph Allen'. (Reprinted in RoBH 1)
P.20 Stuart Burroughs: Article on the Fuller's Earth Windmill.
No.11 June 1999
P.7 Doreen Collyer: Report on the WLHSG.
P.10 Picture of Prior Park Buildings.
P.11 Pictures of the Baptist Church.
P.13 Notes on the Davis Family and South Hayes.
P.19 Barbara Collins: ‘Recollections of Former Residents of the Prior Park Road area'.
No.12 November 1999
P.12 Note on spillage of oil into Prior Park Buildings watercourse.
P.20 Miriam and Ken Evans: ‘Recollections of Widcombe and Widcombe Baptist Church'.
P.22 Angela Marks: ‘A Brief Overview of Oldfield Park'.
P.31 Mike Chapman: ‘The Prior's Fair at Holloway' as part of an article on Bath Fairs.
No.13 June 2000
P.5 A note on Widcombe Association's Millennium Map
P.6 Grants to The Paragon School, Lyncombe Vale
P.14 Letter from Don Lovell on the R.S.P.C.A. clinic. The poem by the Holloway trough.
No.14 November 2000
P.11 Bath Record Office has acquired a copy of Vachell's The Golden House, supposedly based on Widcombe Manor.
P.20 Photo of an alley off Gordon Road
No.15 June 2001
P.7 Report on a geological meeting of the WLHSG
No.16 June 2001
P.8 Lyn Coles: Report on the WLHSG
P.19 Allan Keevil: ‘Ingle Brook'.
P.21 Guy Whitmarsh: ‘A Brief Social History of a Late Georgian Terrace: Prior Park Cottage'.
No.17 November 2002
Cover and P.16: Photo of the former Poor House at the foot of Lyncombe Hill'.
P.24 John Hawkes: Article on 1839 sale particulars of Widcombe Manor.
P.45 Elizabeth Holland: ‘Widcombe Manor, Lyncombe Hall, and the Chapman family of Bath'.
No.18 November 2003
Cover picture: St Thomas a Becket.
P.13 Report on the WLHSG
P.33 John Hawkes: ‘The Hermitage or Garden House by Widcombe Church'.
N0.19 November 2004
P.15 Report on the WLHSG
P.21 Note on Widcombe Manor (various documents relating to the site)
No.20 October 2005
P.4 Ianto Wain: Report on the Combe Down Mines.
P.19 Rosemary Simmons: ‘Combe Down Buildings Record'.
P.35 Alistair Durie: ‘Lyncombe and Widcombe Poor Houses'.
No.21 October 2006
P.5 Peter Davenport: note on The Gothick Temple, Prior Park.
Ditto: The De Montalt Paper Mill.
P.6 Note on St Martin's Hospital
P.11 Report on the WLHSG
P.22 W.H.A. Chislett: ‘Frederick Edward Weatherly' ( for a time Weatherly lived at Combe Down)
P.30 Doreen Collyer: ‘What did the 19 th Century do for Widcombe?'
No. 22 October 2007
P.7 A note on the proposed Holloway study.
P.11 Report on the WLHSG
P.18 Note on the Time Team programme on Prior Park mansion gardens.
P.22 W.H.A.Chislett: ‘Bath Union Workhouse, the Chapel, John Plass and St Martin's Hospital'.
P.32 Portraits of two 18 th century owners of Lyncombe Hall, then Lyncombe Farm.
P.63 Photograph of 'Allotments north of Englishcombe Lane'.
No.23 October 2008
P.2 Note on TV programme showing Widcombe Manor.
P.3 Sale of the Toilet Block by Ha'penny Bridge.
P.9 Report on the WLHSG.
P.23 Allan Keevil: ‘The Saxon Boundary of Clifton' with colour centre spread.
P.40 Trevor Fawcett: ‘William Street: an Apothecary's Progress'.
Also Lyncombe Spa
Back Cover: Drawing of St Mark's Church by Mike Chapman.