Black Bourton
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Black Bourton is a village and civil parish about 2 miles south of Carterton, Oxfordshire. The village is on Black Bourton Brook, a tributary of the River Thames. The 2011 Census recorded the parish p
St Mary the Virgin parish church
Commonwealth War Graves section of St Mary's parish churchyard
Elizabethan monument in St Mary's parish church for Eleanor Hungerford, who died in 1592
The Vines hotel and restaurant
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adult and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel
Black Bourton
…Methodist congregation was established in the village in the 19th century and built its own red brick chapel in 1861. The influential romantic novelist Maria Edgeworth was born in Black Bourton in 1767. A cul-de-sac in Carterton is named "Edgeworth Drive" after her. The painter William Turner was born in Black Bourton…
Portrait by John Downman, 1807
Edgeworthstown House, Ireland
Maria Edgeworth, c. 1841
Miniature of Edgeworth by Adam Buck, c. 1790