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Wooley House, Bradford-upon-Avon
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Bradford
on Avon is a small Medieval Market
Town, which rose to riches on wool trades,
long since gone. The town built on Roman
Remains sits astride a long bend in the
River Avon. An ancient bridge and adjacent
square pinpoint the centre.
Medieval cottages
and late Georgian buildings
populate the centre with parks, public
buildings, shops, churches, pubs and restaurants.
Steep banks rising from the river were
later tastefully developed with successive
layers of period houses and finally at
the tops with more modern properties.
Woolley House,
a Georgian Town House, is in the centre
of the town on the main road leading out
of the town. Situated on Woolley Street
it is part of a Georgian terrace of distinction
in the midst of quality antique shops.
If you enjoy antiques start with Moxham’s
across the street on the next corner.
Bath
is only 7 miles away. Bradford on Avon
in recent years has attracted much finery
from Bath and is now increasingly an outpost
for a quieter life, a place to stay but
an easy commute to Bath’s theatres,
restaurants, antiquities and fine shops.
