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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Halliday of Frome, widow, who in 1741 sold it to Robert Meares of Corsley, clothier. It then consisted of the house … Court, four small closes, and 12½ a. of field land. 21 The Meares family retained it for at least a century. 22 By 1887 … build. 14 It belonged to Thomas Singer in 1783. 15 Robert Meares, a dyer, was a considerable free-holder in the …