Glaston

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Glaston
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Glaston
Location within Rutland
Area1.83 sq mi (4.7 km2)  [1]
Population185  2001 Census [2]
•  Density 101/sq mi (39/km2)
OS grid reference SK896005
•  London 79 miles (127 km) SSE
Unitary authority
Shire county
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town OAKHAM
Postcode district LE15
Dialling code 01572
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Rutland
52°35′42″N0°40′41″W / 52.595°N 0.678°W / 52.595; -0.678
The cartwash Village Pond, Glaston - geograph.org.uk - 364737.jpg
The cartwash
The north portal of Glaston Tunnel The north portal of Glaston Tunnel - geograph.org.uk - 3539249.jpg
The north portal of Glaston Tunnel

Glaston is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish remained unchanged between the 2001 and the 2011 censuses.

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The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Glathr'. [3]

Glaston is about 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) south of Rutland Water and is situated on the A47, 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) east of Uppingham. There are approximately 80 houses in total with one public house, The Old Pheasant (previously the Monckton Arms) on Main Road (A47), and a flooring warehouse, Glaston Carpets. There is an active parish meeting that is held once a month and villagers are trying to get a bypass for the village.

A rectangular pond is a cartwash of circa 1740, used for soaking cartwheels to prevent the wood shrinking from iron tyres and also for horses' hooves to prevent hardening. [4]

Glaston railway tunnel, 1 mile 82 yards in length, is located within the parish, to the east of the village.

4 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers were billeted in Glaston and at Bisbrooke Hall in the months before Operation Market Garden in September 1944. A memorial in the parish church records 19 names. [5]

St Andrew's Church

St Andrew's Church, Glaston, the Church of England parish church, is a Grade II* listed building. [6] In 1663 the advowson was given to Peterhouse, Cambridge by Bernard Hale, the Master of the college. Masters of Peterhouse were Rector of Glaston until 1867, when the rectory was detached from the headship by new college statutes.

St Andrew's suffered from heritage crime in 2018 and was placed on the Heritage at Risk Register. [7]

Early history

Archaeologists working in the parish in 2000 discovered a late Pleistocene (c. 30,000 b.p.) faunal assemblage in association with an Upper Palaeolithic flint "leafpoint". [8]

Wellington and Colley

Glaston has a connection with the Duke of Wellington. Although his family adopted the name Wesley or Wellesley, their original name was Colley, and they were possibly descended from the English-born judge Robert Cowley or Colley who came to Ireland about 1505-06. [9] Robert was almost certainly born in Glaston, where the Colley family were Lords of the Manor from about 1400. [10] Richard Colley (c. 1690 – 1758), the grandfather of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, changed his surname to Wesley in 1728 when he inherited estates on the death of his cousin, Garret Wesley but was supposed to add the last name of Wellesley not Wesley as Garrets father was Garret Wellesley so Richard could carry on the Wellesley Coat of Arms to get the inheritance, this is why the Duke & his brother corrected the last name from Wesley to Wellesley while in India. [11]

Colley Cibber (1671–1757), English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate was the eldest child of Jane née Colley, from the Glaston family. [12] [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
  2. ↑ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
  3. ↑ "Key to English Place-names".
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Cartwash (Grade II) (1236505)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "4 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers, Arnhem Roll of Honour". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museum . Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Andrew (Grade II*) (1264584)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Church of St Andrew, Church Lane, Glaston - Rutland (UA)". Historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/. Historic England . Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "Glaston Early Upper Palaeolithic Project". University of Leicester Archaeological Services. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
  9. ↑ Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.203
  10. ↑ Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 1890 p.564
  11. ↑ Cokayne 2000 , p. 235.
  12. ↑ Ashley, L. R. N. (1965), Colley Cibber, New York: Twayne p. 17
  13. ↑ Barker, R. H. (1939), Mr Cibber of Drury Lane, New York: Columbia University Press, OCLC   2207342 p. 4

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