Maynard Terrace

Maynard Terrace
Maynard Terrace
	Image of Maynard Terrace from around 1900
Etymology	Maynard Greville
General information
Type	Miner's cottages
Town or city	Clutton
Country	United Kingdom

Last updated November 07, 2019

Maynard Terrace is a relatively untouched set of traditional miner's cottages with a unique history, built on the edge of the village of Clutton, Somerset by Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick.

Clutton is a village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in Somerset in the Bath and North East Somerset Council area on the A37 road. It is located 10 miles from Bristol and Bath, very near Temple Cloud. The nearest town is Midsomer Norton. The parish which has a population of 1,602 includes the hamlet of Breach.

Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, styled Lord Brooke until 1893, was a British Conservative politician.

History

Francis Greville owned the Clutton Collieries which were part of the Somerset Coalfield and many of his workers lived in Clutton. Local residents had organised and signed a petition pressing him to supply suitable accommodation for the miners. As Francis was anxious that his miners "should be able to get to work as dry as possible", he had a row of cottages built to accommodate them on Greyfield Colliery Road near the pit.^[1] In 1900 the cottages were completed and named after Maynard Greville, his 4th child, and colloquially known as Maynard's Terrace.^[2] Over time, the road name changed to Maynard Terrace.

Somerset Coalfield coal mining region in south west England

The Somerset Coalfield in northern Somerset, England is an area where coal was mined from the 15th century until 1973. It is part of a larger coalfield which stretched into southern Gloucestershire. The Somerset coalfield stretched from Cromhall in the north to the Mendip Hills in the south, and from Bath in the east to Nailsea in the west, a total area of about 240 square miles (622 km²). Most of the pits on the coalfield were concentrated in the Cam Brook, Wellow Brook and Nettlebridge Valleys and around Radstock and Farrington Gurney. The pits were grouped geographically, with clusters of pits close together working the same coal seams often under the same ownership. Many pits shared the trackways and tramways which connected them to the Somerset Coal Canal or railways for distribution.

The Earl's wife was Daisy Greville. She is usually best known as a long term mistress of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII and the inspiration behind the song Daisy, Daisy. However, she was also a staunch supporter of social reform and had a keen interest in the welfare of her husband’s employees and the children of Clutton. Both she and her husband were frequent visitors to Clutton. In 1902 she laid the foundation stone of the current village primary school and officially opened the school in 1903.^[3] Her school opening speech was reported in the Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer. The report noted that she personally donated £5 to the school library and suggested that the building should be put to useful purpose in the evenings both social and recreative. It was her wish to see "the mining element represented on the managing authority of the school seeing that the majority of the children will come from that class of parent".^[4]

Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick was a campaigning socialist who supported many schemes to aid the less well off in education, housing, employment, and pay. She established colleges for the education of women in agriculture and market gardening, first in Reading, then in Studley. She established a needlework school and employment scheme in Essex as well as using her ancestral homes to host events and schemes for the benefit of her tenants and workers. She was a long-term confidant or mistress to the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.

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Maynard Terrace is bounded on one side by a disused railway siding that linked the Earl's Greyfield Colliery with the now disused Clutton mainline railway station, and on the other side by a set of fields containing historic bell pits. Mining in Clutton was first reported in 1610.^[5]

The engines used to move the coal along the siding were named Francis and Daisy, after the Earl and his wife.

The miners cottages on Maynard Terrace are classed as undesignated heritage assets.

In 2013 outline planning application to build 36 new homes in an unused field opposite Maynard Terrace was approved.^[6]

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References

↑ High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records — written and transcribed by Michael L. Browning
↑ "Greyfield Colliery" (PDF). High Littleton History. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
↑ "Our School". Clutton School. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
↑ 5 Arches — Radstock, Midsomer Norton & District Mining Society Issue number 26 Summer 1996
↑ "Monument No. 200634". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
↑ Norbury, SG (3 January 2014). "Reactions to Clutton housing appeal". Somerset Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

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[1] High Littleton & Hallatrow History and Parish Records — written and transcribed by Michael L. Browning

[2] "Greyfield Colliery" (PDF). High Littleton History. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

[3] "Our School". Clutton School. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

[4] 5 Arches — Radstock, Midsomer Norton & District Mining Society Issue number 26 Summer 1996

[5] "Monument No. 200634". Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

[6] Norbury, SG (3 January 2014). "Reactions to Clutton housing appeal". Somerset Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2013.