2023

SU0395 : Bridleway to the Cotswold Community, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire

taken 11 months ago, near to Shorncote, Gloucestershire, England

Bridleway to the Cotswold Community, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire
Bridleway to the Cotswold Community, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire
The bridleway is still a right of way, not that this stops security guards with dogs patrolling the site taking an interest in passing photographers.
Cotswold Community, Ashton Keynes

The now-defunct Cotswold Community occupied a former farm. It had a complex history starting in the 1930s when a group of German Christians calling themselves the Bruderhof seeking refuge from Hitler's Germany settled here. In the early 1940s the Germans were, perhaps unfairly, offered the choice of being interned or being resettled to the Americas and the site was taken over by the UK Government and converted into an 'Approved School', a polite term for a penal institute for boys who had transgressed in some way and been punished by the courts. In 1973 Approved Schools, or this one at least, became 'Community Homes with Education'. It closed in 2011 and the site became derelict.


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SU0395, 13 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Brian Robert Marshall   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 20 April, 2023   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 20 April, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 0365 9536 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:39.4209N 1:56.9180W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 03642 95261
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