Lacock

51.4125 - 2.1183333333333Koordinaten: 51 ° 25 ' N, 2 ° 7' W

Lacock is a village east of Bath in the English county of Wiltshire and about 5 km from Chippenham. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon " Lacuc " which means " small stream " means the stream Bide which is meant. The village belongs almost entirely to the National Trust.

History

• 1000 - The Normans built the first church.
• 1232 - The Countess of Salisbury Ela founded in memory of her husband William Longespée, an illegitimate son of King Henry II, a monastery for women and girls.
• 13th to 18th century - Construction of houses in the village who still are in some cases today.
• 14th century - Conversion of Norman St. Cyriac 's Church.
• 14th to 18th century - Economic blossom by the wool trade.
• 1539 - Dissolution of the monastery and sale to William Sharington. Demolition of the Abbey Church and reconstruction of the monastery to the mansion.
• 1753 - The Family Fox Talbot gives the plant its present appearance.
• 1835 - William Henry Fox Talbot invented in Lacock Abbey, the negative photography.
• 1944 - village and manor come to the National Trust. Members of the Talbot family continues to inhabit parts of the manor of Lacock Abbey.

Film

Lacock has been repeatedly used as a film set, in particular to the BBC's Pride and Prejudice (1995) and for several Harry Potter films, where above all Lacock Abbey served as a backdrop for some of the interior shots of the wizarding school Hogwarts.