May 24: We were driven from Tetbury to Bradford-on-Avon, with an interesting two hour stop at Lacock along the way. Lacock is notable for two main things: Lacock Abbey, founded in the early 13th C and lived in continuously until 1944, when it and its surrounding lands were given to the National Trust; and the Fox Talbot Museum of Photography. Fox Talbot invented the negative process in photography in 1834 and patented it in 1839. He and his family lived for most of his life in the Abbey building.
Display in the Fox Talbot Museum
A wing of Lacock Abbey behind the trees
One of the many striking trees we've seen on this trip
Ceiling of one of the public rooms in the Abbey
The Abbey is full of books, many presumably used by Fox Talbot.
In Bradford-on-Avon, a building along the river
The Tithe Barn, where farmers deposited 1/10 of their produce, which was supposedly distributed by the church to the poor.
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