Alms Houses - Bunny by oldjosh

Alms Houses - Bunny

Designed and built by Sir Thomas Parkyns in 1700. Over the door is his coat of arms and initials. The building was designed as a school and alms house for four poor widows, Symmetrically pleasing and complete with above the ground floor door and windows, "learning has no enemy except ignorance" and " no one leaves here without knowledge of arithmetic"
Bunny
The Saxons settled in this marshy poorly drained but well vegetated land. The settlement was called Bune meaning reed. The village was later called Bonei, Boneya and in the last century Bunney.
Nothing to do with Rabbits
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