Stanford Bridge, The Village c.1960
Photo ref: S387001
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Photo ref: S387001
Photo of Stanford Bridge, The Village c.1960

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Stanford's rectory was the birthplace in 1775 of the author and moralist Mrs Sherwood, whose novel 'The Fairchild Family' was a popular improving text with the more rigidly censorious readers of Regency and early Victorian society. After a long period in India, Mrs Sherwood returned to Worcestershire and opened a school for young ladies.

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