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to provide elementary education for children from the hamlet and surrounding area. Built in the style of a chapel it doubled up as the church on
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508:, Op. 85. These works were said to be inspired by the local woods and by a strange legend of a clump of trees said to be the remains of Spanish monks who had engaged in sacrilegious ceremonies in the park and been struck by lightning. A film, "Elgar's Tenth Muse", starring
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402:, an Australian artist twenty years his junior. Later residents included Miss Ethel West (d.1950) and her companion Miss Metherell who lived in Bedham Cottage - Miss Metherell using the pen name Rhoda Leigh wrote a fictional account of the hamlet,
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considered the area for practising helicopter insertions of freight due to the hilly wooded nature of the area. The area was however dropped at the 7th of 10 stages of evaluation of areas across the U.K.
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between 1917 and 1921, at a time when Elgar was convalescing. During these years Elgar enjoyed learning craft skills from the woodmen at
Flexham Park and composed his last four great works - the
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ink pots removed from the desks. In the 1930s services would be held there once or twice a month by the Rector of
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mistress Violet Hunt who "tracked them down in Bedham and hung over the fence of their cottage watching them..."
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recounts much Bedham history centred on Mants, the cottage where its author
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