36 Bradford-upon-Avon. 
Charity Commissioners visited our town, about 25 years ago, they 
elicited from some old people a little information respecting it, and 
in their report they state their belief that there was truth in the 
tradition that then prevailed (as it still does to the present day) 
that the chapel-bell was removed to Winsley Church. Now the 
hospital at the foot of the bridge is called, in old deeds, the Hospi- 
tal of St. Margaret,! and its memorial is preserved in the street 
which is still called St. Margaret street, and in Morgan’s Hill, 
which, as late as 1724, was called St. Margaret’s Hill. From the 
same deeds, confirmed by later documents, we find that the street 
leading from about where is now the entrance to the railroad station 
to the Old Women’s Almshouse was called St. Catherine street,” 
probably from the dedication of the chapel in question. In Andrews 
and Dury’s map of Wiltshire (1770), we find a spot marked as 
“ The Chapel,” though from the way in which those words are - 
printed, it is difficult to point out with exactness the precise spot 
indicated. ; 
It may be mentioned, as confirmatory of this opinion, that there 
is still the remnant of the observance of a holiday on St. Catherine’s 
day. Within a few years only, cakes called cattern-cakes were made 
in considerable numbers and sent by the bakers to their customers. 
Many of the old people reckon their ages by the festival of this 
Saint. A very short time ago an old bed-ridden woman said to 
the writer of this paper in true Wiltshire, and, we may add, very 
1 By a deed dated 37 Henry VI., Philip Stone conveys to Nicholas Hall one 
acre of arable land, lying ‘‘in fine ville de Bradeford juxta grangiam Dne Ab- 
batiss. de Shaston ex parte orientali,” and which is further described as being 
between two pieces of land belonging to the said Nicholas Hall, one of which 
‘“‘abuttat super Je Longhegge,” and the other, ‘‘super viam que ducit versus 
hospitale Ste Margarete.” In the will of Henry Long, Esq. of Wraxhall, 1490, 
he bequeaths,—“‘ pauperibus Domus Sancte Margarete de Bradford, vis viij*.” 
2 The following extract is from an account of lands, &c., belonging to the 
manor (c. 1720).—‘‘ Katherine Street. John Harvey holdeth by copy dated 5th 
May, 1715, granted him by Hon. Ann Lady Powlett during the lives of John 
Harvey and others, and during the widowhood of Ann relict of Robert Harvey, 
one Cottage, Barne, and Reek Barton: the Highway east and Culverclose west.” 
This sufficiently indicates the correctness of the statement above, as to where 
St. Catherine street lay. [For this and other valuable information the writer 
was indebted to the late Mr. John Bush. ] 
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