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Latitude: 50.749 / 50°44'56"N
Longitude: -2.292 / 2°17'31"W
OS Eastings: 379493
OS Northings: 94415
OS Grid: SY794944
Mapcode National: GBR 0Z4.WX4
Mapcode Global: FRA 6723.JVD
Plus Code: 9C2VPPX5+H5
Entry Name: Martyrs' Cottage
Listing Date: 26 January 1956
Last Amended: 10 March 1987
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1119869
English Heritage Legacy ID: 106359
ID on this website: 101119869
Location: Tolpuddle, Dorset, DT2
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Tolpuddle
Built-Up Area: Tolpuddle
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Tolpuddle St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
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TOLPUDDLE DORCHESTER ROAD
SY 7994 (North SIde)
15/170 Martyrs' Cottage
(formerly listed as
26.1.56 Martyrs' Cottages)
- I
Detached cottage, formerly 2 cottages. Probably C18. Walls part plastered cob,
part brick, colourwashed. Double Roman tile roof with crested ridge. Brick end
stacks. 2 storeys. One part-glazed oak door, and one stable door. Ground floor has
2 casements with glazing bars and one C20 casement. First floor has 2 sashes with
vertical glazing bars, one casement with commemorating house as meeting place of
the Tolpuddle Martyrs. At right end one C20 casement with glazing bars. At left
end a single storey range with gabled roof and one C20 casement. It was the
cottage of Thomas Standfield, one of the six agricultural workers who in 1834 were
transported to the Australian convict settlements for taking an oath illegaly under
the Mutiny Act of 1797 which had been designed to prevent mutinies in the navy.
They were pardoned in 1837 and returned to England in 1838. The public outcry
raised by the case was critical to the early strengthening of the Trade Union
movement. Graded for its historical importance as the meeting place of the Friendly
Society of Agricultural Labourers. Source' The story of Tolpuddle Martyrs TUC
Publications 1984.
Listing NGR: SY7949394415
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