The Miles Charity by Rev. Brian Carne
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Blankets for Christmas
In 1839 the Reverend Richard Miles established a charity to provide blankets and bed linen every Christmas to the deserving poor of the parish of Lydiard Tregoze. The 'blanket' charity was to last for all time, a brass plate, high up on the south wall of the nave records the establishment of the charity.
The records recording the distribution of blankets is patchy, in some years vouchers were given instead. In 1949 when the camp was turned into housing, the numbers of deserving increased beyond the means of the charity, and they restricted the distribution to the elderly residents. The charity was giving out vouchers instead of blankets into the 1970s, hopefully it will continue 'forever' as the founder wished.
See Items of Interest for the brass plate and Miles memorial tablet in St. Mary's Lydiard Tregoze.
- Year:
- 1971
- Creator:
- Rev. Brian Carne
- Type:
- Research Report Article
- Taken from:
- Report No. 4
- Owner:
- Friends of Lydiard Park
- Copyright:
- Friends of Lydiard Park
- Last updated on:
- Friday 3rd December 2021
