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| | Headley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The workhouse building in Headley, now known as Headley Grange, has another claim to fame - it was where Led Zeppelin wrote and recorded 'Stairway to Heaven' in the early 1970s. |
 | | Although termed a 'union' workhouse itself (the Headley 'House of Industry' was built in 1795 at an estimated cost of some £1,500 for the parishes of Headley, Bramshott and Kingsley, "to shelter their infirm, aged paupers, and orphan or illegitimate children"), |
 | | After the 1830 riot, it was repaired, and the 1841, 51 and 61 censuses all show it still being used as a workhouse; it was sold in 1870 to a builder for £420, who converted it into a private house, now known as Headley Grange. |
| www.institutions.org.uk /workhouses/england/hants/headley_workhouse.htm (184 words) |
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