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Eagle House (suffragette's rest)
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Eagle House is a Grade II* listed building in Batheaston, Somerset, near Bath.[2] Before World War I the house had extensive grounds.
Eagle House | |
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General information | |
Location | Batheaston |
Country | England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 51°24′49″N 2°19′06″W |
Designations | Grade II listed[1] |
When Emily Blathwayt and her husband Colonel Linley Blathwayt owned the house, its summerhouse was used, from 1909 to 1912, as a refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes. It became known as the Suffragette's Rest or Suffragette's Retreat. Emily Blathwayt was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union.
Between April 1909 and July 1911, trees were planted in the grounds to commemorate individual suffragettes; at least 47 were planted in a two-acre (8094 m2) site.[2] Known as Annie's Arboretum, after Annie Kenney, the trees were destroyed in the 1960s when a council estate was built. Only one tree, an Austrian Pine planted in 1909 by Rose Lamartine Yates, remains.[3]