Little Sodbury Manor hosts King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

During their 1535 summer progress, King Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn stayed at Little Sodbury. The manor, originally built in the 15^th century, was the home of Sir John Walsh and his wife.

The Walshes had employed William Tyndale “in the awkward days before he had fled abroad to escape Wolsey’s persecution” (Starkey, Pg. 532). Tradition has him beginning his translation of the bible in one of the bedrooms.

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