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Extract from the Lacock Travel Guides:
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, ten miles northwest of Devizes, is the perfect English feudal village, albeit one gentrified by the National Trust to within a hair's breadth of natural life, and besieged by tourists all summer. Appropriately for so photogenic a spot, it has a fascinating museum dedicated to the founding father of photography, Henry Fox Talbot, a member of the dynasty which has lived in the local
Abbey
since it passed to Sir William Sharington on the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. Sir William's descendant, William Henry Fox Talbot, was the first to produce a photographic negative, and the
Fox Talbot Museum
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read the whole Lacock Travel Guides...
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