Wrington

Also planned is a long-distance walk from Oxford through Malmesbury and on to Wrington in Somerset, birthplace of John Locke, another 17th-century philosophical colossus.

Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' Steven Morris 2010

Locke was born in Wrington to Puritan parents of modest means.

John Locke Uzgalis, William 2007

Wrington at the tiller in one, Jones, his lieutenant, steering the other.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

[Greek: ta diapheronta]; or divine characters, in two parts, will have an interest for Bristol readers; it is "by that late burning and shining lamp, Master Samuel Crook, B.D., late Pastor of Wrington in Somerset, who being dead yet speaketh."

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Wrington hailed the other boats, and the detectives returned to the barge.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

Almost simultaneously Foyle, Green, and Wrington flung themselves in pursuit.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

Rutter's delineations of a part of Somersetshire, he gives a neat wood-cut of the cottage at Wrington, wherein Locke was born, and he informs us, that in the garden belonging to Mrs. Hannah More, near that village, she has placed an urn commemorative of Locke, which was a gift to her from the justly celebrated Mrs. Montague.

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

Yet Wrington had solved it, and the record, which had never seen the light of publicity, was hidden in the archives of the service.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

[9] The Rev. William Leeves, of Wrington, to whose tune the ballad is now sung.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

It was some time before Wrington, the divisional detective-inspector at the head of the detective staff of the Thames Division, could be found, for like other branches of the C.I.D. he and his men did their work systematically, and usually left their office at nine o'clock only to return at six.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest