It is said that he was a violent man who once ‘presenting a pistol loaded with bullets and cock’t to her breast’ threatening to shoot her dead. Her first husband, Edmund Ashfield, died young and Eleanor married Richard Glanville a Lincolnshire landowner, but this marriage soon broke down, when Glanville found a new partner. Within this legacy she inherited Tickenham Court, and it became her home. Eleanor was the daughter of a Roundhead major, William Goodricke, who left her a considerable fortune on his death. This grade II listed building, which is now owned by Stewart Plant, is celebrated as the ancestral home of Eleanor Glanville (b. Tickenham Court, built in about 1400, lies 1 km to the west of Moorend Spout (ST347715). © James Packer, reproduced with permission. Glanville Fritillary on Red Valerian, photographed at Sand Point on the Somerset coast.
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