General view of 'The Chesnut Tree' a house in the Whiteway Colony, Gloucestershire

Date:
5 Sep 1970
Location:
The Chestnut Tree, Miserden, Whiteway Colony, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Reference:
IMP01/01/0195
Type:
Photograph (Transparency)
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Description

The Whiteway Colony was a community founded in 1898 by Quaker journalist Samuel Veale Bracher and other followers of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's utopian socialist philosophy with a vision to create a self-sufficient society with principles of equality, pacifism and vegetarianism. Bracher purchased 41 acres of land and burned the property deeds as a symbolic rejection of private property and in 1955 a court ruling upheld that nobody owned legal title to the land, it being held in common by the colonists.

Content

This is part of the Series: IMP01/01 Ian M Parsons Slide Collection - English, Welsh and Scottish Locations; within the Collection: IMP01 Ian M Parsons Slide Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Parsons, Ian Mesnard

Keywords

Early 20th Century House