Fulbeck
Birthplace of Thomas Watson, baptised 20 October 1789, the son of Thomas Watson and Mary Capp who were married there 14 December 1784.
Population: 483 (1991) map
Fulbeck Hall is a friendly and intimate country house set in glorious gardens overlooking the wide landscape of the Trent Vale. This much altered house begun in Tudor times, but now largely Georgian in character features a paneled hall, good furniture pieces, and a drawing room with large bay windows.
In 1940 Fulbeck Hall belonged to Colonel William Fane, grandfather of the present owner. His letter to the War Office offering his house to the military crossed with one from the War Office requisitioning it for their use. The assualt to capture the infamous Bridge too Far at Arnhem, was planned here before the ill fated airborne attack was made on 17th September 1944. Each year an Arnhem memorial service is held on the third or fourth Sunday in September.
A Direction, or Preparative to the Study of the Law (1620), written by William Fulbeck, provides an especially interesting perspective of the appropriateness of traditional rhetorical and classical theories of rhetoric in the practice of English common law.
FULBECK from the Viking words beck, meaning stream and ful, meaning dirty or foul - the Danes and Anglo-Saxons sailed up the Trent to attack England.