Eagle House

Eagle House is a Grade II* listed building in Batheaston, Somerset, near Bath. Before World War I the house had extensive grounds. When Emily Blathwayt and her husband Colonel Linley Blathwayt owned the house, its summerhouse was used, from 1909 to 1912, as a refuge for suffragettes who had been released from prison after hunger strikes. It became known as the Suffragette's Rest or Suffragette's Retreat. Emily Blathwayt was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union. Between April 1909 and July 1911, trees were planted in the grounds to commemorate individual suffragettes, and at least 47 were planted in a 2-acre (0.81 ha) site. Known as Annie's Arboretum, after Annie Kenney, the trees were destroyed in the 1960s when a housing estate was built. Only one tree remains, an Austrian pine planted in 1909 by Rose Lamartine Yates.