Midway Manor is a country house and farm in Wingfield parish, about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, England.
[citation needed] In about 1723, the Midway estate was the property of the Shrapnel family who were prosperous cloth merchants from Bradford on Avon.
[3] The house had stone cannonballs mounted in various places on the front façade, and a carving of the Shrapnel shell exploding with the Latin inscription Ratio Ultima Regum ("the Last Argument of Kings"), a phrase Louis XIV of France had cast on the cannons of his armies.
[4] These include the battles of Waterloo, Talavera, the Kyber Pass, Salamanca, San Sebastian, Bidassoa, Bella Formosa, Tsage, Abyssinia, Monte Video, Maida, Ghuzznee (Ghazni), Bussaco, Table Bay, Kioze as well as the Crimean and Burmese wars.
[6] In 1892, the manor became the property of Henry Baynton[7] who removed the front façade, necessitating an almost complete rebuilding of the house[8] with stone provided from the barns which were then demolished.