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Bremhill
Bremhill is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about northwest of Calne and east of Chippenham. The name originates from '' 'Bramble hill'.'' Geography Bremhill civil parish is a rural area which stretches northeast some from the eastern boundary of the Chippenham built-up area. It includes the hamlets of Avon, Bremhill Wick, Charlcutt, East Tytherton, Low Bridge, Foxham, Spirthill, Stanley, Tytherton Lucas and West End, and part of the hamlet of Ratford. The River Avon forms part of the western boundary of the parish, where it is joined by the Marden which crosses the parish from the south. The parish has many smaller tributaries of the Avon, including Pudding Brook, which joins the Marden south of Tytherton Lucas; the Cade Burna, which gives its name to Cadenham Manor; and the Cat Brook. Bencroft Hill Meadows, in the south of the parish, is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. History Æthelstan gave land at Bremhill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxham, Wiltshire
Foxham is a village in Bremhill civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Chippenham and a similar distance northwest of Calne. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a small settlement of ten households at Cadenham, close to the east end of present-day Foxham. The manor house, Cadenham Manor, is a house of five bays built in the second half of the 17th century. It replaces an earlier house, from which part of a window-head survives in the north porch that was added in the 20th century.Pevsner & Cherry, page 251 The manor was owned by a branch of the Hungerford family, including George Hungerford (1637-1712). Church and chapel There is a record of Foxham being a chapelry of the parish of Bremhill and Highway by 1219.Pugh & Crittall, 1953, pages 197-198 The present Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist was designed by the Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield and built in 1878–81. The church is Grade II* listed, and has a stained g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Heath's Causeway
Maud Heath's Causeway is a pathway dating from the 15th century in rural Wiltshire, England. On both sides of its crossing of the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, just west of Kellaways, the path rises above the floodplain on sixty-four brick arches (built 1812, largely reconstructed in the 20th century) alongside an undistinguished country road between Bremhill and Langley Burrell. The causeway is the gift of the eponymous Maud Heath, who made her living carrying eggs to market at Chippenham. She was a widow and childless, and when she died she left money to improve and maintain the path along which she had tramped to market several times a week for most of her life. Over five hundred years later, the charity still maintains the path out of her bequest. Since 1960, the raised section has been Listed building#England and Wales, listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. A brief guide to the causeway was written by K.R. Clew in 1982. Monuments Near the east bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Tytherton
East Tytherton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bremhill in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Chippenham, which lies approximately south-west from the hamlet. Geography East Tytherton is located on a minor road in a valley some northeast of Chippenham and a similar distance northwest of Calne in the civil parish of Bremhill. It has a rectangular village green around which the grey stone manor and the other residences are clustered. One timber-framed house has painted brick walls and a corrugated iron roof. History A house at East Tytherton was bought by preacher John Cennick in 1742 and a Moravian community was founded in 1745; a chapel, manse and church cottage were built for the community. Pevsner describes the Moravian settlement and "..the School House, dated 1785.." built behind the existing chapel buildings as The Single Sisters' Choir House. Early residents included Leonora Carr and 4 other ex-slaves from Antigua who lived at the Singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tytherton Lucas
Tytherton Lucas is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bremhill in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Chippenham, which lies approximately south-west from the hamlet. The River Avon passes to the west, and the Cat Brook and Cade Burma streams flow just to the north. History Historically, Tytherton Lucas belonged to the Hundred of Chippenham. The hamlet is documented in the Domesday Book of 1086, which documents that Burghelm (Borel) held two hides of land and a William Hard owned four hides in Terintone or Tedlinton. In the 14th century, William Percehay, John Turpyn and Walter Scudamore held the Tytherton Knight's Fee, serving the Crown with feudal obligations. In around 1150, the tithes of Tytherton and Chippenham were granted to Monkton Farleigh Priory by Empress Matilda. By 1650, the local chapel had fallen into a dilapidated state, and the parishioners wished opted to form a new independent parish with East Tytherton, Bremhill and Langley Burre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratford
Ratford is a hamlet near Calne in the county of Wiltshire, England, with a population of approximately 50. It lies around north of the A4 national route, northwest of Calne on a minor road towards Bremhill, away. Other nearby settlements include the villages of Derry Hill and Studley. The hamlet surrounds a crossing of the Cowage Brook, a tributary of the River Marden; the Cowage Brook is joined here by Fisher's Brook. Land to the south of Cowage Brook is in the civil parish of Calne Without while land to the north is in Bremhill parish. The first houses were probably built here in the late 17th century or early 18th. The single-arch stone bridge over the brook is probably from the late 18th century. Some cottages were built in the 19th century by the Bowood estate. The name Rattle was used in the past, appearing on the 1925 Ordnance Survey map, but by 1938 the name Ratford was is use. The local pub is the ''Dumb Post Inn'', on the north side of Ratford on the lane to Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirthill
Spirthill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bremhill in Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ..., England, to the south of Lyneham. It is on top of a hill with views over the Avon valley and the towns of Calne and Chippenham can be seen from some points. It is a quiet community of farmland and residential housing spread out along a narrow and unlit lane. There are 19 homes in the hamlet, including five farms with livestock or arable crops. The area was once part of the nearby Bowood Estate and can trace historical links back to the 16th Century. It is believed there were farms in the area around the Domesday time or before. There are no significant industrial activities in the hamlet and development is strictly controlled by local policy. A Wesleyan Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Wiltshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
North Wiltshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by James Gray, a Conservative. In the period 1832–1983, this was an alternative name for Chippenham or the Northern Division of Wiltshire and as Chippenham dates to the original countrywide Parliament, the Model Parliament, this period is covered in more detail in that article. In 2016 it was announced that the North Wiltshire constituency would be scrapped as part of the planned 2018 Constituency Reforms. Boundaries 1832–1885: The Hundreds of Chippenham, North Damerham, Bradford, Melksham, Potterne and Cannings, Calne, Selkley, Ramsbury, Whorwelsdown, Swanborough, Highworth, Cricklade and Staple, Kingsbridge, and Malmesbury. 1983–1997: The District of North Wiltshire. 1997–2010: The District of North Wiltshire wards of Allington, Ashton Keynes, Audley, Avon, Box, Bremhill, Brinkworth, Colerne, Corsham, Crudwell, Hill Rise, Hilmarton, Kington Langley, Kington St Micha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlcutt
Charlcutt is a hamlet in the county of Wiltshire, England, northwest of Calne. It is part of the civil parish of Bremhill. Charlcutt is home to twenty households spread over an area of one mile along the ridge of the hill. Unusually, Charlcutt House is situated at the bottom of the hill, beneath the other dwellings. There are no religious buildings with the nearest chapel a mile away in neighbouring Spirthill Spirthill is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bremhill in Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwe ... (now converted into a home). Hamlets in Wiltshire {{Wiltshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lisle Bowles
William Lisle Bowles (24 September 17627 April 1850) was an English priest, poet and critic. Life and career Bowles was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of 14 he entered Winchester College, where the headmaster at the time was Dr Joseph Warton. In 1781 Bowles left as captain of the school, and went on to Trinity College, Oxford, where he had won a scholarship. Two years later he won the Chancellor's prize for Latin verse. Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles (1652–1742), grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles (1696–1773) and father William Thomas Bowles (1728–1786) had all been parish priests. After taking his degree at Oxford, Bowles followed his forebears into the Church of England, and in 1792, after serving as curate in Donhead St Andrew, was appointed vicar of Chicklade in Wiltshire. In 1797 he received the vicarage of Dumbleton in Gloucestershire, and in 1804 became vicar o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butterfield
William Butterfield (7 September 1814 – 23 February 1900) was a Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian Movement). He is noted for his use of polychromy. Biography William Butterfield was born in London in 1814. His parents were strict non-conformists who ran a chemist's shop in the Strand. He was one of nine children and was educated at a local school. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to Thomas Arber, a builder in Pimlico, who later became bankrupt. He studied architecture under E. L. Blackburne (1833–1836). From 1838 to 1839, he was an assistant to Harvey Eginton, an architect in Worcester, where he became articled. He established his own architectural practice at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1840. From 1842 Butterfield was involved with the Cambridge Camden Society, later The Ecclesiological Society. He contributed designs to the Society's journal, ''The Ecclesiologist''. His involvement influenced his architectural style. He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Abbey
Stanley Abbey was a medieval abbey near Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, which flourished between 1151 and 1536. Foundation The abbey was given by Empress Matilda in 1151 to monks from Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight. Originally at Loxwell, to the east of Chippenham, it moved to nearby Stanley in 1154. The abbey grew in size in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, reaching a size of at its largest. Its influence also grew, Abbot Nicholas entertaining King John in October 1200 and in 1210 Abbot Thomas of Calstone attending the meeting of King John and the Cistercian abbots at York. In 1280 King Edward I gave stone to the abbey for a chamber to be built for his own use, and according to the abbey chronicle he made use of it in the spring of 1282. Princess Mary, the bishop of Salisbury and Edward II were all reported to have stayed at the abbey during the first years of the fourteenth century. Its operation finally ceased as a result of the dissolution of the monasteries. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmesbury Abbey
Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a religious house dedicated to Saint Peter and Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul. It was one of the few English houses with a continuous history from the 7th century through to the dissolution of the monasteries. Monastic history In the later seventh century, the site of the Abbey was chosen by Maildubh, an Irish monasticism, Irish monk who established a hermitage, teaching local children. Toward the end of his life, in the late seventh century, the area was conquered by the Anglo-Saxons, Saxons.''Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo Saxon England'', p. 209. Malmesbury Abbey was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex. The town of Malmesbury grew around the expanding Abbey and under Alfred the Great was made a burh, with an assessment of 12 hides. In AD 941, King Æthelstan was buried in the Abbey. Æthelstan had died in Gloucester in October 939. The choice of Malme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
