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Malmesbury (hundred)
Malmesbury was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the north of the county and centring on the historic borough and market town of Malmesbury. The hundred of Malmesbury represents parishes that were within the Domesday hundreds of ''Chedglow''The Historical Gazetteer of English Place Names: Hundred of Chedglow accessed June 2017 and ''Startley'',The Historical Gazetteer of English Place Names: Hundred of Startley , accessed June 2017 which were held at farm by the Abbot of Malmesbury. Extent ...
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Hundred (county Subdivision)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Curonia, the Ukrainian state of the Cossack Hetmanate and in Cumberland County, New South Wales, Cumberland County in the British Colony of New South Wales. It is still used in other places, including in Australia (in South Australia and the Northern Territory). Other terms for the hundred in English and other languages include ''#wapentake, wapentake'', ''herred'' (Danish and Bokmål, Bokmål Norwegian), ''herad'' (Nynorsk, Nynorsk Norwegian), ''hérað'' (Icelandic), ''härad'' or ''hundare'' (Swedish), ''Harde'' (German), ''hiird'' (North Frisian language, North Frisian), ''satakunta'' or ''kihlakunta'' (Finnish), ''kihelkond'' (Estonian), ''kiligunda'' (Livonian), ''cantref'' (Welsh) and ''sotnia'' (Slavic). In Ireland, a similar subdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea And Cleverton
Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a settlement in the civil parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway * Lea, Devon, a location * Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish * Lea, Lancashire, a village * Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish * Lea, Lydham, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Pontesbury, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Wiltshire, a village * River Lea, a tributary of the Thames Spain * Lea, a river in Biscay, Basque Country United States * Lea County, New Mexico People * Lea (given name) * Lea (surname) * Lea (musician), a German singer-songwriter and keyboardist * Lea baronets, a title in the baronetage of the United Kingdom * Lea Salonga, a Filipina singer, actress, and columnist Arts and entertainment * Liberian Entertainment Awards (LEA), an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemble, Gloucestershire
Kemble is a village in the civil parish of Kemble and Ewen, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. Historically part of Wiltshire, it lies from Cirencester and is the settlement closest to Thames Head, the source of the River Thames. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 940. At the 2011 census the parish had a population of 1,036. Governance The village lies in Kemble electoral ward of Cotswold District Council, which stretches from Somerford Keynes to the south-east over to Rodmarton in the north-west. The ward population recorded in the 2011 census was 1,955. Church and history Kemble was the site of a 7th-century pagan, Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The village church today has a Norman door and a tower dating from 1250, to which a spire was added in 1450. The full restoration in 1872 included bringing here brick by brick the chapel of ease at nearby Ewen, to form a new south transept. Kemble Church is part of the Thameshead benefice, covering the congregatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley, Wiltshire
Ashley is a small village in the civil parish of Box in Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Corsham, which lies approximately east from the village. The village is on the A4 which links Bath with Corsham and Chippenham. Ashley Manor is from the 17th century. Box railway station was close to Ashley, where the A4 crosses the Great Western line. There is a pub, the ''Northey Arms''. It should not be confused with Ashley, Gloucestershire near Tetbury Tetbury is a town and civil parish inside the Cotswold district in England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in ..., which was transferred from Wiltshire to Gloucestershire in 1930. References Box, Wiltshire Villages in Wiltshire {{Wiltshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westport, Wiltshire
Malmesbury () is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately west of Swindon, northeast of Bristol, and north of Chippenham. The older part of the town is on a hilltop which is almost surrounded by the upper waters of the Bristol Avon and one of its tributaries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the early medieval period Malmesbury became the site Malmesbury Abbey, a monastery famed for its learning. It was later home to one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of all England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939. As a market town, it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning, focused on and around the abbey. In modern times, Malmesbury is best known for its abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. The economy benefits mostly from agriculture, as well as tourism to the Cotswolds, and a Dyson facili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutton Benger
Sutton Benger is a village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England, northeast of the town of Chippenham.OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon Scale: 1:25 000.Publisher: Ordnance Survey A2 edition (2007). The parish includes the hamlet of Draycot Cerne. Location Sutton Benger lies in the Dauntsey Vale, the wide floodplain of the Bristol Avon. The river forms much of the eastern boundary of the parish. History In 1086 a settlement at ''Draicote'' with 22 households was recorded in the Domesday Book survey. At that time the manor belonged to Malmesbury Abbey. The 13th century saw the beginnings of two stone churches and the origins of Manor Farmhouse. Like many very old buildings, these have since been much altered and rebuilt. Circa the 1540s, soon after the Dissolution, the manor was acquired by Robert Long (d.1581), who also owned Draycot. The estate remained in the Long family, later the Tylney-Long baronets. Over the centuries Sutton Benger v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanton St Quintin
Stanton St Quintin is a small village and civil parish in the county of Wiltshire in England. It is about north of Chippenham and south of Malmesbury. The parish church dates in part from the 12th century. The parish includes the hamlets of Clanville (in the southeast) and Lower Stanton St Quintin (on the A429 road, to the northeast). History Farmland and woodland at ''Stantone'' in the ancient hundred of Chippenham, were recorded in the Domesday Book survey of 1086. There were 19 households, and estates were held by Glastonbury Abbey and Osbern Giffard. There is a Roman villa site at Stanton Park in the west of the parish, about east of the Fosse Way. The Malmesbury-Chippenham road, crossing the parish from north to south, has been in use since at least 1100. There were two villages from 1223 or earlier: Stanton (on the road between Draycot Cerne and Grittleton, later called Upper Stanton) and Nether Stanton (later Lower Stanton). In the southeast of the parish is a moated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Somerford
Little Somerford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, southeast of Malmesbury and northeast of Chippenham. The northern boundary of the parish follows approximately the B4040 Malmesbury– Swindon road. The Bristol Avon forms part of the boundary to the west and south, and its tributary the Brinkworth Brook forms part of the southeastern boundary. History Eight estates were recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book at ''Sumreford'', with altogether 80 households. The 'Little' prefix began to be used in the 16th century to distinguish the parish from neighbouring Great Somerford. A school for 100 pupils was built in 1868 to replace an earlier schoolroom, and was extended in 1894. Children of all ages attended until 1954, when those aged 11 and over transferred to the secondary schools at Malmesbury. The school closed in 1982 when a new school was opened in Great Somerford to serve both villages. The South Wales Main Line railway from London to Bristol and South W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Somerford
Great Somerford is a village and civil parish within Dauntsey Vale, Wiltshire, England,OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon, Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher: Ordnance Survey A2 edition (2007). near the south bank of the river Avon. It lies approximately southeast of Malmesbury and west of Swindon. The hamlet of Startley and the location of Seagry Heath are within the bounds of the parish. The parish boundaries to the northeast and east follow the Avon, or in some places the river's former course. In the northwest the boundary partly follows the Rodbourne stream, a small tributary which joins the Avon northwest of the village. The Brinkworth Brook joins the Avon in the northwest corner of the parish. History Eight estates were recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book at the Somerfords, with altogether 80 households. The mound of a motte castle, 40 metres in diameter and probably from the 12th century, stands immediately east of the church. South of the mound is the Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seagry
Seagry is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Malmesbury and northeast of Chippenham. Its main settlements are the village of Upper Seagry, which was first mentioned in official records under the name Over Seagry (in 1317), and the hamlet of Lower Seagry, which was first documented (1218) as Nether Seagry. The toponym is thought to derive from the Old English for "sedge stream". Sedge is the common name for plants of the family ''Cyperaceae'' and stream here may refer to the River Avon, which flows through the area. History There is evidence that the area was settled in the Upper Paleolithic period, and also of Saxon occupation. The Domesday Book of 1086 records 21 households and two manors: ''Segrete'' held by Durand of Gloucester, and ''Segrie'' by Drogo Fitz Ponz. ''Segrete'' became part of the estates of the Earl of Hereford, and later passed into the ownership of Bradenstoke Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A grange farm at Lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oaksey
Oaksey is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the county boundary with Gloucestershire. The village is about northeast of the market town of Malmesbury and a similar distance south of the Gloucestershire market town of Cirencester. The Swill Brook forms part of the northern boundary of the parish. History A settlement of 28 households at ''Wochesie'' was recorded in Domesday Book of 1086. There was a church at Oaksey in the 12th century, and in 1377 there were 86 poll tax payers. Norwood Castle is an earthwork about north of the village at Dean Farm. It may be the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle. An early manor house, near the church, was in ruins by 1593. Oaksey Park House, a three-storey manor house, was built in the early 17th century, possibly for Sir Henry Poole. It was demolished in 1956. Parish church The Grade I listed Church of England parish church of All Saints existed by the first half of the 12th century, and the nave walls of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton, Wiltshire
Norton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southwest of Malmesbury. The parish includes the hamlets of Foxley and Bremilham (also known as Cowage). The Sherston branch of the Bristol Avon forms the north boundary of the parish. History Bronze Age ring ditches and signs of early medieval or Saxon settlement are in the east of the parish, near Cowage Farm. The Fosse Way Roman road forms the west boundary of the parish, where it is a bridleway. The east–west road between Malmesbury and Sherston passes through Foxley and Bremilham. From the late 17th century until 1756 this was the main route between Oxford and Bristol. Foxley and Bremilham were separate ecclesiastical parishes until 1893 when Bremilham was united with Foxley. In 1934 Foxley (with Bremilham) was transferred to the civil parish of Norton. Religious sites Norton The Anglican Church of All Saints at Norton is Grade II listed. There was probably a church in the 13th century, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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