|
River Wylye
The River Wylye ( ) is a chalk stream in the south of England, with clear water flowing over gravel. It is popular with anglers for fly fishing. A half-mile stretch of the river and three lakes in Warminster are a local nature reserve. Course The Wylye rises below the White Sheet Downs just south of Maiden Bradley in south-west Wiltshire, then flows north through the Upper Deverills. A tributary which feeds the man-made Shearwater lake joins near Crockerton. On the southern edge of Warminster the river turns to head generally east south east, running through the Mid Wylye Valley, into which the A36 road and the Wessex Main Line are also squeezed. The river passes through or touches the parishes of Bishopstrow, Norton Bavant, Heytesbury, Knook, Upton Lovell, Boyton, Codford, Stockton, Wylye and Wilton, near the southern edge of Salisbury Plain. At Wilton, it comes to an end, running into the River Nadder, which itself flows into the Hampshire Avon. That eventually d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton Bavant
Norton Bavant is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, southeast of Warminster. Geography The village is on the River Wylye and at the edge of Salisbury Plain. To the north lies Scratchbury and Cotley Hills Site of Special Scientific Interest, and the Iron Age hillfort of Scratchbury Camp. The A36 road to Salisbury bypasses the village to the south, on the other side of the river. The earlier direct route of the road, just north of the village, is now the B3414. The Wessex Main Line railway between Warminster and Salisbury, opened 1856, follows the river valley and crosses the parish to the north and east of the village. The local station at Heytesbury was closed in 1955. History Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a settlement with 22 households at ''Nortone''. John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–1872) described Norton Bavant as follows: NORTON-BAVANT, a village and a parish in Warminster district, Wilts. The village stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Deverills
Upper Deverills Parish Council is a grouped parish council in Wiltshire, England, which covers the civil parishes of Brixton Deverill and Kingston Deverill. , the parishes have altogether 280 electors. The Upper Deverills Parish Council has five members. wiltshire.gov.uk, accessed 26 March 2021 As well as the villages of Brixton Deverill and Kingston Deverill, the council covers two further settlements in Kingston Deverill parish, namely Monkton Deverill and Whitepits. Most local government services are provided by , a |
Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering . It is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England formed by the rocks of the Chalk Group and largely lies within the county of Wiltshire, but stretches into Hampshire. The plain is famous for its rich archaeology, including Stonehenge, one of England's best known landmarks. Large areas are given over to military training and thus the sparsely populated plain is the biggest remaining area of calcareous grassland in northwest Europe. Additionally the plain has arable land, and a few small areas of beech trees and coniferous woodland. Its highest point is Easton Hill. Physical geography The boundaries of Salisbury Plain have never been truly defined, and there is some difference of opinion as to its exact area. The river valleys surrounding it, and other downs and plains beyond them loosely define its boundaries. To the north the scarp of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wylye, Wiltshire
Wylye () is a village and civil parish on the River Wylye in Wiltshire, England. The village is about northwest of Salisbury and a similar distance southeast of Warminster. The parish extends north and south of the river, and includes the hamlet of Deptford. Today Deptford is at the junction of two primary roads, the A303 (London to the southwest) and the A36 (Southampton to Bristol). In 1934 half of Fisherton parish was added to Wylye, including the small village of Fisherton Delamere. History A collection of Bronze Age jewellery found near the village by metal detectorists in 2012, known as the Wylye Hoard, is held by Salisbury Museum. Bilbury Rings, on the southern slope of the valley, is an Iron Age hillfort. Nearby is a prehistoric field system. A Roman road from Winchester to the Mendips passes through the southern edge of the parish. The boundaries of Wyle manor, and possibly also of Deptford manor, were defined in the 10th century. Domesday Book in 1086 recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockton, Wiltshire
Stockton is a small village and civil parish in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Warminster. The parish includes the hamlet of Bapton. Location and extent The village lies south of the A36 Warminster-Salisbury road and the River Wylye, on the minor road which follows the right bank of the river. The larger village of Codford is about one mile to the northwest. When the civil parish of Fisherton Delamere was extinguished in 1934, the portion south of the Wylye (1,174 acres) was transferred to Stockton. This transfer included Bapton and Fisherton Mill, in the village of Fisherton Delamere. Stockton also has two cottages some three miles from the main village street at a remote spot called Great Bottom. History Evidence of Neolithic presence includes a long barrow on Stockton Down. From the late Iron Age there was a settlement on a ridge in Stockton Wood, in the south of the present parish, which continued to be occupied in the Romano-British peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codford
Codford is a civil parish south of Salisbury Plain in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England. Its settlements are the adjacent villages of Codford St Peter and Codford St Mary, which lie some southeast of Warminster. The two villages are on the A36 road between Salisbury and Warminster. The A36 previously ran along the whole length of the High Street, but a bypass which was built in the 1990s removed the through traffic. The Chitterne Brook flows north–south through the parish, then turns southeast to flow through Codford St Mary before joining the Wylye. History A possible neolithic hillfort or enclosure, Codford Circle, stands at the summit of Codford Hill to the northeast of the villages. In the far north of the parish is Aston Valley Barrow Cemetery, a group of Bronze Age barrows. Anglo-Saxon records show that in the year 906 the area was known as 'Codan Ford' probably meaning 'the ford of Coda' (a man's name). The river which is forded is called the Wylye, which may me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyton, Wiltshire
Boyton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It lies in the Wylye Valley within Salisbury Plain, about south-east of Warminster and north-west of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Corton. The A36 Salisbury-Warminster road passes north of the villages. The parish is on the right (south) bank of the Wylye, opposite Upton Lovell (near Corton) and Codford St Peter (near Boyton). Its area extends south-west to the higher ground of Corton Down, Boyton Down and Rowdean Hill. In the far south is the Great Ridge Wood, which lies mostly within Boyton and covers about a quarter of the parish. History Prehistoric sites in the parish include Corton Long Barrow. The 1086 Domesday Book recorded 17 households at Boyton and six at Corton. In the thirteenth century, there was a castle in the village. An occupant of the castle was Hugh Giffard and his wife Sibyl, who was the daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Cormeilles. Hugh was father of the Walter Giffard wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upton Lovell
Upton Lovell is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It lies on the A36, in the Wylye valley about southeast of Warminster. The parish is on the left (northeast) bank of the river, and stretches for over two miles northeast onto Salisbury Plain. History Upton Great Barrow, on the high ground of Knook Horse Hill, is a Bronze Age bell barrow, with a central mound 34m in diameter and 2.5m high. When Colt Hoare excavated it, around 1812, he found a cremation with a necklace of amber, shale and earthenware beads; the necklace is now at the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes. Earlier, William Cunnington had opened nearby bowl barrows and found cremations with grave goods including a bronze dagger. Further north are two rare saucer barrows. Knook Castle, in the north of the parish, is the site of an Iron Age hillfort. The large field system on Codford Down (Iron Age or Romano-British) extends into the parish. Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a settlement at ''Uptone'' with 23 ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knook, Wiltshire
Knook is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies to the north of the River Wylye at the edge of Salisbury Plain, about southeast of Warminster, close to the A36 road to Salisbury. History The Iron Age hillfort known as Knook Castle is in the adjacent parish of Upton Lovell. The ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 records the manor of Knook as ''Cunuche'', with 19 households. The entry mentions a woman of the manor called Leofgyth "who made gold embroideries for the king and queen and still does so". Much of the present manor house was built in 1637. It is Grade I listed. An army camp was established in 1914 to the north of the village, on the other side of the main road near the junction with the Chitterne road. The site is now part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area and continues in use as Knook Camp, providing temporary accommodation in many small buildings and extending north into Heytesbury parish. ''Imperial Gazetteer'' entry John Marius Wilso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heytesbury
Heytesbury is a village (formerly considered to be a town) and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies on the north bank of the Wylye, about southeast of the town of Warminster. The civil parish includes most of the small neighbouring settlement of Tytherington, and the deserted village of Imber. History Chalk downland north of Heytesbury village has prehistoric earthworks including long barrows and round barrows. Strip lynchets are visible north and east of Cotley Hill. The parish lies between the Iron Age hillforts of Scratchbury Camp and Knook Castle. A Romano-British settlement has been identified on Tytherington Hill, in the far south of the parish. Chapperton Down, west of Imber, has evidence of settlement and field systems from the same period and earlier. The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a small settlement of eight households at ''Hestrebe'', with a church. The hundred of Heytesbury, south and east of Warminster, comprised seventeen places. The Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishopstrow
Bishopstrow is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the southeastern edge of the town of Warminster. The village is about from the town centre, south of the old Warminster to Salisbury road, formerly the A36, now the B3414. The modern A36 passes to the south of the village. The parish extends north-east from the Wylye valley onto Salisbury Plain, where its northern section is within the Imber Range sector of the Salisbury Plain military training area. History The name may come from "bishop's tree", meaning the place where St Aldhelm's staff miraculously grew into an ash tree. When Bishopstrow was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 it was held by Edward of Salisbury. Ela, Countess of Salisbury gave Bishopstrow manor in 1236 to the nunnery at Lacock, which she had recently founded. After the Dissolution the property passed through several hands until it was bought in 1635 by William Temple. His descendants include another William who was High Sherif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wessex Main Line
The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central. Diverging from this route is the Heart of Wessex Line from Westbury to Weymouth. The Wessex Main Line intersects the Reading to Taunton Line at and the West of England Main Line at . Places served The places served are listed below. *Bristol Temple Meads * Keynsham * Oldfield Park * Bath Spa ** Great Western Main Line diverges to Chippenham, Swindon and London Paddington * Freshford *Avoncliff *Bradford-on-Avon *Trowbridge * Westbury **Heart of Wessex Line diverges to Weymouth *Dilton Marsh *Warminster *Salisbury *Dean * Mottisfont & Dunbridge * Romsey ** Eastleigh to Romsey Line diverges to Chandler's Ford and Eastleigh *Southampton Passenger services are currently operated by Great Western Railway Portsmouth - Cardiff services, supplemented by South Western Railway between Salisbury and Southampton, and by Great Western high-speed express services between Bristol and Bath. Some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Stockton, Wiltshire")
.jpg "Click for more on -> Heytesbury")
