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Sedgehill
Sedgehill is a former civil parish, with scattered small settlements, now within Sedgehill and Semley civil parish in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire. It lies to the west of the A350 primary route, about north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. History In the 12th century, and possibly the 11th, the lands which became Sedgehill parish were part of the estates of Shaftesbury Abbey. After the Dissolution, Sedgehill manor was bought by Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle (c. 1502 – 1552) and then in 1573 by William Grove (died 1582) who was briefly MP for Shaftesbury. The estate remained in the Grove family (from 1874 the Grove baronets), although reduced in size as farms were sold, until the death of Gerald Grove in 1962. The population of the parish rose to 216 at the 1871 census, and by 1961 had declined to 130. In 1986, on recommendation of Salisbury District Council, the parish was amalgamated with Semley to form Sedgehill and Semley civil parish. Parish churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedgehill And Semley
Sedgehill and Semley is a civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about north of the town of Shaftesbury on the main A350 road. It is in the southwest of Wiltshire and adjoins Dorset. The parish includes the villages of Sedgehill and Semley, and the hamlets of Barkers Hill (in the southeast, towards Donhead St Andrew) and Sem Hill (near Semley). The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 601. The River Sem forms part of the northern boundary of the parish, and is fed by several streams which cross the parish in a generally northeasterly direction. The Sem joins the River Nadder in the northeast corner of the parish near Wardour, and the short eastern boundary of the parish follows the course of the Nadder. Governance The parish was created in 1986 by combining formerly separate parishes. The parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions. The pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semley
Semley is a village in Sedgehill and Semley civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset. The hamlet of Sem Hill lies about a quarter of a mile west of the village. The River Sem, from which the village takes its name, forms part of the northern boundary of the parish. History In AD 955 King Eadwig granted land to Wilton Abbey, and Semley was probably part of that estate. In the 1530s. under Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Abbey had to surrender its lands to the Crown, including the manor of Semley. In 1541 Henry VIII granted Semley to Sir Edward Bayntun and his wife Lady Isabel as part of his policy of re-allocated monastic land to his nobles. In 1572 in Queen Elizabeth's reign, Bayntun's son Francis restored Semley to the Crown, and later that year Elizabeth I granted Semley to Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle, who was knighted in 1574. In 1605 his son Thomas was created Baron Arundell of Wardour, and the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grove Baronets
The Grove Baronetcy, of Ferne House, in the parish of Donhead St Andrew in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 March 1874 for Thomas Grove, Liberal Member of Parliament for Wiltshire South and Wilton. The Grove family descends from John Grove, who settled in Wiltshire in the 15th century. A later member of the family, William Grove (d. 1582), briefly represented Shaftesbury in the House of Commons. He purchased the Ferne estate in 1563 and the manor of Sedgehill, Wiltshire, in 1573; the latter continued in the Grove family, albeit reduced in size, until shortly after the death of the third baronet in 1962. The presumed fourth Baronet never successfully proved his succession and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage The Official Roll of the Baronetage is an official list of baronets kept by the Lord Chancellor; an abridged version is published online by the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Any perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Grove
Sir Gerald Grove, 3rd Baronet (18 December 1886 – 3 March 1962) was an army officer and filmmaker.Desmond Hawkins (1995). ''The Grove diaries: the rise and fall of an English family, 1809–1925.'' University of Delaware Press, He was one of the Grove Baronets.''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage., Volume 1.'' Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1937 Life and career His father was Sir Walter Grove and his mother was the essayist Geraldine, Lady Grove. He was educated at Sherborne School in Sherborne, Dorset. Grove joined the British South Africa Police in Rhodesia in 1911 and served during World War I in the South-West Africa Campaign and East African Campaign and with the King's African Rifles, rising to rank of lieutenant.Staff report (1962). Obituary. ''East Africa and Rhodesia, Volume 38.'' Africana, p. 695 He was co-director of the 1929 film '' A Dangerous Woman'' and served in technical advisory roles in ''Tower of London'', ''Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grove (16th-century MP)
William Grove (1532/33 – 1582), of Shaftesbury, Dorset, and Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire, was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer. He was the son of Robert Grove. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford and was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1557. Grove bought estates at Donhead St Andrew and Sedgehill, both in Wiltshire, in 1563 and 1573 respectively. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about above sea level on a ... in 1558. References 1532 births 1582 deaths English MPs 1558 Alumni of New College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn People educated at Winchester College {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland. The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000. The statutory term in Ireland is "Record of Protected Structures, protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency, particularly for significant alterations to the more notable listed buildings. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. Exemption from secular listed building control is provided for some buildin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Knoyle
East Knoyle is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Wiltshire, in the south-west of England, just west of the A350 road, A350 and about south of Warminster and north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was the birthplace of the architect Christopher Wren, Sir Christopher Wren. The parish includes the hamlets of Holloway, Milton, The Green, Underhill and Upton. History East Knoyle was part of the ancient Hundred (country subdivision), Hundred of Downton, Wiltshire, Downton. Unusually for England, parish registers survive from 1538 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England at genuki.org.uk John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–1872) notes two Tithing (country subdivision), tythings in East Knoyle: Milton and Upton. East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berwick St Leonard
Berwick St Leonard is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Warminster and west of Salisbury. Geography A small stream rises near that village and flows intermittently, under wet conditions. Soon after leaving the parish the stream forms Fonthill Lake and then joins the Nadder near Tisbury. The northern boundary of the parish is the watershed between the Nadder and the Wylye. The soil is chalky and mainly used for arable cropping and sheep, but increasing numbers of cows have been kept since about 1980. The A303 trunk road, linking London with southwest England, crosses the parish. Berwick St John village is on the B3089 about to the south. The Monarch's Way is a long-distance footpath that passes through the parish. History There is a prehistoric earthwork near Penning, in the north of the parish. From before 1650 to around 1900, nearly all the land in the parish belonged to a single farm, probably Cold Berwick Farm, which appears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapelry
A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the community's official place of worship in religious and secular matters, and the fusion of these matters — principally tithes — initially heavily tied to the main parish church. The church's medieval doctrine of subsidiarity when the congregation or sponsor was wealthy enough supported their constitution into new parishes. Such chapelries were first widespread in northern England and in largest parishes across the country which had populous outlying places. Except in cities the entire coverage of the parishes (with very rare extra-parochial areas) was fixed in medieval times by reference to a large or influential manor or a set of manors. A lord of the manor or other patron of an area, often the Diocese, would for prestige and public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England Parish Church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes called the ecclesiastical parish, to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and villages have). Parishes in England In England, there are parish churches for both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. References to a "parish church", without mention of a denomination, will, however, usually be to those of the Church of England due to its status as the Established Church. This is generally true also for Wales, although the Church in Wales is dis-established. The Church of England is made up of parishes, each one forming part of a diocese. Almost every part of England is within both a parish and a diocese (there are very few non-parochial areas and some parishes not in dioceses). These ecclesiastical parishes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Boundary Commission For England
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is a parliamentary body established by statute to conduct boundary, electoral and structural reviews of local government areas in England. The LGBCE is independent of government and political parties, and is directly accountable to the Speaker's Committee of the House of Commons. History and establishment The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, which received royal assent on 12 November 2009, provided for the establishment of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), and for the transfer to it of all the boundary-related functions of the Boundary Committee for England of the Electoral Commission. The transfer took place in April 2010. Responsibilities and objectives The Local Government Boundary Commission for England is responsible for three types of review: electoral reviews; administrative boundary reviews; and structural reviews. Electoral reviews An electoral re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury District Council
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. Salisbury Cathedral was formerly north of the city at Old Sarum. The cathedral was relocated and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is northwest of Salisbury. Name The name ''Salisbury'', which is first recorded around the year 900 as ''Searoburg'' ( dative ''Searobyrig''), is a partial translation of the Roman Celtic name ''Sorbiodūnum''. The Brittonic suffix ''-dūnon'', meaning "fortress" (in referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
