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Tockenham
Tockenham is a village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England. The village is about east of Lyneham and southwest of the town of Royal Wootton Bassett. The parish includes the hamlet of Tockenham Wick. Roman villa A Roman villa a short distance north of the present village was the subject of an episode of the archaeological television programme ''Time Team'', broadcast in 1995. As a result of their geophysical survey, sample trenches and environmental core samples, the site was subsequently scheduled to give it legal protection. Based on pottery finds, the site was occupied from the mid 2nd century to the late 4th century. Although no complete mosaic floors were found, tesserae and painted plaster were both found in some numbers, suggesting a major building phase in the 4th century. Later history The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded 17 households in the area. At Tockenham Wick, in the north of the parish, is a substantial manor house dating from c. 1600, now Grade II* l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyneham, Wiltshire
Lyneham is a large village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Lyneham and Bradenstoke, and situated southwest of Royal Wootton Bassett, north of Calne and southwest of Swindon. The village is on the A3102 road between Calne and Wootton Bassett. The part of Lyneham village close to the parish church is known as Church End. The civil parish includes the village of Bradenstoke and the hamlets of Preston and The Banks. History In 1086, Domesday Book recorded 42 households at ''Stoche'' in the northwest of the modern parish. Earthworks in this area known as Clack Mount, including a mound 20 metres in diameter, could be from a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, although the early history is uncertain. Bradenstoke Priory was founded nearby in 1142, possibly on the site of an earlier chapel. The hamlet on both sides of the road leading to the priory was called Clack from the 14th century, as shown on Andrews' and Dury's map of 1773; in the 20th century the name Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Roman Villas In England
A list of Roman villas in England confirmed by archaeology. Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Derbyshire Devon Dorset Essex Gloucestershire Greater London Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Kent Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex East Sussex West Sussex Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire See also *List of Roman villas in Wales References {{Architecture of England Villas, England Roman villas A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas ... Villas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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