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Kingsdown is a 
At the top of Doctor's Hill, Kingsdown House is a three-storey ashlar house from the early 18th century; its formal front with parapet and corner urns was embellished in the 19th century with a
The Swan Inn
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hamlet
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in the civil parish
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of Box
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, Wiltshire
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, England. It is about south-west of Box village and east of Bathford
Bathford (pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable) is a village and civil parish east of Bath, England. The parish, which includes Warleigh, has a population of 1,759 and extends over .
History
The ancient charter ''Codex Diploma ...
, across the county border in Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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At the top of Doctor's Hill, Kingsdown House is a three-storey ashlar house from the early 18th century; its formal front with parapet and corner urns was embellished in the 19th century with a Corinthian Corinthian or Corinthians may refer to:
*Several Pauline epistles, books of the New Testament of the Bible:
**First Epistle to the Corinthians
**Second Epistle to the Corinthians
**Third Epistle to the Corinthians (Orthodox)
*A demonym relating to ...
porch and a roof-height clock. There was a private asylum
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Types of asylum
* Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
* Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
* Cities of Refuge, places of refuge in ancient Judea
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here from the 17th century to the mid-20th, latterly called Kingsdown Nursing Home. The house and its adjacent 19th-century buildings are now in residential use.
A Methodist
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chapel was built in 1869 and rebuilt in 1926. By 2003 it was a private house.
There is a pub
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, the ''Swan Inn''. Kingsdown Golf Course is on higher ground to the east of the hamlet.
References
External links
*The Swan Inn
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