Tytherington is a small village in

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, in the southwest of England. It lies on the south side of the

Wylye 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 ha ...

valley, about southeast of the town of

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and southwest of the larger village of

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 neigh ...

. Most of the village is now part of the

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of Heytesbury although a few houses in the west are within the parish of

Sutton Veny Sutton Veny is a village and civil parish in the Wylye valley, to the southeast of the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, England; the village is about from Warminster town centre. 'Sutton' means 'south farmstead' in relation to Norton Bavant, on ...

. John Marius Wilson's ''

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'' (1870-1872) said of Tytherington: The Church of St James, Tytherington - geograph

The small

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Church of St James is

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. A church was founded here in the early 12th century but the present building is mainly from the 16th, and was

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in 1891 by C.E. Ponting. It has always been a chapel of St Peter and St Paul at Heytesbury; it has no graveyard. Today the parish is served by the Upper Wylye Valley team ministry. Manor Farmhouse, at the north entrance to the village, is a 4-bay 2-storey house from the early 18th century, extended and altered in the 19th. In the Sutton Veny part of the village, Ashbys (formerly Tytherington Farmhouse) carries a date of 1771; nearby are a dovecote dated 1810 and a granary and stable of similar date. Tytherington Down is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

References

External links

Heytesbury parish
at Wiltshire Community History
Parish of Heytesbury, Imber, Knook and Tytherington
{{Commons category-inline Hamlets in Wiltshire