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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Marlborough Downs in the north, down the scarp face to the Pewsey Vale in the south. In the north, where Wansdyke … in 1812 and remains a prominent landmark visible from the Pewsey Vale. 4 Lower Chalk outcrops below about 750 ft. The … tracks, and was crossed near Alton Barnes by the Devizes-Pewsey road linking the villages at the foot of the downs. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… at the south-east corner of Cannings marsh midway between Pewsey and Devizes, and is about 5 miles distant from each. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… road passes through Horton and goes to Allington and Pewsey crossing the canal by two stone bridges, the first of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Charlton 1 covers 1,734 a. and lies 4 miles southwest of Pewsey. 2 Long and narrow in shape, it measures some 5 miles … lies below the scarp on the southern edge of the Vale of Pewsey. There the settlement shelters beneath the downs on … for not repairing the roads. 127 Charlton became part of Pewsey poor-law union in 1835. 128 Apart from registers no …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… south-east of Devizes at the western end of the Vale of Pewsey. 1 Reckoned at 1,926 a., the parish is long and … after the Second World War. In 1972 Kennet Properties of Pewsey were constructing a number of detached houses at the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… from 1770 to 1912. 155 Collingbourne became part of Pewsey poor-law union in 1836. 156 Church. By 1086 the tithes …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… been unfounded. 378 After 1835, when Enford became part of Pewsey poor-law union, and throughout the 1840s an average of some 50, one of the larger totals for Pewsey union, was spent on out-relief in the parish. 379 In … xvi.96. Poor Law Com. 2 nd Rep. 560; W.R.O. 772/36, Pewsey union quarterly abstr. 183646. W.R.O. 772/37, list of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a., lies 2 miles east of Devizes at the western end of the Pewsey Vale and, with a base 2 miles wide, is roughly … century it was of average size among the villages of the Pewsey Vale 11 and in 1801 was still so. Its population was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… wide, and covers 1,330 ha. (3,286 a.). The nearest town is Pewsey some 8 km. away. The entire parish lies on the Upper … in the north-west where it ran between Everleigh and Pewsey. 7 In 1591 the prominent landmark of Sidbury hill was … more additions were made in the early 19th century. With Pewsey Everleigh gave its name to a petty sessional division …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for the period 16911835. 160 Fittleton became part of Pewsey poor-law union in 1835. 161 Church. Fittleton church …