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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… PATNEY Patney 1 lies at the western end of the Vale of Pewsey 7 km. south-east of Devizes. 2 The south-eastwards …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… by 1981. Treacle Bolly was in 1773 part of the Marlborough-Pewsey road, the old course of which was marked by a footpath …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… cent.); Peseia (xii cent.); Pesey, Petsia (xiii cent.); Pewsey (xvi cent.). Pusey is a small parish containing only …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… typical of Salisbury Plain and the southern side of the Pewsey Vale. 1 It lies north-east to southwest. Nowhere is it … green road. They enclose a small area in the south of the Pewsey Vale, level land below 350 ft. crossed by the Avon, … new bridges were built. In 1835 Rushall became part of Pewsey poor-law union. 239 Church. A church stood at Rushall …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a., about 6 miles east of Devizes reaching up from the Pewsey Vale to the Marlborough Downs. 1 Three Saxon land … pursuits. The south of the parish is part of the Vale of Pewsey where the land is comparatively level. Upper Greensand … which forms a rather circuitous route between Devizes and Pewsey. The road may have been well used by the late 18th …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Christchurch Avon valley, where it opens into the Vale of Pewsey, some 9 miles from Devizes and Marlborough and 8 miles … village, rather than like the long narrow parishes of the Pewsey Vale with upland on only one side. Despite that, and … characterized by geological outcrops more typical of the Pewsey Vale than the Avon valley. The parish is bisected by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lies at the extreme south-western end of the Vale of Pewsey about 5 miles south-east of Devizes, and measures 3 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilcot WILCOT The parish of Wilcot, contiguous with Pewsey, 6 miles from Marlborough, and 8 miles from Devizes, … Alton Priors is marked by Workway drove, part of that with Pewsey by Hare Street, and part of that with Manningford by the old road from Little Woodborough to Pewsey. Picked Hill, 662 ft., is in the west of the tithing, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Marden and Charlton 6 miles from Devizes and 4 miles from Pewsey. 3 It is long and narrow and measures only a mile wide … at about 325 ft. A few hundred yards north of the Devizes-Pewsey road the River and Valley Gravel is succeeded by the … Mr. Henry Horton. Manningford Bohune lies in the Vale of Pewsey about 2 miles east from Wilsford, of which it was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The parish of Woodborough lies mainly in the Vale of Pewsey some 7 miles from Devizes and 3 miles from Pewsey. 1 It is roughly rectangular but with a north-western … Its 1,023 a. are bounded in the south by the road to Pewsey and by the path which was perhaps an older, more …