Next Door
Local Parishes
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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours next door) To MAIDEN BRADLEY & Yarnfield
Brixton Deverill
Frome (SOM)
Hill Deverill
Horningsham
Kilmington
Kingston Deverill
Marston Bigot (SOM)
Mere
Witham Friary (SOM)
THE DEVERILLS
Question: What is the meaning of the word Deverill? Answer: Deverill is a river name that was once used for the upper part of the river Wylye. It is made up of two Celtic elements; 'dubro', meaning water - 'ial' (modern Welsh equivalent), meaning fertile or cultivated upland region. The name was appended to those settlements in this area although in the Domesday book they are all called 'Devrel' Bibliography: The Place-names of Wiltshire, by J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton. CUP, 1939 / source . . .
Also see: Walking the Deverill Churches
The village of Brixton Deverill is part of the Deverill Valley. [see: Wylye Valley] This encompasses six villages on the Wiltshire Downs where the western edge of Salisbury Plain dips into Somerset. Longbridge is the principal village and its parish includes neighbouring Crockerton. The other Deverills are Hill, now in Longbridge parish, and the parish of Kingston Deverill which includes Monkton.
The ancient parish of Hill Deverill included the detached tithing of Baycliffe which lay 5.5 km. west of Hill Deverill village. In 1884 Baycliffe (c. 200 a.) was absorbed into Horningsham parish, and in 1934 Hill Deverill itself (1,548 a.) was absorbed into Longbridge Deverill parish. The village of Hill Deverill straddles the River Wylye 5 km. south of Warminster. The parish was rarely more than 1 km. wide and extended from east to west across the upper Wylye, or Deverill, valley up onto the high chalk downs on each side.
The parish of Kingston Deverill, which since 1934 has included the village of Monkton Deverill, is part of the Deverill Valley. This encompasses six villages on the Wiltshire Downs where the western edge of Salisbury Plain dips into Somerset. Longbridge is the principal village & its parish includes neighbouring Crockerton. The other Deverills are Hill, now in Longbridge parish, & Brixton.
THE REST
Frome (SOM)
Frome is a town and civil parish in northeast Somerset, England. Located at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, the town is built on uneven high ground, and centres around the River Frome.
The scattered parish of Horningsham is part of the Longleat Estate, owned by the Marquess of Bath, and lies on the Wiltshire/Somerset border between Warminster and Frome. The soil is light and sandy with some clay sub-soil, part gravel and part chalk. It has an entry in Domesday but was very small, being occupied by one cottager and four small holders, and covered c.120 acres. The name ‘Horninges-ham’ means ‘Horning’s homestead’. The personal name probably comes from the uncomplimentary noun ‘hornung’ meaning ‘bastard’.
Kilmington (website) is a village and civil parish in the extreme west of Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Norton Ferris. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 292. It lies on the northern edge of the ancient Selwood Forest. Whitesheet Hill is in the far east of the parish, and Long Knoll (288m above sea level) is a long ridge on the northern boundary of the parish. Until 1896 Kilmington was in Somerset. The parish was part of the Norton Ferris Hundred.
Marston Bigot (SOM)
Marston Bigot is a small village near Nunney and 3 miles (5 km) south of Frome in Somerset, England.
Mere is an attractive small town that has grown up in the south western corner of Wiltshire, on the fringe of the great forest of Selwood. On its borders three counties meet and the town has many links with Dorset and a few with Somerset. Geologically it is on the dividing line between the chalk and the clay. A fault line, along which there are numerous springs, runs through the settlement itself, with chalk and greensand to the north and Kimmeridge clay to the south
Witham Friary (SOM)
Witham Friary is a small English village and civil parish located between the towns of Frome and Bruton in the county of Somerset. It is in the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the ancient Forest of Selwood.
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Jul 2013