Bushton
The Trotting Horse pub in 2007
Bushton is located in Wiltshire
Bushton
Bushton
Location within Wiltshire
OS grid referenceSU063779
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSwindon
Postcode districtSN4
Dialling code01793
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
WebsiteParish Council

Bushton is an English hamlet about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire. It belongs to the civil parish of Clyffe Pypard.

History

In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded an estate at Bushton, held by the Bishop of Winchester.[1] By the 17th century the manor of Bushton had become a tithing of Clyffe Pypard parish.[2]

Manor Farmhouse is a Georgian house of five bays built of brick with stone trim in the early 18th century.[3]

Woodhill Park, near Bushton, is a Georgian country house built in the 18th century. Richard Pace added the south-east range in 1804.[4]

Notable residents

The pamphleteer and poet Ralph Broome (1742–1835) was born and raised in the hamlet.[5] Also born at Bushton was the Jesuit missionary to India Thomas Stephens (c. 1549–1619).

Amenities

The parish's village hall is at Bushton.[6]

Bushton's public house, the Trotting Horse, closed down in 2016 for conversion into a residence.[7]

References

  1. ↑ /bushton/ Bushton in the Domesday Book
  2. ↑ Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.). "Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 9 pp. 23–43". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1975) [1963]. Cherry, Bridget (ed.). The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 154. ISBN 0-14-071026-4.
  4. ↑ R. W. Dunning; K. H. Rogers; P. A. Spalding; Colin Shrimpton; Janet H. Stevenson; Margaret Tomlinson (1970). Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 9. pp. 23–43.
  5. ↑ Joyce Hemlow, ed.: The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney... (London: OUP, 1972 ff.), vol. IV., p. 30n.
  6. ↑ "Village Hall". Clyffe Pypard and Bushton Villages. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rural pub to become house". Gazette & Herald. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.


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