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Pop., 261. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. Norton House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £250. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was recently rebuilt. There are a parochial school, and charities £4. [3] Norton Bavant Manor was built in the late 17th century and is Grade ...
Byne House is a Grade II* listed house at 40 Church Street, Warminster, Wiltshire, England. [1] It was built in 1755 for the clothier John Wansey, and is an example of the wealth that accrued to the area from the wool industry. [2] It was later the home of the headmaster of Warminster School. The house was badly damaged by fire in 2007.
Portway House is a Grade I listed town house in Warminster, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1722 for wealthy clothier Edward Middlecott, [1] the estate (then called Newport) having been bought by his ancestor Richard Middlecott in stages between 1559 and 1568. It replaced Newport manor house, on land owned by the Mauduit family from ...
Warminster (/ ˈ w ɔːr m ɪ n s t ər /) is a historic market town and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England, on the western edge of Salisbury Plain. The parish had a population of 18,173 in 2021. [1] The name Warminster occurs first in the early 10th century and the Minster Church of St Denys was begun in the 11th century.
In the aisles are a 14th-century effigy of a lady, and monuments from the 16th and 17th centuries for members of the Topp family of Stockton House and others. [ 9 ] In 1957 the benefice was united with Wylye to form the benefice of Wylye, Stockton and Fisherton Delamere [ 11 ] which was dissolved in 1973 and replaced by the benefice of Codford ...
The Warminster and Westbury Rural District was a rural district in Wiltshire, England from 1935 to 1974. With effect from 1935, it was formed by a County Review Order under the Local Government Act 1929 as a merger of the Warminster Rural District and the Westbury and Whorwellsdown Rural District .
The Warminster Kris Kringle Holiday Market is set to make its triumphant return in 2023 Warminster Kris Kringle Holiday Market When : Saturday, Nov. 4, 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The first town hall in Warminster, which was erected on the north side of the High Street on the corner with the Close, was completed in 1711 [2] but, after it became an obstruction to traffic, it was demolished in 1830. [3] The current building was built on behalf of the 2nd Marquess of Bath [4] and modelled on his ancestral home, Longleat. [1]