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West Lavington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the north edge of Salisbury Plain, on the A360 road between Devizes and Salisbury, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Devizes.
Melksham Without parish council logo on a bus stop near Berryfield. Melksham Without is a civil parish in the county of Wiltshire, England.It surrounds, but does not include, the town of Melksham and is the largest rural parish in Wiltshire, with a population of 7,230 (as of 2011) [1] and an area of 29 square kilometres (7,200 acres).
An announcement was made in the Bath Chronicle in June 1792 of the establishment of the Melksham Bank by the firm of Awdry, Long & Bruges. In November 1813 the misquoting of part of an advertisement in two London newspapers caused panic amongst the bank customers, many of whom quickly withdrew their money, reportedly causing "some bustle" among the partners of the bank.
The manor of Shaw was recorded in the 13th century and became a tithing of Melksham parish. By 1335 there was a chapel of St Leonard, but there are no records of this chapel after 1460. [2] The higher ground to the west of the village was known as Shaw Hill. [3] Shaw House, built in 1711 and extended c. 1840, is Grade II* listed. [4]
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet, CB, FRCS (4 July 1856 – 16 January 1943) was a British surgeon and physician. He mastered orthopaedic, abdominal, and ear, nose and throat surgery, while designing new surgical instruments toward maximal asepsis.
After significant population growth, largely associated with Melksham's status as a market town, the area became an urban district in 1894. [10] By 1907 the cheese store was being used as a drill hall by a detachment of B Squadron, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [ 11 ] and, in 1911, the suffragettes , Annie Kenney and Mildred Mansel gave a speech ...
St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church in the town of Melksham, Wiltshire, England. The church stands some 200 metres northwest of the town's marketplace. With 12th-century origins, the building was altered and enlarged in the 14th and 15th centuries, and restored in the 19th.
The site was sold in 2011 to Wiltshire Council, [6] and in 2021 work began to redevelop it into a "campus" of council and health services, [7] although the future fate of Melksham House is still to be determined. The sports ground on the southern part of the site was the home of Melksham Town F.C. from 1926, and was also used by Melksham Rugby ...