Tisbury, Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°04′00″N 2°04′49″W / 51.0668°N 2.0803°W
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Tisbury shown within Wiltshire |
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| Population | 2,056 (2001) |
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| OS grid reference | ST944291 |
| District | Salisbury |
| Shire county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Salisbury |
| Postcode district | SP3 |
| Dialling code | 01747 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Salisbury |
| List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire | |
The large village of Tisbury lies approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.
With a population at the 2001 census of 2,056[1] it is an important local centre for communities around the upper River Nadder and Vale of Wardour. It is the largest settlement within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (larger nearby settlements such as Salisbury and Shaftesbury are just outside it).
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[edit] Transport
Tisbury railway station is on the West of England Main Line, placing its residents within commuting distance of London. The village is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the A303 trunk road linking Andover with the West Country.
[edit] History
The village has some certain historical significance. As in much of the Wiltshire downs, there is evidence of Bronze Age settlement and traces of a probable henge monument with some evidence of settlement 3–4000 years ago. To the southeast of the village there is a quite large hill fort, known as Castle Ditches.[2]
The Saxon settlement came into the possession of Shaftesbury Abbey across the county border in Dorset. The administration centre was the monastic grange, still called Abbey Grange Place Farm. Its 15th-century thatched tithe barn bears the largest thatched roof in England. The old Wardour Castle lies approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the southwest of Tisbury.
The village's 13th-century prosperity came from the quarries that produced stone for the building of Salisbury Cathedral, and from the wool that supported a local cloth industry. The village suffered a serious setback with the Black Death in the mid-14th century but slowly recovered.
On John Speed's map of Wiltshire (1611), the village's name is recorded as Tilburye: the cartographer may have mistaken a long s for an l.
The churchyard of the parish church of St John's holds the graves of Rudyard Kipling's parents, John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling (nee MacDonald). It also holds the second oldest tree in Great Britain, a large yew tree, which is believed to be around 4,000 years old.[3]
Thomas Mayhew (March 31, 1593 – March 25, 1682) who established the first English settlement of Martha's Vineyard in America in 1642 was born in Tisbury.
Some scenes in the 2009 film Morris: A Life with Bells On were filmed in Tisbury, including at the Tisbury Sports Centre[4] and other scenes were filmed at the nearby Compasses Inn at Lower Chicksgrove.
Tisbury has recently become home to The Ashley Wood Festival of the Acoustic Arts which is hosted at Ashley Wood Farm.
[edit] References
- ^ Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Population/Census Information
- ^ Tisbury, Wiltshire
- ^ http://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/salisbury/about-the-area/south-wiltshire-towns-and-villages/tisbury-and-old-wardour-castle
- ^ Mike Turner (13 February 2009). "With bells on! Salisbury basketball players' role in Morris dancing movie". Salisbury Journal. http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/sport/sportgeneral/4125257.With_bells_on__Salisbury_basketball_players__role_in_Morris_dancing_movie/. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
[edit] External links
- Victoria County History information on Tisbury parish
- Photos of Tisbury and surrounding area on geograph
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