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Little Bedwyn
Little Bedwyn (also spelt Little Bedwin, and sometimes called Bedwyn Parva) is a village and civil parish on the River Dun in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of the market town of Hungerford in neighbouring Berkshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Chisbury.
The Kennet and Avon Canal and the Reading to Taunton railway line follow the Dun and pass through the village. Little Bedwyn is served by Bedwyn railway station, which is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village at Great Bedwyn.
About 0.62 miles (1 km) west of Little Bedwyn is Chisbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort consisting of earthworks which enclose some 14 acres (5.7 ha). Within the camp is the former St Martin's chapel, a Decorated Gothic building of flint, now a farm building. Bedwyn Dyke, an early medieval fortification with similarities to the Wansdyke, stretches some 2.8 km southeast from the hillfort.
Most of Little Bedwyn was part of a larger estate called Bedwyn, which in the early Middle Ages was held by the kings of Wessex and of England. Tenants of the king included (from c.1211) John Russell; a member of the family seated at Kingston Russell, Dorset, he was a household knight of King John. His descendants included William Russell (1257–1311), administrator and defender of the Isle of Wight, elected to parliament for one session to represent Great Bedwyn. The Victoria County History traces later owners.
Anciently the whole parish was within Savernake Forest, but after a redrawing of the forest's boundaries in 1330 only the western part remained in it.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland of 1868 says of Little Bedwyn:
BEDWIN, (or Bedwyn, Little), a parish and village in the hundred of Kinwardstone, in the county of Wilts, 1 mile to the N.E. of Great Bedwyn. It was anciently a part of Great Bedwyn; but was made a separate parish at the beginning of the 15th century. It is situated on the Kennet and Avon canal, and includes the hamlets of Chisbury and Timbridge. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, of the value of £280, in the patronage of the prebendary. The church, an ancient edifice, partly in the Norman style, is dedicated to St. Michael. Chisbury Camp is in this parish. Within the entrenchment are the remains of an old chapel, now converted into a barn. The Wansdyke passes through Little Bedwyn.
In the mid 19th century there was some uncertainty as to whether the parish included about 150 acres (61 ha) of Savernake Forest lying at the parish's western end, but by the 1880s it had been decided that the land was part of the parish. From then until 1987 the total size of the parish was 4,343 acres (1,758 ha). In 1987, an area of 120 acres (49 ha) was transferred to Great Bedwyn.
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Little Bedwyn
Little Bedwyn (also spelt Little Bedwin, and sometimes called Bedwyn Parva) is a village and civil parish on the River Dun in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of the market town of Hungerford in neighbouring Berkshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Chisbury.
The Kennet and Avon Canal and the Reading to Taunton railway line follow the Dun and pass through the village. Little Bedwyn is served by Bedwyn railway station, which is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village at Great Bedwyn.
About 0.62 miles (1 km) west of Little Bedwyn is Chisbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort consisting of earthworks which enclose some 14 acres (5.7 ha). Within the camp is the former St Martin's chapel, a Decorated Gothic building of flint, now a farm building. Bedwyn Dyke, an early medieval fortification with similarities to the Wansdyke, stretches some 2.8 km southeast from the hillfort.
Most of Little Bedwyn was part of a larger estate called Bedwyn, which in the early Middle Ages was held by the kings of Wessex and of England. Tenants of the king included (from c.1211) John Russell; a member of the family seated at Kingston Russell, Dorset, he was a household knight of King John. His descendants included William Russell (1257–1311), administrator and defender of the Isle of Wight, elected to parliament for one session to represent Great Bedwyn. The Victoria County History traces later owners.
Anciently the whole parish was within Savernake Forest, but after a redrawing of the forest's boundaries in 1330 only the western part remained in it.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland of 1868 says of Little Bedwyn:
BEDWIN, (or Bedwyn, Little), a parish and village in the hundred of Kinwardstone, in the county of Wilts, 1 mile to the N.E. of Great Bedwyn. It was anciently a part of Great Bedwyn; but was made a separate parish at the beginning of the 15th century. It is situated on the Kennet and Avon canal, and includes the hamlets of Chisbury and Timbridge. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, of the value of £280, in the patronage of the prebendary. The church, an ancient edifice, partly in the Norman style, is dedicated to St. Michael. Chisbury Camp is in this parish. Within the entrenchment are the remains of an old chapel, now converted into a barn. The Wansdyke passes through Little Bedwyn.
In the mid 19th century there was some uncertainty as to whether the parish included about 150 acres (61 ha) of Savernake Forest lying at the parish's western end, but by the 1880s it had been decided that the land was part of the parish. From then until 1987 the total size of the parish was 4,343 acres (1,758 ha). In 1987, an area of 120 acres (49 ha) was transferred to Great Bedwyn.