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St Andrews, Swindon
St Andrews is a civil parish in the borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England, 31⁄2 miles north-northwest of the centre of Swindon, with the A419 forming its northeastern boundary. It is centred on the village of Blunsdon St Andrew, though much of the parish is residential, the result of urban expansion from Swindon. In 2021 it had a population of 19,096. St Andrews is the western half of the former Blunsdon St Andrew civil parish. In April 2017, that parish was divided and the eastern half became a new Blunsdon parish.
The name Blunsdon derives from the Old English Bluntsdūn meaning 'Blunt's hill'.
Blunsdon St Andrew is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of three settlements in the manor of Bluntesdone, in the hundred of Scipa. These settlements lay across Blunsdon Hill on either side of Ermin Way, a Roman road that linked the historic Roman towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), via Corinium (Cirencester). They were held by three different lords, though the record does not differentiate them further. Bluntesdone had altogether ten households, and a total value of £5 17s in 1086.
Blunsdon St Andrew is mentioned as Bluntesdon Seynt Andreu in 1281 in the county Assize Rolls, and again in 1299 in the Sarum Register.
In 1870 Blunsdon St Andrew was recorded as having a population of 84, in 16 households, and covering 1,422 acres. Its value, together with Broad Blunsdon and Bury Blunsdon was £5,858.
Blunsdon Abbey was a Gothic mansion built near Blunsdon St Andrew church in 1858–1860 for wealthy sportsman Joseph Clayton de Windt, on the site of an earlier house. It was destroyed by fire in 1904 and remains as a ruin, with parts of the stable block – including a square tower – standing.
St Andrews parish contains two other Domesday manors, Widhill and Groundwell.
Widhill, land lying north of Blunsdon St Andrew as far as the Roman road and bounded to the west by the River Ray, appears in Domesday Book as two estates at Wildehill with altogether 14 households. The area became a tithing of the parish of St Sampson, Cricklade, and for a time a small chapel served the two small settlements at Lower Widhill and Upper Widhill (sometimes North Widhill and West Widhill respectively). Robert Jenner, who prospered as a silver merchant in London, bought Widhill manor in 1624; the Jenner family remained at Widhill until the manor was sold in 1826.
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St Andrews, Swindon
St Andrews is a civil parish in the borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England, 31⁄2 miles north-northwest of the centre of Swindon, with the A419 forming its northeastern boundary. It is centred on the village of Blunsdon St Andrew, though much of the parish is residential, the result of urban expansion from Swindon. In 2021 it had a population of 19,096. St Andrews is the western half of the former Blunsdon St Andrew civil parish. In April 2017, that parish was divided and the eastern half became a new Blunsdon parish.
The name Blunsdon derives from the Old English Bluntsdūn meaning 'Blunt's hill'.
Blunsdon St Andrew is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of three settlements in the manor of Bluntesdone, in the hundred of Scipa. These settlements lay across Blunsdon Hill on either side of Ermin Way, a Roman road that linked the historic Roman towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), via Corinium (Cirencester). They were held by three different lords, though the record does not differentiate them further. Bluntesdone had altogether ten households, and a total value of £5 17s in 1086.
Blunsdon St Andrew is mentioned as Bluntesdon Seynt Andreu in 1281 in the county Assize Rolls, and again in 1299 in the Sarum Register.
In 1870 Blunsdon St Andrew was recorded as having a population of 84, in 16 households, and covering 1,422 acres. Its value, together with Broad Blunsdon and Bury Blunsdon was £5,858.
Blunsdon Abbey was a Gothic mansion built near Blunsdon St Andrew church in 1858–1860 for wealthy sportsman Joseph Clayton de Windt, on the site of an earlier house. It was destroyed by fire in 1904 and remains as a ruin, with parts of the stable block – including a square tower – standing.
St Andrews parish contains two other Domesday manors, Widhill and Groundwell.
Widhill, land lying north of Blunsdon St Andrew as far as the Roman road and bounded to the west by the River Ray, appears in Domesday Book as two estates at Wildehill with altogether 14 households. The area became a tithing of the parish of St Sampson, Cricklade, and for a time a small chapel served the two small settlements at Lower Widhill and Upper Widhill (sometimes North Widhill and West Widhill respectively). Robert Jenner, who prospered as a silver merchant in London, bought Widhill manor in 1624; the Jenner family remained at Widhill until the manor was sold in 1826.
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