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Sutton Mandeville
Sutton Mandeville is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the Nadder valley and towards the east end of the Vale of Wardour. The village lies south of the river and north of the A30 Shaftesbury-Wilton road, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Wilton and 2.5 miles (4 km) east of the large village of Tisbury.
The hamlet of Sutton Row is about one mile west of Sutton Mandeville village. Lower Chicksgrove, in the northwest of the parish and on the left (north) bank of the Nadder, was transferred from Tisbury parish in 1986.
The Apshill area, south of the river on the road from Sutton Row to Lower Chicksgrove, was also part of the transfer from Tisbury parish. The hamlet here, which includes the Compasses Inn, is unmarked on a 1958 Ordnance Survey map but on some modern maps is labelled as Chicksgrove.
No prehistoric sites are recorded in the area, although an Iron Age hillfort known as Castle Ditches lies to the west in Tisbury parish. Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a settlement of 25 households at Sudtone, with woodland and a mill.
Later landowners included the Wyndham family of Dinton House (later Philipps House).
In 1859 the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway opened their line from Salisbury to Gillingham, following the Nadder valley and crossing the parish north of Sutton Mandeville. The station at Dinton was closed in 1966; Tisbury station remains in use, and the line forms part of the route from London Waterloo to Exeter via Salisbury.
During the First World War, in the fields to the south of the village across to Sutton Down thousands of British and Australian soldiers were encamped in temporary wooden huts, undergoing training and preparation for the battlefields of France and Belgium. They made up two camps, one to the north of the A30 road and another to the south. Soldiers from various regiments were present at different times, among them the 7th Battalion of the London Regiment (known as the Shiny 7th), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, The Royal Field Artillery and the First Australian Imperial Force.
Sutton Mandeville has two hillside badges. Soldiers of the Shiny 7th and the Warwickshire Regiment each carved their regimental cap badges on the chalk downland of Sutton Down in 1916. These were cared for by the Fovant Badges Association until the 1990s, after when they started to become overgrown. In 2018 a local group was formed to uncover the badges and restore them to their former condition; renovation work was carried out in 2018–19 and they are now clearly visible from the A30.
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Sutton Mandeville
Sutton Mandeville is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the Nadder valley and towards the east end of the Vale of Wardour. The village lies south of the river and north of the A30 Shaftesbury-Wilton road, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Wilton and 2.5 miles (4 km) east of the large village of Tisbury.
The hamlet of Sutton Row is about one mile west of Sutton Mandeville village. Lower Chicksgrove, in the northwest of the parish and on the left (north) bank of the Nadder, was transferred from Tisbury parish in 1986.
The Apshill area, south of the river on the road from Sutton Row to Lower Chicksgrove, was also part of the transfer from Tisbury parish. The hamlet here, which includes the Compasses Inn, is unmarked on a 1958 Ordnance Survey map but on some modern maps is labelled as Chicksgrove.
No prehistoric sites are recorded in the area, although an Iron Age hillfort known as Castle Ditches lies to the west in Tisbury parish. Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a settlement of 25 households at Sudtone, with woodland and a mill.
Later landowners included the Wyndham family of Dinton House (later Philipps House).
In 1859 the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway opened their line from Salisbury to Gillingham, following the Nadder valley and crossing the parish north of Sutton Mandeville. The station at Dinton was closed in 1966; Tisbury station remains in use, and the line forms part of the route from London Waterloo to Exeter via Salisbury.
During the First World War, in the fields to the south of the village across to Sutton Down thousands of British and Australian soldiers were encamped in temporary wooden huts, undergoing training and preparation for the battlefields of France and Belgium. They made up two camps, one to the north of the A30 road and another to the south. Soldiers from various regiments were present at different times, among them the 7th Battalion of the London Regiment (known as the Shiny 7th), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, The Royal Field Artillery and the First Australian Imperial Force.
Sutton Mandeville has two hillside badges. Soldiers of the Shiny 7th and the Warwickshire Regiment each carved their regimental cap badges on the chalk downland of Sutton Down in 1916. These were cared for by the Fovant Badges Association until the 1990s, after when they started to become overgrown. In 2018 a local group was formed to uncover the badges and restore them to their former condition; renovation work was carried out in 2018–19 and they are now clearly visible from the A30.