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Sutton Mandeville

Sutton Mandevilleis a small village andcivil parishinWiltshire,England, in theNaddervalley and towards the east end of theVale of Wardour.The village lies south of the river and north of theA30Shaftesbury-Wiltonroad, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Wilton and 2.5 miles (4 km) east of the large village ofTisbury.

Sutton Mandeville
All Saints Church
Sutton Mandeville is located in Wiltshire
Sutton Mandeville
Sutton Mandeville
Location withinWiltshire
Population232 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST987289
Civil parish
  • Sutton Mandeville
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSALISBURY
Postcode districtSP3
Dialling code01722
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Wiltshire
51°03′32″N2°01′12″W/ 51.059°N 2.020°W/51.059; -2.020

Hamlets

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The hamlet ofSutton Rowis 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.[2]

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.[2]The hamlet here, which includes theCompasses Inn,[3]is unmarked on a 1958 Ordnance Survey map[4]but on some modern maps is labelled asChicksgrove.[5]

History

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No prehistoric sites are recorded in the area, although anIron Agehillfortknown asCastle Ditcheslies to the west in Tisbury parish.[6]Domesday Bookin 1086 recorded a settlement of 25 households atSudtone,with woodland and a mill.[7]

Later landowners included the Wyndham family of Dinton House (laterPhilipps House).[8]

In 1859 theSalisbury and Yeovil Railwayopened their line from Salisbury to Gillingham, following the Nadder valley and crossing the parish north of Sutton Mandeville. The station atDintonwas closed in 1966;[9]Tisburystation remains in use, and the line forms part of the route from London Waterloo to Exeter via Salisbury.

During theFirst 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.[10]Soldiers from various regiments were present at different times, among them the7th Battalion of the London Regiment[11](known as the Shiny 7th),The Royal Warwickshire Regiment,[12]The Royal Field Artillery[13]and theFirst Australian Imperial Force.[14]Soldiers of the Shiny 7th and the Warwickshire Regiment carved their regimental cap badges on the chalk downland of Sutton Down. These were cared for by theFovant Badges Associationuntil 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.[15]

The Warwickshire Regiment badge on the hillside

Parish church

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Theparish churchdedicated to All Saints, built in uncoursed dressed limestone, dates from the 13th century; the chancel arch is from that period. The chancel was restored in 1850 and there was further restoration in 1862. The church was recorded asGrade II* listedin 1966.[16]

The three-stage west tower was built in the 15th century and carries three bells: one possibly dated 1399, the others cast by John Wallis in 1615 and 1616.[17]In the churchyard is a late 17th-century sundial, restored in the 19th century.[18]

At some point the benefice was united with those ofFovantandCompton Chamberlayne.In 1979 the benefice ofTeffont EviaswithTeffont Magnawas added to the union[19]and a team ministry was established, today known as the Nadder Valley benefice and covering fourteen parishes with sixteen churches.[20]

Notable buildings

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Church Farmhouse, now a dwelling, began as a cottage in the 17th century.[8]An 18th-century watermill on the Nadder, northwest of the village, was in use to grind flour until the 1940s.[21][22]

Chicksgrove Manor at Lower Chicksgrove isGrade II* listed.The house, in rubble stone under a thatched roof, has 14th-century origins and is described byHistoric Englandas "a very fine Wiltshire manor house retaining many features from different periods of its development".[23]Behind the house is an 18th-century timber-framed granary, onstaddle stones.[24]

Apshill House, part of the hamlet between Sutton Row and Lower Chicksgrove, dates from the 14th century and was altered and extended in the 16th and 17th. Historic England state it is "an unusual survival of ahall house".[25]The Compasses Inn, in the same hamlet, is a late 17th-century building.[26]

Governance

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The parish has a locally elected parish council, which was created in 1974 to replace the earlierparish meeting.This is consulted on all parish matters, while most significantlocal governmentfunctions are carried out byWiltshire Council,aunitary authority.

Notable people

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  • John Wyndham(1870–1933), cricketer and army officer, born in the parish

References

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  1. ^"Wiltshire Community History – Census".Wiltshire Council.Retrieved23 May2015.
  2. ^abFreeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H. (1987). Crowley, D. A. (ed.)."Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 13 pp195-248 – Parishes: Tisbury".British History Online.University of London.Retrieved23 May2015.
  3. ^"The Compasses Inn, Chicksgrove".Retrieved12 April2020.
  4. ^"Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, sheet ST92".National Library of Scotland.1958.Retrieved12 April2020.
  5. ^"Election Maps".Ordnance Survey.Retrieved12 April2020.
  6. ^Historic England."Castle Ditches camp (1005701)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved13 April2020.
  7. ^Sutton Mandevillein theDomesday Book
  8. ^abHistoric England."Church Farmhouse (1250706)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved13 April2020.
  9. ^Oakley, Mike (2004).Wiltshire Railway Stations.Wimborne: The Dovecote Press. pp. 56–57.ISBN1-904349-33-1.
  10. ^"The Camps".The Sutton Badges.Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust.Retrieved31 January2021.
  11. ^"The People: 3/7th London Regiment".Sutton Badges.Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust.Retrieved31 January2021.
  12. ^"The People: Royal Warwickshire Regiment".Sutton Badges.Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust.Retrieved31 January2021.
  13. ^"The People: Royal Field Artillery".Sutton Badges.Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust.Retrieved31 January2021.
  14. ^"The People: Australian Imperial Force".Sutton Badges.Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust.Retrieved31 January2021.
  15. ^"What We are Doing".Sutton Badges.Sutton Mandeville Heritage.Retrieved31 January2021.
  16. ^Historic England."Church of All Saints, Sutton Mandeville (1318693)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved12 April2020.
  17. ^"Sutton Mandeville".Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers.Retrieved12 April2020.
  18. ^Historic England."Churchyard sundial (1250703)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved13 April2020.
  19. ^"No. 48010".The London Gazette.20 November 1979. p. 14600.
  20. ^"Nadder Valley (Team Ministry)".A Church Near You.Retrieved12 April2020.
  21. ^Historic England."Sutton Mandeville Mill (1146289)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved14 April2020.
  22. ^"Watermill, Sutton Mandeville".Mills Archive.Retrieved14 April2020.
  23. ^Historic England."Chicksgrove Manor (1146012)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved14 April2020.
  24. ^Historic England."Granary at Chicksgrove Manor (1146013)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved14 April2020.
  25. ^Historic England."Apshill House (1318814)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved14 April2020.
  26. ^Historic England."The Compasses Inn (1145999)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved14 April2020.
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