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Hullavington

Coordinates:51°32′10″N2°09′14″W/ 51.536°N 2.154°W/51.536; -2.154
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Hullavington
The Street, Hullavington
Hullavington is located in Wiltshire
Hullavington
Hullavington
Location withinWiltshire
Population1,223 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST894820
Civil parish
  • Hullavington
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townChippenham
Postcode districtSN14
Dialling code01666
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
WebsiteParish Council
List of places
UK
England
Wiltshire
51°32′10″N2°09′14″W/ 51.536°N 2.154°W/51.536; -2.154

Hullavingtonis a village andcivil parishinWiltshire,England, just to the north of theM4 motorway.The village lies about 4 miles (6 km) southwest ofMalmesburyand5+1⁄2miles (9 km) north ofChippenham.

TheFosse Way,aRoman road,forms the western boundary of the parish. TheGauze Brook,a tributary of theBristol Avon,crosses the parish from southwest to northeast.

History

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A settlement of 35 households at Hunlavintone was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and at that time the land was held byRalf de Mortimer.[2][3]The place-name means 'the town of Hunlaf's people'.[4]The spellingHunlavyngtonis recorded in 1418.[5]

Hullavington church and manor belonged to the abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux (Saint-Victor-l'Abbaye,Seine-Maritime) in the early Middle Ages. The establishment also hadClatfordmanor, some 18 miles (29 km) to the southeast, and was known asClatford Prioryor Hullavington Priory.[6]In 1443 its land was given toEton College,who retained it until 1958.[7]

The monastic house was presumably northwest of the church; Court House was built on that site in the 16th century, with alterations and extension in the 17th and later centuries.[7][8]

Bradfield (north of Hullavington village) and Surrendell (in the west of the modern parish) were recorded in the Domesday Book[9][10]and became medieval hamlets, then declined to single farmsteads. Bradfield had 21 poll-tax payers in 1377 but by the later 15th century there were no buildings beyond the manor house and its farm.[7]Bradfield Manor Farmhouse, nowGrade I listed,[11]is described by Pevsner as a "rare survival of a C15 hall".[12]

Surrendell had a church in 1249, and 37 poll-tax payers in 1377.[7]A manor house was built in the 16th century[7]and Surrendell farmhouse was begun c. 1620-40.[13][14]The church was in ruins in the late 17th century and the manor house was demolished c. 1871.[7]Apillow moundrabbit warren, some 36 metres in length, survives near Surrendell Farm.[15]

Schooling began in a small way in the village in 1690. Two small schools, which becameNational Schools,were built in 1832 and 1833; the larger of them, on the east side of The Street, was enlarged in 1873 and became the sole school in 1879. A new school was built on the northern edge of the village in 1970.[16]In 1903 theGreat Western Railwayopened theSouth Wales Main Linewhich passes to the north of Hullavington village, and had astationon the road towardsNorton.The station closed to passengers in 1961 and to goods traffic in 1965; the line remains in use but there are no longer any local stations on this stretch between Swindon and Bristol Parkway.[17]

The parish population at the beginning of the nineteenth century was 395 (1801 census), rising to 823 in 1901 and was 1,223 in 2011.[1]

Parish church

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St Mary's Church, Hullavington

TheChurch of England parish churchof St Mary was begun in the 12th century. The three-bay north arcade is from the late 12th century while the south arcade and northeast Bradfield chapel are from the 13th century.[18]The timber roof of the north aisle is 15th century, and there are pew ends from the same period.[19]Restorationtook place in the early 1870s and the tower was rebuilt in 1880, both to designs ofA.W. Blomfield[20]or his nephewReginald Blomfield.[19]

At one time the church had a plaque commemorating the death at Malmesbury in 1703 ofHannah Twynnoy,believed to be the first person in Britain to have been killed by a tiger. Her gravestone with its inscribed epitaph can still be seen atMalmesbury Abbey.[21]

The church was designated asGrade I listedin 1959.[19]The parish is now one of eight served by the Gauzebrook group ministry.[22]

Local government

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Hullavington is acivil parishwith an electedparish council.It is in the area ofWiltshire Council,aunitary authority,which is responsible for most local government functions.

Amenities

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Hullavington has a garage, a shop, a pub and two churches, one of which meets in the village hall. The village school continues as HullavingtonCofEPrimary School, where pupils include those from families posted toBuckley Barracks.[23]There are threeGirlguidingunits in Hullavington:Brownies,Rainbowsand aGuideunit which opened in September 2007.

Military connections

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Main article:Hullavington Airfield

Hullavington Airfield, formerly RAF Hullavington, is next to the village. Most of the airfield is in the neighbouring parish ofStanton St Quintin,along with the associated barracks which were renamedBuckley Barracksin 2003.

Notable residents

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Jazz vocalist and pianistJamie Cullumwas brought up in Hullavington. The formerMPNeil Hamiltonand his wifeChristinemoved to Hullavington in October 2004.[24]

References

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  1. ^ab"Wiltshire Community History – Census".Wiltshire Council.Retrieved15 February2015.
  2. ^Hullavingtonin theDomesday Book
  3. ^Henry Alworth Merewether; Archibald John Stephens (1835).The History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom(pdf).Stevens and sons. p.154.Retrieved22 September2008.Hunlavintone.
  4. ^Eilert Ekwall,Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names,p. 256.
  5. ^Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/629, dated 1418;http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0115.htm;second entry, line 1, home of Ralph Heyne, husbandman
  6. ^Pugh, R.B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956)."Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 3 pp393-394 - Alien houses: Priory of Clatford or Hullavington".British History Online.University of London.Retrieved27 September2017.
  7. ^abcdefBaggs, A.P.; Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H, eds. (1991)."Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 14 pp104-118 - Parishes: Hullavington".British History Online.University of London.Retrieved20 September2017.
  8. ^Historic England."Court House (1198935)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved26 September2017.
  9. ^Bradfieldin theDomesday Book
  10. ^Surrendellin theDomesday Book
  11. ^Historic England."Bradfield Manor Farmhouse, Hullavington (1198808)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved15 February2015.
  12. ^Pevsner, Nikolaus;Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963].Wiltshire.The Buildings of England(2nd ed.). Harmondsworth:Penguin Books.p. 275.ISBN0-14-0710-26-4.
  13. ^Historic England."Surrendell Farmhouse (1198980)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved20 September2017.
  14. ^Historic England."Barn to the east of Surrendell Farmhouse (1023212)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved20 September2017.
  15. ^Historic England."Pillow mound 280m south west of Surrendell Farm (1018610)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved20 September2017.
  16. ^"Hullavington Church of England School".Wiltshire Community History.Wiltshire Council.Retrieved27 September2017.
  17. ^Oakley, Mike (2004).Wiltshire Railway Stations.Wimborne: The Dovecote Press. pp. 70–71.ISBN1-904349-33-1.
  18. ^"St Mary, Hullavington".Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture.King's College London.Retrieved20 September2017.
  19. ^abcHistoric England."Church of St Mary (1356040)".National Heritage List for England.Retrieved20 September2017.
  20. ^"Church of St. Mary, Hullavington".Wiltshire Community History.Wiltshire Council.Retrieved20 September2017.
  21. ^"Hannah Twynnoy".Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury.Retrieved20 September2017.
  22. ^"Hullavington: St Mary Magdalene".Gauzebrook Group Ministry.Retrieved20 September2017.
  23. ^"About Us".Hullavington CofE Primary and Nursery School.Retrieved27 September2017.
  24. ^Williams, James (25 April 2008)."At home with the Hamiltons".Wiltshire Times.Retrieved15 February2015.
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