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Bradenstoke

Village in Wiltshire, England

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country	England
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static_image_caption	Bradenstoke village street
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official_name	Bradenstoke
civil_parish	Lyneham and Bradenstoke
unitary_england	Wiltshire
lieutenancy_england	Wiltshire
region	South West England
constituency_westminster	Chippenham
post_town	Chippenham
postcode_district	SN15
postcode_area	SN
dial_code	01249
os_grid_reference	SU002795
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Bradenstoke is a village in Wiltshire, England, lying to the north of the former RAF Lyneham airbase and 1.5 mi northwest of Lyneham. Originally lying within Braydon Forest, the "stoke" means "settlement".

Largely consisting of a long and narrow main street, the village has a church, one chapel (it used to have two chapels but the Methodist Chapel has been converted into a dwelling), a village hall and a pub. The Post Office closed in 2008.

History

Bradenstoke is the oldest community in the present-day parish, with 42 households recorded at Stoche in Domesday Book. In 1866, the ecclesiastical parish of Bradenstoke-cum-Clack was created for the newly built church. The name Bradenstoke was revived in the mid-twentieth century and is now used exclusively.

A medieval limestone village cross stands at the side of the road near the church, having been moved from the middle of the road in the 20th century. Now headless, its base serves as a war memorial.

An independent congregation{{cite web|title=Bradenstoke Chapel, Wiltshire

The church of St Mary the Virgin was built in 1866 at the expense of Gabriel Goldney to designs of C.F. Hansom, as a chapelry of the parish church at Lyneham. In the same year an ecclesiastical parish called Bradenstoke-cum-Clack was created for the new church, from parts of the parishes of Lyneham and Christian Malford.{{London Gazette

Local government

The civil parish elects a parish council called Lyneham and Bradenstoke Parish Council. The parish is in the area of Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

Priory

Main article: Bradenstoke Priory

The former Bradenstoke Priory was founded in 1142 by Walter D’Evereaux, sheriff of Wiltshire, for the Augustinians. Having fallen into disrepair after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was dismantled in 1930 to provide building material for the renovation of St Donat's Castle in Wales, which had been bought by William Randolph Hearst. Most of the priory, including the roof, was unused and its whereabouts is now unknown.

A 15th-century timber-framed building in Bradenstoke village is reputedly a guesthouse for the priory; it was converted to a house in the 16th century and divided into three cottages in the 18th, and is now Grade II* listed.

Bradenstoke Abbey Farmhouse carries a date of 1780 and has some reused stonework from the priory.

Clack Mount

Close to the priory are earthworks known as Clack Mount ("clack" meaning "hill"). The site may pre-date the priory, and has ditches and ponds which were probably fishponds for the priory. A mound – 19m in diameter and 1.5m high – has been described as a motte-and-bailey castle although its early history is uncertain.

Sources

References

"Lyneham parish". Wiltshire Council.
Streetfield, Emma. (31 March 2008). "Community heartbeat being taken away". Swindon Advertiser.
{{OpenDomesday. SU0079. bradenstoke. Bradenstoke
{{London Gazette. (29 June 1866)
"Question: Clack". Wiltshire Council.
{{National Heritage List for England
{{National Heritage List for England
"Providence Baptist Chapel, Bradenstoke". Wiltshire Council.
{{National Heritage List for England
Aslet, Clive. (2012). "The Edwardian Country House". [[Frances Lincoln]].
{{National Heritage List for England
{{National Heritage List for England
"Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 9, pp90-104 – Parishes: Lyneham". University of London.
{{National Heritage List for England
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