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Slaughterford

Village in Wiltshire, England

Slaughterford

Village in Wiltshire, England

FieldValue
countryEngland
coordinates
official_nameSlaughterford
static_image_nameLane through Slaughterford - geograph.org.uk - 1183329.jpg
static_image_captionLane through Slaughterford
unitary_englandWiltshire
lieutenancy_englandWiltshire
regionSouth West England
civil_parishBiddestone and Slaughterford
constituency_westminsterSouth Cotswolds
postcode_districtSN14
postcode_areaSN
post_townCHIPPENHAM
dial_code01249
os_grid_referenceST841739

Slaughterford is a small village in the civil parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, about 5 mi west of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, England. The village has a crossing point of the Bybrook River, and lies in a wooded valley between Castle Combe and Box. Anciently it was a separate parish.

History

The weavers' cottages have 16th-century origins. The present Manor Farmhouse dates from 1753, and attached to it is a late medieval barn. A small 18th-century brewery, now a house, has a prominent chimney that points to its past.

Slaughterford was a separate civil parish with its own church until it was merged with Biddestone on 1 April 1934. Its population at the 1931 census had been 67.

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) states:

Religious sites

Slaughterford parish church

The Church of St Nicholas of Myra is Grade II* listed. Built in the 15th century, it was partly destroyed about 1649 by Richard Cromwell's troops on their way to Ireland, and lay in ruins until rebuilt in 1823. Further restoration in 1883 included tracery for the windows. The tower has a single bell cast by John Rudhall in 1823, and there is a 20th-century sanctus bell. The benefice was united with Biddestone sometime before 1953, and today the parish is part of the Bybrook Team Ministry.

A Quaker meeting house was set up in the village in the 17th century. It became disused and the building collapsed in the 1960s, although the burial ground survives. Among the Quakers of the village were the Cheevers family.

References

References

  1. {{National Heritage List for England
  2. (2021). "Wiltshire". [[Yale University Press]].
  3. {{National Heritage List for England
  4. {{National Heritage List for England
  5. {{National Heritage List for England
  6. "Relationships and changes Slaughterford CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
  7. "Slaughterford AP/CP". University of Portsmouth.
  8. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Slaughterford/ Slaughterford] at genuki.org.uk
  9. {{National Heritage List for England
  10. "Church of St Nicholas, Slaughterford, Biddestone". Wiltshire Council.
  11. "Slaughterford St Nicholas".
  12. {{London Gazette. (6 January 1953)
  13. "St Nicholas, Slaughterford".
  14. "Friends Meeting House, Slaughterford". Wiltshire Council.
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