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Wiltshire

Cold Kitchen Hill stands at the centre of the Deverill valley.

Rebuilt and much altered c. 1700, Hill Deverill manor house is a two-storey stone house of medieval origins.

Lying between the river Wylye and the Warminster to Shaftesbury road (A350), Sir James Thynne’s almshouses are a two-storey stone building with sto

Since 1940 about 94 acres of grassland ploughed up; some land taken for military use in Codford’s Manor Farm. At the larger East Farm, almost 400 a

Aerial photography can reveal evidence of past landscapes, often very difficult to detect on the ground.

The Hungerfords were one of the largest West Country magnate families. Their family seat was Farleigh Hungerford in Somerset near Trowbridge.

Although (as in the First World War) many regiments of British Servicemen were garrisoned at Codford, during the Second World War they were also jo

Codford has a number of ancient farms.

Codford, one of its most prominent citizens, James Raxworthy were at the centre of the Captain Swing riots in Wiltshire.

During the Victorian period, many parish churches were rebuilt or ‘restored’ to look like an idealised version of their medieval selves.

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