Purton Stoke

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Purton Stoke is a small village in north Wiltshire, situated within the civil parish of Purton. The village is located along a side road off of the Purton to Cricklade road, approximately one mile north of Purton village. A small country lane gives access to the nearby hamlet of Bentham, to the south.

1 Amenities
2 'Purton Spa'
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[edit] Amenities

Purton Stoke has a Methodist chapel. The current building opened in 1868, complete with outbuildings for stabling visitors' horses. The village also has a public house by the name of 'The Bell', which is a property of the Arkells Brewery. The village's Post Office has closed. Until relatively recently Purton Stoke had its own primary school. It opened in 1894; and at its peak had 100 pupils. However, numbers dropped continually from the 1930s when older pupils were educated in Purton, until there were only around 30 pupils left in the 1970s. The school closed in 1978. The building is now used for the Jubilee Gardens Project and is situated on Purton to Cricklade road.

[edit] 'Purton Spa'

To the west of the village there is a spring, whose mineral waters supposedly carry medicinal properties. The water has a high concentration of lime phosphate. Locals had used the water for centuries for its health benefits; however, after the wealthy landowner, Mr Sadler, contracted an illness in the mid-19^th century , he tried the water and became markedly better. After this he erected a pump and pump house in the 1850s and the water was sold commercially, until the Second World War.