Wilcot
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Coordinates: 51°21′N 1°48′W / 51.35°N 1.80°W
| Wilcot | |
  Wilcot Wilcot shown within Wiltshire | |
| Population | 494 (2001 census)[1] |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference | SU140608 |
| Civil parish | Wilcot |
| Unitary authority | Wiltshire |
| Ceremonial county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PEWSEY |
| Postcode district | SN9 |
| Dialling code | 01672 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Devizes |
Wilcot is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, two miles north-west of Pewsey.
History
The parish was described as follows in The National Gazetteer (1868):
WILCOT, a parish in the hundred of Swanborough, county Wilts, 6 miles S.W. of Marlborough, 10 E. of Devizes, and 1½ mile N.W. of Pewsey. The village is situated close to the Avon and Kennet canal. There are about 200 acres of open downs. The soil is generally a rich loam, and the land chiefly arable. The parish includes the tythings of Draycott-Foliat, Care, and Stowell, or Towel. At the time of the Norman survey it had a church, vineyard, and seat of Edward de Salisbury, and subsequently came to the Lovells, by whom it was held till the reign of Henry VII. There are several chalk pits. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, value £150. The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross. Colonel Wroughton is lord of the manor.[2]
As noted by the Gazetteer, at the time of the Domesday Book Wilcot was one of the manors of Edward of Salisbury, who was High Sheriff of Wiltshire from 1070 to 1105 and had a "very good house" there.[3]
Governance
All significant local government services are provided by the Wiltshire Council unitary authority, with its headquarters in Trowbridge, and the parish is represented there by Paul Oatway, who succeeded Brigadier Robert Hall in 2013. In Parliament it is represented by the Member for the Devizes constituency, Claire Perry.
Notes
- ↑ "Area selected: Wilcot". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ↑ WILCOT, Wiltshire at genuki.org.uk, accessed 20 August 2011
- ↑ Judith A. Green, The Aristocracy of Norman England (2002), p. 62
Further reading
- Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.); Baggs, A. P.; Crowley, D. A.; Pugh, Ralph B.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1975). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 10: Swanborough hundred; the borough of Devizes.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975). The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0 14 0710.26 4 Check
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See also
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