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Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Bishopstrow, Wiltshire Cley Hill, Wiltshire Fisherton de la Mere, Wiltshire King Barrow Norton Bavant, Wiltshire Oxendean Long Barrow Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire Warminster, Wiltshire Arn Hill Long Barrow Cold Kitchen Hill Long Barrow Brixton Deverill, Wiltshire Hill Deverill, Wiltshire Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire Boles Barrow Brixton Deverill 7 Long Barrow Sutton Veny Long Barrow Saints Peter and Paul Church, Longbridge Deverill

Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire is in Wiltshire.

Arn Hill, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Arn Hill Long Barrow, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Arn Hill Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Warminster. 11. [Arn Hill Long Barrow [Map]] On the down N. of Arn Hill, and close to and E. of Colloway Clump. Length 132ft; S.W. and N.E. Opened by Wm. Cunnington in 1802. " At the south end was a sarsen stone 5ft. high, terminating almost in a point, and placed in an upright position. Near it lay the bones of three skeletons, which appeared to have been deposited on the south and south-east of the stone, with heads towards the east. They were all placed on a rude pavement of marl, and over them was thrown a pile of large loose stones. There are probably other, and more ancient, interments in this tumulus " A. W. I. 65.

Hoare speaks of the barrow as "recently planted," and there are now large beech trees, evidently of considerable age, growing on it; it stands on ploughed ground, and the ditches have disappeared, but the mound itself, in spite of the trees and bushes, is still in good condition; it is of a considerable height and width at the S. end. but tapers very much, ending almost in a sharp ridge. O.M. 51 N E.; A. W. I. 65; Arch, xliii. 189.

Note 1. Thurnam refers to this barrow as "Arn Hill."

Bishopstrow, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Cley Hill, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Cley Hill, Wiltshire is also in Iron Age Hill Forts Wiltshire.

Cley Hill, Wiltshire [Map]Historic England:

The monument includes a large univallate hillfort, two bowl barrows, two flights of medieval strip lynchets and a cross dyke situated on Cley Hill, a steep sided Middle and Upper Chalk outlier of Salisbury Plain rising sharply from low lying clay land to the west of Warminster. The hillfort defences comprise a steep scarp up to 7m high surrounded by a flat berm up to 4m wide, enclosing an area of 7ha on the top of the hill. To the east and north east traces of an outer bank up to 3m high survive at the edge of the berm. Crossing the enclosed area, a scarp up to 1.7m high on a false crest of the hill, runs from north east to south west and may represent an earlier defence or a division within the hillfort. To the east there is a break in the ramparts where a natural bowl cut into this side of the hill provides a steep gradient on which defences were not necessary. To the south west a large post-medieval quarry has removed one corner of the hill, including most of the defences on this side, although some traces of the berm are still visible at the quarry base. At the summit of the hill is a large flat-topped bowl barrow. The mound of the barrow is 4m high and 28m in diameter, and is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. This has become partially buried, but is visible to the north and south where it is 6m wide and 0.3m deep. The barrow was partially excavated by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington in the early 19th century, who found traces of wheat. Another bowl barrow 50m to the SSE comprises a mound 1.5m high and 22m in diameter surrounded by a quarry ditch 3m wide and 0.1m deep. This barrow was also partially excavated by Hoare and Cunnington who found an interment of burnt bone. The southern edge of the mound is crossed by a linear feature running from south west to north east, interpreted as a cross dyke. It comprises a bank 0.3m high and 2.2m wide flanked to the north by a ditch 0.1m deep and 1.1m wide. The cross dyke runs 170m from the edge of the quarry to the steep side of the hill to the east. Below the hillfort on the south and west sides are medieval strip lynchets, terraces built in order to cultivate on the slope, which rise up the gentle incline at the base of the hill. The steep risers, or scarps, stand up to 4m high while the flatter treads, which were cultivated, are up to 7m wide. All fence posts and cattle troughs are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath these features is included.

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Cold Kitchen Hill, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Cold Kitchen Hill Long Barrow, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Cold Kitchen Hill Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Brixton Deverill. 2. On Cold Kitchen Hill [Cold Kitchen Hill Long Barrow [Map]], W. of one ditch and N of another, and almost due N". of Kingston Deverill Church [Map]. Length 174ft.; S.S.E. and N.N.W. There seems to be no record of this barrow; probably unopened. A very fine barrow, in excellent condition, with ditches well defined. There are several slight sinkings in the mound, that may mark places of interment or openings. The mound does not quite fill the space between the ditches at the northern end, leaving a slight platform or berm on either side. For similar berms see below. Brixton Deverill 7. O.M. 57 NE.; A.W. I. Map of Stourton Station.

Deverills, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Fisherton de la Mere, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Imber, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Boles Barrow, Imber, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Boles Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Boles Barrow [Map] is a Long Barrow located on Salisbury Plain. 150 feet in length, ninety-four in breadth, and ten and a half in height.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1922 V41 Pages 172-174. "Blue hard stone, ye same as at Stonehenge," found in Boles [Bowles] Barrow [Map] (Heytesbury, I.)

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1924 V42 Pages 431-437. 1924. The "Blue Stone" From Boles Barrow [Map]1 By B. Howard Cunnington (age 63), F.S.A., Scot.

Note 1. The Society is indebted to Mr. Cunnington for the kind gift of the plates illustrating this paper. - Editor

King Barrow, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

King Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Warminster1. 14. "King Barrow [Map]," in the grounds of Bishopstrow House, on the boundary of Warminster and Bishopstrow parish. Length 206ft. (Hoare); N. and S. Opened on two occasions by Hoare and Cunnington in the beginning of the 19th century. They found secondary interments, but apparently failed to find the primary one. Hoare states that a great deal of the mound was carted away in his time, and that the then occupier of the land intended to level the whole of it. Happily this was not done, and the mound now measures in length the same as in Hoare's time (206ft.), and is still high and steep. It is planted with trees and bushes, a large cedar tree standing on its northern end. O.M. 52 N W.; A. W. I. 72; Arch. xlii. 180.

Note 1. Thurnam refers to this barrow as " Boreham."

Kingston Deverill, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Brixton Deverill 7 Long Barrow, Kingston Deverill, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Brixton Deverill 7 Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Brixton Deverill. 7. [Brixton Deverill 7 Long Barrow [Map]] S.E. of Brixton Deverill, and E. of Monkton Deverill, on the down to the N.W. of Lower Pertwood Farm. Length 278ft.; nearly E. and W. There seem to be no records of this barrow; apparently unopened. A very fine barrow, in excellent condition, with unusually well defined deep ditches, standing on unploughed down in a rather remote situation. The ditches are not straight, but curve inwards towards the mound in the middle, and outwards from the mound at both ends. There is also the rather unusual feature of a distinct berm, or level platform, between the fringe of the mound and the inner edges of the ditches. For similar berms see Brixton Deverill 2 and Milston 39. O.M. 57 SE.; A. W. I. Map of Stourton Station.

For Long Barrow in Brixton Deverill parish now destroyed see end of this list.

St Mary's Church, Kingston Deverill, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

St Mary's Church, Kingston Deverill is also in Churches in Wiltshire.

Longleat, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Longleat House, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

In 1550 Anne Thynne was born to John Thynne (age 35) and Christian Gresham (age 28) at Longleat House.

In 1551 Dorothy Thynne was born to John Thynne (age 36) and Christian Gresham (age 29) at Longleat House.

Around 1560 Elizabeth Thynne was born to John Thynne (age 45) and Christian Gresham (age 38) at Longleat House.

In 1691 Bishop Thomas Ken (age 53) was deprived of his See by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 40) and Mary Stewart II Queen England Scotland and Ireland (age 28). He was given lodgings at Longleat House by Thomas Thynne 1st Viscount Weymouth (age 51) with whom he was at Oxford. He resided at Longleat for some twenty years.

On 17 Oct 1710 John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville (age 20) and Frances Worsley Countess Granville (age 17) were married at Longleat House. She by marriage Countess Granville. He the son of George Carteret 1st Baron Carteret and Jane Granville Baroness Gower (age 56).

Prodigy House. A large house built in the Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean periods defined by their use of glass. Prodigy houses include: Longford Castle, Wiltshire [Map], Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire, Longleat House, Burghley House, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire and Hardwick Hall [Map].

Norton Bavant, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Oxendean Long Barrow, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Oxendean Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Warminster1. 6. [Oxendean Long Barrow [Map]] By Oxendean, N. of Battlesbury Camp, W. of the Imber — Warminster road. Length 106ft.; S.E. and N.W. Opened by Cunnington and Hoare, who found "an interment of a skeleton near the centre2, in a cist cut in the native soil beneath the floor of the barrow; and over it, near the surface, was a small cup of rude British pottery."3 It was re-opened by Thurnam, who found the remains of the skeleton but with no further result. This barrow is on unploughed ground, in good condition, with ditches well defined, especially on the N.E. side. O.M. 52 NW.; A. W. I. 66; Arch. xlii. 180.

Note 1. Thurnam refers to this barrow as "Warminster."

Note 2. Thurnam remarks that the burial was nearer the E. end than this description implies.

Note 3. Stourhead Catalogue. Number 202.

Sutton Veny, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles

Sutton Veny Long Barrow, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Sutton Veny Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Sutton Veny. 2. [Sutton Veny Long Barrow [Map]] In grass field to the N.N.W. of the old Church of St. Leonard. Hoare shows a " Long " barrow in this position. The O.M. shows it as a large circular mound, and in its present condition it has no resemblance to a "Long" barrow, but in deference to Hoare, who saw it in a more perfect condition, it must be regarded as one. It is of great size, and level on top, and now looks more like a "motte" mound than anything else. It is shown by Hoare as unopened, and as lying S. and N. O.M. 52 SW.; A. W. I. Map of Wylye Station.

Upton Scudamore, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

The River Biss rises near Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire [Map] as the Biss Brook after which it flows past Westbury, Wiltshire [Map] to Yarnbrook, Wiltshire [Map] where it becomes the River Biss. Thereafter it continues north through Trowbridge, Wiltshire [Map] after which it joins the Gloucestershire River Avon.

Warminster, Warminster Hundred, Wiltshire, South-West England, British Isles [Map]

Around 1195 Hugh Giffard was born to Walter Giffard (age 62) at Warminster, Wiltshire [Map].

Around 1246 Hugh Giffard (age 51) died at Warminster, Wiltshire [Map].