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4 days ago · The lands may have been those which, as part of one of the manors in Alvediston called Trow, were held with Norrington manor in Alvediston from the 16th century.
3 days ago · The village lies on both sides of the Tisbury—Alvediston road: west of it Ansty Coombe, so called in the 13th century, (fn. 7) takes its name from its position in a narrow valley.
2 days ago · From the early 17th century Bower Chalke and Alvediston churches were considered chapels of Broad Chalke. Separation of the livings was proposed in 1650 but did not, apparently, take place. Alvediston became a separate living in 1861 as did Bower Chalke in 1880.
2 days ago · At Alvediston the inclosures of field land and the ploughing up of 120 acres of down before 1758, and the parliamentary inclosure of 1792, were marked by a more rapid decline in the class of family farmers.
1 day ago · Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... War had also strengthened the British state at home. The need to raise men and money had increased the size and scope of the executive as well as the power and prestige of the House of Commons.
1 day ago · Stonehenge, prehistoric stone circle monument, cemetery, and archaeological site located on Salisbury Plain, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 BCE, during the transition from the Neolithic Period to the Bronze Age.
1 day ago · The Renaissance reached England through Italian courtiers, who reintroduced artistic, educational and scholarly debate from classical antiquity. England began to develop naval skills, and exploration intensified in the Age of Discovery.
