Calstone Wellington
Calstone Wellington | |
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Church of St. Mary, Calstone | |
Location within Wiltshire | |
OS grid reference | SU025684 |
Civil parish | |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CALNE |
Postcode district | SN11 |
Dialling code | 01249 |
Police | Wiltshire |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Website | www |
Calstone Wellington is a small village and former parish in Wiltshire, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) south-east of Calne and now part of the civil parish of Calne Without. The village has a 15th-century church.
Geography
Anciently, there was a distinction between Calstone (which was a tithing of Calne parish and had no central settlement or church)[1] and the small Calstone Wellington parish (which had a village and St Mary's church). In 1890, both were absorbed into the newly created Calne Without parish.[2] Today, Calstone Wellington has two farms, the church and a few houses. The hamlet of Theobald's Green, which had been in the north of Calstone Wellington parish, remains a small settlement.[3]
The southern boundary of Calstone Wellington was a
The source of the
Name
The name 'Calstone' may have developed from Calne east tun, meaning that the village was a rural extension of the neighbouring town of Calne. In about 1600, a small manor of Calstone was given the name of Calstone Wellington, in which 'Wellington' was the name of the lords of the manor in the 13th and 14th centuries.[2]
History
Calstone was probably part of the large royal estate of
What later became the manor of Calstone Wellington was held in 1086 by Estrild, who held it of Ernulf de Hesdin. The overlordship appears to have descended with the manor of Keevil in the Hesdin and FitzAlan families, and was held by Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, when he died in 1330. Ralph de Wilington held the manor in 1228; the Wiltshire Victoria County History traces its later ownership in the Wilington family – including John de Wilington, 1st Baron Wilington (d. 1338) – and from 1396, by marriage, the Beaumonts and Bassets. In 1584 it was bought by Stephen Duckett (c.1548–1591), whose father Lionel had bought Calne manor and the adjacent Calstone manor in 1572.[2]
Lionel Duckett was a wealthy London merchant who supported early voyages to Africa which paved the way for the
In 1377, Calstone had 79 poll-tax payers.[2] By 1475, a fulling mill was operating in the village. It later became a corn mill. In 1716, Calstone Wellington parish contained only four families,[13] and in 1841 the population was 28.[2] Notes to the 1901 census state that the former parish had nine houses.[14]
The house now called Calstone House began in the 17th century as a farmhouse which by 1728 was known as East Farm. It was remodelled in the 18th century and enlarged in the 19th, and the site ceased to be used as a farm in the late 20th century.[15]
In the early 18th century, the Rev. George Millard founded a
In the early 19th century, before
In 1827, a meeting house was certified for the use of Wesleyan Methodists, and in 1866 they built a chapel at Theobald's Green which remained in use until c.1960.[21] In about 1882 a reservoir to supply water to Calne was created by damming the River Marden in the village.[2]
In 1908,
Governance
On 25 March 1835, as a result of the
In 1890 the whole of Calstone and Blackland, including Calstone Wellington, became part of the new civil parish of Calne Without.[2]
Church
By 1301 a church had been built at the village of Calstone, although what was to become Calstone Wellington remained for a time part of the ecclesiastical parish of Calne.[2]
The present St Mary's parish church, which had that dedication by 1763, was rebuilt in the 15th century of stone rubble and ashlar and has a chancel, a nave, a north porch, a south vestry, and a west tower. The timber roofs of the nave and porch also date from the 15th century. A west gallery was built in the 18th century, and in 1884–1885 the church was carefully restored by Ewan Christian, when the vestry was added, the chancel was re-roofed, narrow windows in the nave and chancel were replaced by larger windows in a 15th-century style, and the gallery was removed.[26] John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, led the reopening ceremony in late 1885.[27]
The church had two bells in 1553. Another made by John Wallis in 1603 was the only bell in the tower until 1885, when two new bells cast by John Taylor & Co. of
In 1881, the ecclesiastical parish – by then known as Calstone Wellington – was united with the benefice of Blackland.[29] In 1962, it was moved into a new union with Heddington,[30] and then in 1973, together with the parishes of Cherhill, Yatesbury, and Compton Bassett, it became part of a new benefice called Oldbury.[2][31]
Representation
Following the
References
- ^ "John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Crowley, D. A., ed. (2002). "Calstone Wellington". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 17. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 123–135. Retrieved 20 March 2022 – via British History Online.
- ^ "Map of Calstone Wellington and Theobald's Green". Streetmap.co.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ Historic England. "Oldbury Camp hillfort, bowl barrow and cross dyke on Cherhill Down (1018611)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ "Calne Without". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ Calstone and Cherhill Downs: Natural England citation sheet Archived 24 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at sssi.naturalengland.org.uk
- ^ Arnold Fellows, England and Wales: a Traveller's Companion (2nd edition, 1964), p. 351 at Google Books
- ^ Calstone (Wellington) in the Domesday Book
- ^ Connell, Tim (7 December 2011). "The City Livery Companies". Gresham College. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Crowley, D. A., ed. (2002). "Calne: Parliamentary representation". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 17. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 100–101. Retrieved 23 March 2022 – via British History Online.
- ^ Lancaster, Henry. "DUCKETT, John (c.1580-1648), of Calstone House, Calne, Wilts.; later of Hartham, Corsham, Wilts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ "No. 12599". The London Gazette. 27 November 1784. p. 1.
- ^ a b Donald A. Spaeth, The Church in an age of danger: parsons and parishioners, 1660–1740, p. 225 online
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- ^ Historic England. "Calstone House (1261810)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ Vicar of Box (1901). "Four Letters written by the Rev. George Millard in 1712–18". Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. 31: 33–41 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, Ref. no. 727/3/1 at wiltshire.gov.uk
- ^ "Calstone Church School, Calne Without". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ John Britton, The Beauties of Wiltshire, Volume 3, p. 403 online
- ^ CALNE, CALSTONE WELLINGTON AND BLACKLAND—An Act (22d of June 1813) for enclosing Lands in these Parishes
- ^ "Methodist Chapel, Calstone Wellington, Calne Without". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ "Ploughing by Oxen, Calstone Wellington". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ "Manor Farm, Calstone Wellington". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ^ "Calstone and Cherhill Downs". National Trust. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Calne, Wiltshire Archived 5 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine at workhouses.org.uk
- ^ a b Historic England. "Church of St Mary (1261809)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "Church Restoration – Grand reopening: with text from the Wiltshire Telegraph". Calstone Wellington. 11 April 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ Calstone Wellington at genuki.org.uk, accessed 10 May 2010
- ^ "No. 24925". The London Gazette. 18 January 1881. pp. 227–228.
- ^ "No. 42800". The London Gazette. 5 October 1962. p. 7751.
- ^ Calstone Wellington: St Mary the Virgin, Calstone Wellington at achurchnearyou.com, accessed 10 May 2010
External links
Media related to Calstone Wellington at Wikimedia Commons
- Village website with social history, old photographs etc.