Hippenscombe
| Hippenscombe | |
| Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
 Hippenscombe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU310561 |
| Location: | 51°18’11"N, 1°33’22"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Marlborough |
| Postcode: | SN8 |
| Dialling code: | 01264 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wiltshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Devizes |
Hippenscombe is a hamlet in the north-east of Wiltshire, poised between the border of Hampshire just to the east and that of the southernmost probing finger of Berkshire to the west. The hamlet sits to the south-west of Oakhill Wood and the north-west of Conholt Park (which both run up to the Hampshire border), about eight miles south of Hungerford, across in Berkshire.
Hippenscombe has a long separate history of its own, having been an extra-parochial area.[1] Much of the land was assigned in 1553 to Edward Seymour (1539–1621), later Earl of Hertford and the builder of Tottenham House in Savernake Forest, and was owned by his descendants until sold by Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury in 1827.[1]
The area was severely affected by the Swing Riots of 1830.
The population taken at 19th-century censuses was never more than 59, and by 1891 had declined to 35.[2]
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) said of Hippenscombe:
HIPPENSCOMBE, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Hants and Berks, 4¼ miles NE of Ludgershall. Acres, 980. Real property, £545. Pop., 42. Houses, 11.[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A History of the County of Wiltshire - Volume 16 pp 226-229: Hippenscombe (Victoria County History)
- ↑ "Hippenscombe CP/ExP/ExP through time | Population Statistics". University of Portsmouth. https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10413461/cube/TOT_POP.
- ↑ Hippenscombe at visionofbritain.org.uk
