West Tisbury, Wiltshire

West Tisbury is a civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England. The parish takes in the southwestern quarter of the village of Tisbury and extends about 3.8 miles (6.1 km) westward; Tisbury is about 13 miles (21 km) west of Salisbury.

West Tisbury

Junction near Hatch House
West Tisbury
Location within Wiltshire
Population573 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST916290
Civil parish
  • West Tisbury
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSalisbury
Postcode districtSP3
Dialling code01747
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

The settlements in the parish are the following hamlets:

  • East Hatch
  • Kinghay
  • Newtown
  • Tuckingmill, immediately west of Tisbury (not to be confused with Tuckingmill village in Cornwall or Tucking Mill in Somerset)
  • West Hatch (not to be confused with West Hatch civil parish, Somerset)

The River Sem, a tributary of the Nadder, forms almost all of the southern boundary of the parish. The West of England Main Line railway, opened in 1859, follows the same route.

The civil parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

Until 1835 the land now in West Tisbury parish was part of Tisbury parish.[2] In 1986 small areas were transferred from West Tisbury to East Knoyle and Tisbury, the latter comprising housing built in the 1970s.[3]

A school was built at Newtown in 1846 and closed in 1931.[4]

Notable buildings

Pythouse, a Grade II* listed country house, was built near Newtown in about 1725 and then rebuilt in 1805 for the politician John Benett.[5] Nearby Hatch House, from the 17th century and altered in 1908 by Detmar Blow, is also Grade II* listed.[6]

St Andrew's church at Newtown was built in 1911 to designs of Edward Doran Webb, using Chilmark stone salvaged from a former church in the grounds of Pythouse.[7][8] It was a chapel-of-ease of Tisbury until it was declared redundant in 1975,[9] and is now in residential use.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Wiltshire Community History - Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. "Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 13 pp195-248 - Parishes: Tisbury". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  3. "Salisbury (Parishes) Order 1986" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. "John Benett's Endowed School, West Tisbury". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  5. Historic England. "Pythouse (1318819)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  6. Historic England. "Hatch House, West Tisbury (1318818)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  7. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. Wiltshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 356. ISBN 0-14-0710-26-4.
  8. "St Andrew's House, Newtown" (PDF). Savills. onthemarket.com. April 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  9. "No. 46496". The London Gazette. 18 February 1975. p. 2230.

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