Crucifix Cottages At Norridge

Writing in 1928, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, including the following notes in his section on Upton Scudamore:

The lane striking westwards [from Upton Scudamore village] leads to Thoulston (Thor’s Town?) on the Bath Road to meet the old Chapmanslade route at Deadmaids which leads down into Somerset.

A footpath over the fields leads to the site of the chapel at Norridge, whose only survival is a carved stone set in the wall of Crucifix Cottages, so-named from the subject.

Part of the Ordnance Survey map shows the area between Thoulstone and Norridge Wood and Brick Hill, Warminster. On this map Victor Strode Manley added the location of Crucifix Cottages adjacent the A36 Warminster-Bath road at Norridge Common. The map also shows the location of the Chapel site at Norridge Farm. Manley noted that Norridge Farm was also known as Cable’s Farm. This map was included by Manley in his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District.

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