Category: Eastleigh Wood / Eastley Wood (in Sutton Veny)

Oak Trees And Faggots Sale

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 20th June 1868:

Front page

Advert for sale of 150 Oak Trees and 140 oak saplings at Eastleigh Woods, in Lord’s Coppice. Also 3,100 heavy and well made faggots of oak, and 500 capital underwood faggots at Middle Eight Acres Coppice, 5 p.m. 30th June 1868.

Eastley Wood On A Map Of 1835

A piece of woodland with the name Eastley Wood is numbered 60 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

60
Premises: Eastley Wood.
Occupier: Ambrose Patient.
State: wood.
Measure: 20 acres, 1 rood, 1 perch.
Parish: Sutton Veny.