Act 20 G.III c.36. Award. 22 November 1783. W.R.O.23.
Commissioners:
Richard Richardson of Devizes;
Thomas Fricker of Longbridge Deverill;
Richard Bloxham of West Dean.
Surveyor:
Thomas Webb late of Halford, Warwickshire.
Lord of Manor
of Warminster, Corsley, Huntenhull, Whitbourne, and Bugley: Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth;
of Furnax: president and scholars of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and guardians of the Free School of Bruton.
Rector of Warminster, dean and chapter of Salisbury;
lessee Thomas Walter Younge.
Vicar Millington Massey.
Rector of Corsley, Thomas Huntingford (succeeding William Slade, dead).
Area 5,016 a. [4,668 a.]
Warminster Field,
West Field,
Bickenham Field,
Chedlanger Field,
Warminster Down,
Warminster Common,
Clay Hill Field,
Woodman Field,
Boreham Field,
Corsley Wood.
Arn Hill Down,
Norridge Wood,
Henfords Marsh,
Pauletts Meadow,
Bugley Over and Lower Leys,
Spurt Mead,
Hound’s Mead,
Bright Mead.
Allotments 16.
Rector of Warminster 783 a. (including lease, Thomas Walter Younge 783 a.);
Rector of Corsley 56 a.;
Viscount Weymouth 1,864 a. (including leases,
John Barton 27 a.;
William Everett 299 a.;
Jarvis House 37 a.;
Solomon Hughes 39 a.;
Thomas Morgan 51 a.;
William Randall 236 a.;
James Smith 36 a.;
John Whittock 25 a.;
Edward Wilton, 82 a.;
Charles Aldridge ;
Richard Aldridge;
Margery Adlam;
Elizabeth Ayres;
William Bailey;
John Lambe;
Thomas Barter;
John Barter;
William Brock;
Mary Bleak;
William Younge;
John Curtis;
John Provis;
Mary Butler;
John Buckler;
Thomas Cornish;
John Carpenter;
Mary Cary;
George Cary;
Richard Collins;
Anne Elcott;
Henry Ferris;
John Ferris;
Mary Halliday;
Mary Hawkins;
James Hancock;
William Holder;
James Hayes;
Anne Hillier;
John Hughes;
John Humphry;
John Knight;
John Laune;
John Langley;
Edward Larkham;
Jane Love;
George Markes;
Thomas Maskelyn;
George Marvin;
John Maskelyn;
Edward Middlecott;
Solomon Mifflen;
William Mussell;
William Prior;
William Peters;
Jane Prince;
Jacob Smith;
John Seagram;
Roger Shrapnell;
Robert Turner;
Henry Chivers Vince;
William Walker;
John Walter;
William Wansboro;
Pitman Warren;
Joseph Webb;
John Withey;
Mary Webb;
Robert Woodyear;
Richard Wyche;
William Young);
prebendary of Luxfield in Wells Cathedral 225 a. (including lease, Viscount Weymouth 225 a.);
vicar of Warminster 138 a.;
prebendary of Warminster in Salisbury Cathedral 184 a. (including lease, Benjamin and James Ludlow, 184 a.);
John Coope and Elizabeth Jesser 62 a.;
Edward Middlecott 358 a. (including
Mary Bleeck;
John Goodfellow;
Benjamin Harrington;
Lewis Rogers;
William Wilton;
John Lambe;
Edward Miles);
William Slade 98 a.;
Pitman Warren 115 a.;
William Buckler 631 a. (including
Robert Ford;
William Hinton;
John Haines;
Jane Lawrence;
Jane Love;
Sarah Minety;
William Bailey;
John Lambe;
John Curtis;
John Provis;
Lewis Rogers;
George Wansey;
William Wansey;
John Skinner;
John Barter);
president and scholars of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and guardians of the Free School of Bruton 122 a. (including
John Wansey 102 a;
John Langley;
Mary Marsh;
Edward Middlecott;
John Seagram;
William Slade;
John Slade;
Edward Wilton;
William Wilton);
prior and brethren of St. John’s Hospital, Wilton;
feoffees of St. Lawrence’s chapel’
president and scholars of Eton College.
Allotment to all owners of common rights in Norridge Wood of 21 a. (in Norridge Wood).
Fencing to be erected by allottees; vicar of Warminster’s and rector of Corsley’s to be at general expense.
Tithes Allotments in place of rectorial and vicarial tithes, and rent-charge for those with insufficient lands.
Roads 12 public roads, 1 public bridle way and private road, 56 private roads. Herbage allotted.
Finance by sale of lands deducted from allotments to dean and chapter of Salisbury and the prebendary of Luxfield, and the rest by rate.
Maps Thomas Webb of Warminster.
(1) Corsley area.
(2) Norridge Wood and east part of Corsley.
(3) Area south of map 2 and stretching to county boundary between Longleat and detached part of Norton Bavant.
(4) Sambourne and Warminster Common.
(5) Boreham and Battlesbury.
(6) Warminster Field.
(7) Warminster Down.
(8) Pit Mead and Moothill Farm.
(9) Warminster Town.
Tithable inclosures coloured green, allotments outlined in grey.
Whole parish and town with a few minor exceptions shown.
Schedules
(1) 13 schedules of proportions payable for repair of private roads.
(2) Old inclosures exonerated from payment of tithes by deduction of lands from allotments.
(3) Old inclosures exonerated by money payment.
(4) Old inclosures remaining tithable.
(5) Houses and gardens in the town not included in foregoing schedules.
(6) Lands tithe-free by prescription.
See also Bishopstrow and Upton Scudamore Inclosure Awards.
Notes Allotments in place of lands formerly in Upton Scudamore to be in Upton Scudamore in future. Rights of drowning and duties of repair of hatches in the stream from Warminster to Smallbrook Mill determined.