The Salisbury and Winchester Journal, issue dated Monday 19 June, 1820, features the following notice:
NOTICE is hereby given, That on this present seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, an Order was signed by Abraham Ludlow and William Temple, Esquires, two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in and for the county off Wilts, for diverting, turning, and stopping up a part of a certain ancient Public Footway, of the breadth of four feet, and of a length of two hundred and eighty one yards, leading from Upton Lovell, in the said county of Wilts, to the Tything of Corton, within the parish of Boyton, in the said county, commencing at the Southwest corner of a certain Bridge opposite the Factory of John Gale Everett, Esquire, adjoining to Mill Mead, also belonging to the said John Gale Everett, at Upton Lovell aforesaid, and extending from thence Northward on the West side of the River there, of the length of eighty-five yards, unto Pill Hatches there, and continuing from thence in a westerly direction through certain land belonging to the said John Gale Everett, in Upton Lovell aforesaid, across the Watercourse there, dividing the parish of Upton Lovell aforesaid from the Tithing of of Corton aforesaid over certain land belonging to John Tivitoe Thring, Gentleman, situate in a certain Common Meadow lying within the Tithing of Corton and parish of Boyton aforesaid unto a certain Bridge there; which said Public Footway is diverted from its usual course from the South West corner of the said Bridge, opposite the Factory of the said John Gale Everett, adjoining unto Mill Nead, belonging to the said John Gale Everett, at Upton Lovell aforesaid, to and in nearly a direct line from the same Bridge, of the width of five feet and of the length of two hundred and eighteen yards, through and over the said Meadow called Mill Mead, belonging to the said John Gale Everett, in the parish of Upton Lovell aforesaid, until it crosses the said Watercourse uniting with the Back River dividing the parish of Upton Lovell aforesaid from the Tithing of Corton aforesaid over certain lands belonging to Sarah Withers, widow, Ambrose Patient and Richard Withers, Gentleman, all of Corton within the parish of Boyton aforesaid and the said John Tivitoe Thring, respectively situate in the said Common Meadow lying within the Tything of Corton and parish of Boyton aforesaid to the said Bridge there, whence it continues in an ancient course; both which said several Footways are more particularly delineated or described in the Map or Plan annexed to the said Order, it appearing to the said Justices on a view thereof, as well as on admeasurement of the same, that the said Footway will, by being so diverted, be made nearer and more commodious to the public; and that the said Order will be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace of the said County, at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Warminster, in and for the said county of Wilts, on the eleventh day of July next; and also, that the said Order will, at the said Quarter Sessions, be confirmed and inrolled, unless upon an appeal against the same to be then made it be otherwise determined. – Dated the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.