Category: Norton Bavant: Gleanings

Entry No.1338 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

16 April 1832 (17 April 1832). Norton Bavant. A building or dwellinghouse. Independent. James Everley, William Hiskett, William Bridle, resident in Norton Bavant. [Endorsed] ‘PS As no post comes to Norton Bavant direct – We request the favor of your Lordship to direct the licence when forwarded to Mr W.M. Scammell, Close, Warminster, who will convey it to us.’ (WRO D1/9/2/1)

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

Enclosure Awards. Norton Bavant (see also Bishopstrow). 1809. Reference: A1/210/163/EA 80

Norton Bavant Inclosure Award

[2,221 a.]

Act: 45 G.III c.74 (not printed).

Award: 24 April 1809 (enrolled 23 April 1810), W.R.O. 80.

Commissioners:
George Barnes of Andover, Hants;
John Charlton of Stourton;
John Gatehouse of Buckhorn Weston, Dorset.

Lord of Manor of Norton Bavant, John Benett;
Lord of Manor of Little Sutton, marquess of Bath;
Lord of Manor of Heytesbury, Sir William Pierce Ashe a’Court;
Lord of Manor of Bishopstrow, Mrs Sarah Temple;
Lord of Manor of Edington, Joshua Smith.

Vicar: George Smith.

Area [1,348 a.]
Banham Mead, Scratchbury Down, Cotley Down, Eight Acres, Heathfield.

Allotments 3.
John Benett 1,275 a. (including 39 a. for rectorial glebe);
vicar of Norton Bavant 39 a.;
John Knight 33 a.

Roads:
3 public roads, 3 private roads, 1 private bridle way, 1 public footpath.

Map:
Allottees and acreages.
Parish shown without Middleton but including the village.

See also: Bishopstrow Inclosure Award.

Note:
Boundaries between Norton Bavant and Sutton Veny as fixed by the Sutton Veny Commissioners taken as being correct.

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

Norton Bavant Enclosure. Enclosure Commissioners’ Minutes, 1805-1808. Reference: WRO256

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

Detailed map of the parish of Norton Bavant, 1775. Reference: 3034.

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

An exact plan of Norton farm, Norton Bavant and estates of William Benet and other tithable lands as well as the downs and meads examined before Mr. George Knight, Jeffrey Moody and other ancient men of the parish surveyed by John Overton, William and John Knight assistants. 

Whole parish of Norton Bavant mapped but Middleton, which was tithe free is not surveyed in detail. This map provides a very detailed record of an open field system with tenants and occupiers of lands stated. Field number but no schedule available.

It is undated but notes of lands used as Cow Down in 1770, 1771 and 1773 suggests probable date.

Features delineated include Scratchbury hill (with its ramparts, ditches and entrances), barrows including Pit Mead barrows (two on south side of river Wylye opposite the village), quarries including a gulley cut to ease movement of stones, ‘carriages for water’ representing a water meadow system, wells on the hill, the old ditch making the northern extent of Norton Bavant Cow Down and the new road to the north of it, an obelisk probably a parish boundary marker with Bishopstrow on the site of Tyning Cottage on O.S. 6″.

The border of the map is divided into furlong squares.

Date: probably 1775.

Reference: 3034/1(H)