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Lower Chicksgrove is a hamlet in the civil parish of Tisbury in the south of the county of Wiltshire, England. The settlement is recorded in the 12th century as Chicksgrove and a nearby settlement as Stoford; Chicksgrove was first recorded as Lower Chicksgrove and Stoford as Upper Chicksgrove in the later 19th century.
Most of the settlement at Lower Chicksgrove in the later 18th century was situated along a north-south lane west of the crossing of the Tisbury-Fovant and Chilmark-Ebbesborne Wake roads where the farmsteads belonging to Tisbury manor stood. Chicksgrove Manor, which is the largest of these to survive, is said to have been occupied by the Davies family from the 16th to 18th centuries, and was the birthplace of the lawyer, poet, and political writer Sir John Davies (d. 1626).[1] Chicksgrove Quarry, a quarry extracting Chilmark stone, still operates at Lower Chicksgrove.
The 2009 film Morris: A Life with Bells On was partly filmed at the Compasses Inn at Lower Chicksgrove.
References
- ^ 'Parishes: Tisbury', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 13: South-west Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth hundreds (1987), pp. 195-248, accessed 6 July 2010
External links
- Victoria County History information on Tisbury parish, including Lower Chicksgrove
- Images of England page about Chicksgrove Manor
- Compasses Inn website
Coordinates: 51°04′10″N 2°02′38″W / 51.0694°N 2.0438°W
Categories:- Villages in Wiltshire
- Wiltshire geography stubs
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