Milton Lilbourne

Milton Lilbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire and lies in Pewsey Vale between Pewsey and Burbage.

St Peter's Church
July 2003

Milton Lilbourne's population was listed on the Kennet District Council website as 512 in 2006. These days the village is largely a mixed residential area centred around the Manor in the centre of the Village. The nearest shops are in Pewsey about 2 miles away. The parish is unusual in that it a long thin shape and is one of the few parishes to have boundaries on the uplands to both south and north of the Vale. The southern boundary passes by a long barrow and the northern boundary buts up to the prehistoric fort on Martinsell Hill.

Its facilities include St Peters Church, with elements dating back to the 12th century, the Village Hall with playing fields and then on the Pewsey-Burbage road (B3087) in the area known as Little Salisbury was the "Three Horse Shoes" pub, closed in early 2009. North of the village and that road is the hamlet of Littleworth beyond which the hamlets of New Mill and Milkhouse Water are within the parish boundaries.

The village has had a youth football team called 'Milton Lilbourne FC' who played in the under 15's age group but they passed out of the age group set up in 2008

See also

• Fyfield (Pewsey)

Location

Position: grid reference SU190606

Nearby towns and cities: Marlborough, Hungerford, Devizes, Swindon

Nearby villages: Burbage, Easton Royal, Wootton Rivers, Pewsey

External links

• A History of the Parish
• Youth Football Web Page
• Wiltshire Village Halls Association
• Pictures of the Church & Churchyard
• Pewsey Website
• Kennet DC website
• Map sources for Milton Lilbourne