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503: 457: 47: 468:; the rest is a rebuilding of 1836 to designs of William James, a Gloucestershire architect. In rubble stone with ashlar buttresses and stone slate roofs, the church has a nave, chancel and south porch; inside there is ribbed Gothic vaulting to the nave and chancel. The 1836 work was instigated by the vicar, William S. Birch, who also oversaw the building of a village school and (around 1830) a new vicarage. Most of the windows of the church were reworked later in the 19th century. 31: 1443: 54: 445:(1868) describes the village as small, and mentions an almshouse for six elderly women. The population of the parish peaked at over 600 around the middle of the 19th century but had declined to 326 by the 1901 census. The 20th century saw little change until numbers began to rise gradually in the 1980s, reaching 382 at the 2011 census. 232: 562:
In the east of the parish, on the Malmesbury road, is the site of Easton Grey Camp or 89 Working Camp, which held Italian prisoners-of-war during the Second World War, and German prisoners from 1945 to 1948. The site had a standard design, with rows of narrow wooden huts (some of them still standing)
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known as Easton Grey House stands west of the church, overlooking the river and the village. Built after 1792 for Walter Hodges, the two-storey house has a five-bay south-east front, its central bay brought slightly forward under a broad pediment bearing the Parry-Hodges arms. The north-east front
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Gardens were made to the west of the house in the late 18th century, with an ornamental gateway, a loggia and a walled kitchen garden. These features were rearranged c.1880 when formal garden areas were added. The north lodge, single-storey with tall chimneys, is described as "very Victorian" by
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On an elevated site in the village, Ruckley House is a two-storey 17th-century farmhouse which was extended in the 18th and early 20th centuries, and in 1953. A range of outbuildings includes a large barn which is probably also 17th-century.
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and redbrick buildings including a water tower; prisoners were required to work, mostly in local agriculture. Today the site is in mixed light industrial use and is also home to a pre-school and after-school childcare business.
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The font – a shallow bowl on a cylindrical pillar – is 13th-century. The pulpit is 17th-century, and there are wall monuments from 1680 and later in the chancel. The Gothic organ is from the early 19th century, while the
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has a large semicircular porch on columns, built in the early 19th century, and attached to the north is a three-storey block of c.1880. Inside are fine chimney-pieces and a stone staircase with wrought iron railings.
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Note: ONS raw data (as opposed to this Wiltshire Council figure) is for an area 'too small to publish all data for reasons of confidentiality of living people', its parish data being combined with
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The benefice was united with Sherston in 1954, and consequently the vicarage at Easton Grey was sold. Today the parish is part of the Gauzebrook group of churches which is centred on
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By the 1880s the house was owned by Thomas Graham Smith, who in 1879 married Katherine Lucy Tennant (1860–1942, known as Lucy). She was a daughter of the wealthy industrialist
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The small parish church, which has no dedication, stands above the village near the Malmesbury-Sherston road. Its 15th-century roughcast west tower is described as humble by
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in 1894, and the house was a favourite resort of her husband during his 1908–1916 premiership. One source states that the house is currently owned by
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in the nave are from 1836. The three bells in the tower are said to be unringable; one is dated c.1399 and the others 1684.
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roadside settlement, possibly with earlier origins; it includes a square earthwork enclosure within Whitewalls Wood.
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with nine households and a mill. The later addition of the 'Grey' suffix may arise from a grant of the manor to
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forms the eastern boundary of the parish. Near where the Fosse Way crosses the river is the site of a large
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into output area E00162985 so more demographic statistics will become available in a few decades from 2011
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in 1959. Just outside the porch, a 1731 limestone chest tomb of the Adye family is in
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style with elaborate carving, and is Grade II* listed for its exceptional quality.
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crosses the parish from west to east. The parish is within the
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Looking across the bridge over the Avon towards the village
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The village has a 16th-century bridge over the Avon.
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Easton Grey is located in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
OS grid reference
ST878877
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Wiltshire
Ceremonial county
Wiltshire
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SN16
Dialling code
Police
Wiltshire
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
South Cotswolds
Parish Council
UK
England

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