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Burcombe

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The name is thought to derive from the Saxon name of Brydancumb or Bryda's Valley. At one time in antiquity the village was called South Burcombe and had a twin, North Burcombe, which stood on the north side of what is now the A30 road. Nothing remains of North Burcombe but the church.
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part going to form "Burcombe Without" and the rest going to Wilton. In 1885 Wilton's boundaries were enlarged to include part of Burcombe, which was known for a short time as Burcombe Within; in 1934 a further small part of Burcombe was transferred to Wilton.
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of St John is built on higher ground near the A30 road, to the north of the village centre, it is assumed to protect it from the possibility of flooding from the river in the lower part of the valley. It was permitted by the Abbesses of
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parish. A church stood in the 13th century but there is no record of it after 1535. The 1934 enlargement of Wilton took some of the Ugford land, thus Wilton's western boundary is now just east of Ugford hamlet.
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The Ship Inn at Burcombe is a 17th-century village pub with whitewashed walls, low ceilings with oak beams and a large open fire. The village has a butcher's shop and a small suite of rented offices.
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at the top of a steep slope overlooking Punch Bowl Bottom, a deep valley in the downland with a semicircular head. Part of the northern boundary of Burcombe parish follows Grovely Ditch or
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city centre and lies each side of an unclassified road. Burcombe is an unspoiled village with many of the houses' gardens leading down to the
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Until 1884, North Ugford (comprising the present-day hamlet and an area of farmland, all north of the river) was part of
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and has features in the corner work of the masonry which indicate strongly that it was originally of
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Ugford House is dated 1636. Much of the housing in Burcombe village was built by the
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building. It was declared redundant in 2005 and its sale was proposed in 2007.
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The ancient parish of Burcombe extended further west towards Ditchampton and
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construction, although it has undergone many changes, including
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activity in the area includes, in the south of the parish, a
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estate, including Burcombe Manor, a farmhouse dated 1865.
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corrected the mistake in his 1755 map of the county.
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Index

Ugford

Burcombe is located in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
OS grid reference
SU070310
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Wiltshire
Ceremonial county
Wiltshire
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SP2
Dialling code
Police
Wiltshire
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
Salisbury
Parish Council
UK

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