Hippenscombe

Hippenscombe is a hamlet within the civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. Marked only on large-scale maps, it lies to the southwest of Oakhill Wood and the northwest of Conholt Park, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Hungerford, Berkshire.

Hippenscombe

Hippenscombe Bottom
Hippenscombe
Location within Wiltshire
OS grid referenceSU310561
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMarlborough
Postcode districtSN8
Dialling code01264
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

Hippenscombe has a long separate history of its own, having been an extra-parochial area.[1] Much of the land was assigned in 1553 to Edward Seymour (1539–1621), later Earl of Hertford and the builder of Tottenham House in Savernake Forest, and was owned by his descendants until sold by Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury in 1827.[1]

The area was severely affected by the Swing Riots of 1830.[2] The population taken at 19th-century censuses was never more than 59, and by 1891 had declined to 35.[3]

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) said of Hippenscombe:

HIPPENSCOMBE, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Hants and Berks, 4¼ miles NE of Ludgershall. Acres, 980. Real property, £545. Pop., 42. Houses, 11.[4]

Hippenscombe was added to Tidcombe ecclesiastical parish in 1879[5] and to Tidcombe and Fosbury civil parish in 1894.[1]

References
  1. Baggs, A P; Freeman, J; Smith, C; Stevenson, J H; Williamson, E (1999). Crowley, D.A. (ed.). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 16 pp226-229 – Hippenscombe". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  2. Younger, Colin (1996). "The Swing Riots around Burbage". Burbage, Wiltshire, England. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016.
  3. "Hippenscombe CP/ExP/ExP through time | Population Statistics". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. Hippenscombe at visionofbritain.org.uk
  5. "No. 24728". The London Gazette. 27 May 1879. pp. 3603–4.
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