Stock, Wiltshire

Stock is a small settlement and former ecclesiastical parish, now part of Calne Without civil parish, in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the town of Calne.[1]

Farmland including part of Stockstreet Farm

Samuel Lewis said in A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848):

STOCK, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Calne, Chippenham and Calne, and N. divisions of Wilts; containing 328 inhabitants. It is situated on a tributary of the river Avon, and to the south of the road leading from Droitwich to Alcester.[2]

Stock was part of the Calne hundred, and its history is included in the parish history of Calne in the Wiltshire Victoria County History's Volume XVII (2002). Although Stock had open fields and common pastures, it did not have a nuclear settlement. Before the Norman Conquest of England and still in 1086 the land at Stock was almost certainly part of the royal estate of Calne. Land at Stock had been granted away from Calne by 1144, although the area it then covered is unknown. Some of it was probably granted to Fulk de Cauntelo about 1199, and from 1763 on Stock was inherited with the manors of Calne and Calstone as part of the Bowood House estate. In 1728 Stock was divided between Hollow Ditch farm (now called Holly Ditch) and a farm now gone, with buildings near Quobbs Farm, on the west side of the road from Devizes to Calne (now the A3102). As part of the Bowood estate, the land of those two farms, and other land at Stock, totalling about 350 acres, was inherited by Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne, in 1999.[3]

Today the roadside hamlet in the west of Stock is called Mile Elm, named for a farm which lies between Quobbs and Holly Ditch.[1]

Notes
  1. Crowley, D.A., ed. (2002). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 17 pp51–64 – Calne outside the town". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  2. Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)
  3. D. A. Crowley, ed., 'Calne: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 17, Calne (London, 2002), pp. 64-79 at British History Online, accessed 20 April 2018.
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