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Brinkworth is a village and civil parish in northern Wiltshire, England. The village lies between Royal Wootton Bassett and Malmesbury, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the M4 motorway and 9 miles (14 km) west of Swindon. The west end of Brinkworth village is Causeway End.
The village of Brinkworth lies between Royal Wootton Bassett and Malmesbury in North Wiltshire, surrounded by beautiful countryside and views over the Dauntsey Vale to the North Wessex Downs....
The official size of the parish has led to the claim that Brinkworth is the longest village in England but despite its ribbon development, there is a distinct village hub consisting of the church, pub, local school and village hall, which unites the village.
Jan 25, 2022 · Brinkworth is a village and civil parish in northern Wiltshire, England. The village lies between Royal Wootton Bassett and Malmesbury, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the M4 motorway and 9 miles (14 km) west of Swindon. The west end of Brinkworth village is Causeway End.
- 2,527 hectares
- 42.1
- 53 people/km 2
- 1,331 (2021)
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Brinkworth Manor was given to Malmesbury Abbey by the nobleman Leofsige, sometime before the Domesday Book survey. The abbey held the land until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time it was granted to William Stumpe.It then passed into the family of the Earl of Berkshire and Suffolk, until it was sold privately between 1858 and 1960. It...
Parish church
The Church of England parish church|parish church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade-I listed building. A church was recorded in 1151 and was linked with Malmesbury Abbey until 1539. The present church dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, and was restored by C. E. Ponting in 1902-3.St Michael's is one of six churches in the Woodbridge Group. Notable rectors include Tobias Crisp, incumbent from 1627 to 1642.
Other churches
A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1828 in the Barnes Green area of Brinkworth, next to the main road through the village; Richard Jukes was the first minister. This was replaced by a larger building in 1860. The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre has records up to 1995;by 2009 the building was a private house. Vine House at Grittenham was used as a Moravian meeting house in the later 18th century and early 19th.Also at Grittenham, a small Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1894...
The Wilts and Berks Canal, opened in this area in 1801, completed in 1810 and abandoned in 1914, passed through the far south of the parish on its route to Swindon. Tockenham Reservoir, on both sides of the boundary with Lyneham parish, supplied the canal with water.A flight of seven locks lifted the canal over rising ground; restoration of four of...
Landscape artist Thomas Hearne moved to Brinkworth aged five. His biographer, Simon Fenwick, suggests that nearby Malmesbury Abbey proved an inspiration to Hearne's later interest in Gothic architecture.The writer and philosopher Roger Scruton lives at Sunday Hill Farm.
Brinkworth has a primary school, named Brinkworth Earl Danby's CE VC Primary School after it amalgamated in 1992 with the school at Dauntsey, two miles to the south-west. The building opened as a National School in 1868 which became Brinkworth County School in the 20th century;the original building is still in use, with classrooms in an adjacent bu...
The village has a village hall and a public house, the Three Crowns. There is also a small non-profit shop run by the Three Crownsthat supplies essentials such as bread, milk and eggs.
The Court Records of Brinkworth and Charlton, 1544–1648, ed. Douglas Crowley (Wiltshire Record Society Vol. 61, 2009)
Brinkworth is a village and civil parish in northern Wiltshire, England. The village lies between Royal Wootton Bassett and Malmesbury , about 1 mile north of the M4 motorway and 9 miles west of Swindon .
"BRINKWORTH, a parish in the hundred of Malmesbury, in the county of Wilts, 6 miles to the S.E. of Malmesbury, and 5 N.W. from Wootton Basset railway station. It is situated on a branch of the river Avon, and contains the hamlet of Grittenham.
