Dilton Marsh

Dilton Marsh
Village centre
Dilton Marsh is located in Wiltshire
Dilton Marsh
Dilton Marsh
Location within Wiltshire
Population1,934 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST850498
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWESTBURY
Postcode districtBA13
Dialling code01373
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
WebsiteParish Council
List of places
UK
England
Wiltshire
51°14′56″N 2°12′50″W / 51.249°N 2.214°W / 51.249; -2.214

Dilton Marsh is a village and civil parish in the far west of the county of Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. The village is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the centre of the town of Westbury; Dilton Marsh remains a distinct settlement with its own character and community, bounded and separated from Westbury Leigh by the Biss Brook.

The parish includes the small settlements of Penknap (east of Dilton Marsh village); Penleigh (northeast); Stormore (now contiguous with the west of the village); Clearwood (a little further west); and the rural hamlets of Fairwood (north) and Hisomley (southwest).

Geography

The parish lies on greensand in the southeast, and clay in the north and west. It is low-lying, nowhere reaching a height above 250 feet (76 m).[2]

To the west is the Somerset town of Frome, the garrison town of Warminster is to the southeast, and Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge is to the north. The Somerset border is some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the west of Dilton Marsh village.

The hamlet of Stormore in the west is now part of the village. The houses along this loop road – called Stormore Common or St. Maur Common or Green in the 19th century – were once home to weavers.[2] This area is enriched by areas of woodland, a valuable wildlife habitat,[citation needed] some of which belongs to the Chalcot House estate. The clay soil in this area provides fertile farmland and good quality grazing and is served by a system of traditional drainage ditches.[citation needed] The open aspect of this environment serves to separate Dilton Marsh and the county of Wiltshire from its neighbouring county of Somerset.[3]

History

The original settlement, Old Dilton, is some 3⁄4 mi (1.2 km) southeast of the present village centre at grid reference ST860490, on the banks of the Biss Brook. It now consists of a couple of farm houses and the ancient St Mary's Church. As fewer workers were needed in the local woollen industry after the introduction of greater mechanisation, many moved to the common land of the drained marsh (called Dilton's marsh)[4] on the northern side of the ridge.[5] By the early 19th century, Dilton Marsh had outgrown the older settlement.[2]

Formerly there was a brick and tile works in the east of the parish, and this has influenced the overall appearance of homes in the village. Many of the houses are brick, but others are of stone rubble with red brick dressings, and in some instances the front walls only are brick.[2]

Dilton Marsh was a tithing of the ancient parish of Westbury, and the church at Dilton (now Old Dilton) was a chapelry of the parish church at Westbury. Dilton Marsh civil parish was created in 1894, bounded on the east by the Biss Brook and on the west by the county boundary; the southern extent of the new parish was reduced in 1934 when Chapmanslade civil parish was created.[2]

Dilton Marsh had two schools in the 19th century. A British School was built in 1866, enlarged in 1884 and 1895, and became a County school 1906. A National School was built next to the new church c. 1848, and became a County school in 1904, when it was known as the Church of England school. The schools took children of all ages until the 1930s, when those over 11 transferred to the secondary school at Westbury. In 1938, the sites were reorganised into an Infants' school at the former British School, and a Junior school at the church school.[6][7]

Notable buildings

Chalcot House, a Grade II* listed country house, stands in Chalcot Park in the south of the parish. The house was built in the early 18th century on the site of an older one, extensively altered in 1872 by James Piers St Aubyn, and restored in the 1970s.[8]

Bremeridge Farmhouse, in farmland about 0.6 miles (1.0 km) north of the High Street, was thought to date from the 18th century[9] until investigation in 2021 found within the substantial stone house a smaller timber-framed house from the second half of the 16th century.[10]

Religious sites

St Mary's Church, Old Dilton is from the 14th century, with later work in the 15th and 17th; its interior is little changed since the 18th. It was always a chapelry of All Saints', Westbury. Regular services ceased in 1900 after the building of Holy Trinity at Dilton Marsh, and the church was declared redundant in 1973. A Grade I listed building, it is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Holy Trinity Church, Dilton Marsh

Holy Trinity Church was built in the centre of the village in 1844, to designs of T.H. Wyatt in Romanesque style, partly at the cost of the Church Building Commissioners,[11] and partly at that of Thomas Phipps of Chalcot. A parish called Dilton's Marsh[12] was created for the new church in 1845.[13] The building is Grade II* listed.[14][15] The small church of All Saints (a tin tabernacle) at Brokerswood, to the north of Dilton Marsh, was transferred from North Bradley parish in 1973.[16] Today both churches are part of the White Horse Team Ministry, centred on Westbury.[17]

The church of St Philip and St James at Chapmanslade, southwest of Dilton Marsh, was built as a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity in 1867, and transferred to Corsley ecclesiastical parish in 1925.[18][19]

Providence Baptist Church at Penknap was built in 1810, after a dispute at the nearby Westbury Leigh Baptist Church; soon a Sunday school was started.[20][21] The building was enlarged in 1835 and continues in use.[22] Stormore Baptist Chapel was built in 1844 as an offshoot of the Westbury Leigh church, replacing a smaller building of 1839 which was provided owing to the distance from Penknap and Westbury. This too continues in use.[23]

Features

The village High Street is 2 km (2187 yd) long. The village has a public house (the Prince of Wales), a post office, grocery shop, fish and chip shop, and a combined farm shop, garden centre and cafe (Fairfield Farm College). The village school continues as Dilton Marsh Church of England Primary School, in new accommodation built in 1988 behind the former church school.[24]

Governance

An elected parish council is the first tier of local government. Most local government functions are carried out by Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority. The parish is part of the Ethandune electoral division,[25] which elects one member of Wiltshire Council.[26]

Transport

At the eastern end of the village is Dilton Marsh railway station, a simple pair of platforms on the Westbury–Warminster line. This is a request stop and is the subject of the John Betjeman poem Dilton Marsh Halt.

Until 1947, passengers were directed to the seventh house up the hill, Holmdale, where tickets could be bought from Mrs H. Roberts acting as a ticket agent for British Rail.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Wiltshire Community History - Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Westbury: Introduction". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 8. Victoria County History. University of London. 1965. pp. 139–148. Retrieved 9 July 2022 – via British History Online.
  3. ^ "South West England (United Kingdom): Counties and Unitary Districts & Settlements - Population Statistics, Charts and Map".
  4. ^ "No. 20469". The London Gazette. 9 May 1845. p. 1393.
  5. ^ "Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 8 pp168-172 - Westbury: Industry and trade". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  6. ^ "County School, Dilton Marsh". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Church of England School, Dilton Marsh". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Chalcot House (1021468)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  9. ^ Historic England. "Bremeridge Farmhouse (1364287)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  10. ^ Treasure, Dorothy (26 October 2021). "On a Brambly Ridge near Dilton Marsh". Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  11. ^ M. H. Port, 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (Reading: Spire Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4, p. 123
  12. ^ "Brokerswood: All Saints". A Church Near You. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  13. ^ "No. 20469". The London Gazette. 9 May 1845. pp. 1393–1394.
  14. ^ "Holy Trinity Church, Dilton Marsh". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  15. ^ Historic England. "Church of Holy Trinity (1021473)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  16. ^ "No. 45958". The London Gazette. 17 April 1973. p. 4945.
  17. ^ "White Horse Team Ministry". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  18. ^ "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 8 pp 176-181 – Westbury: Churches". British History Online. University of London. 1965. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  19. ^ "No. 33115". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 December 1925. p. 8385.
  20. ^ "Providence Baptist Chapel, Dilton Marsh". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  21. ^ "Researching the Villages of Dilton and Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire". www.dilton-marsh.org.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  22. ^ "Providence Baptist Church & Ebenezer Baptist Church". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  23. ^ "Stormore Baptist Church". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  24. ^ "Dilton Marsh School". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  25. ^ "Election Maps: Great Britain". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  26. ^ "Your Councillors". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  27. ^ "Tickets "Up the Hill"". Railway Magazine. 115 (821): 517. September 1969.
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