Hippenscombe

Hippenscombe
Hippenscombe
	Hippenscombe Location within Wiltshire
OS grid reference	SU310561
Civil parish	Tidcombe and Fosbury;
Unitary authority	Wiltshire;
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Marlborough
Postcode district	SN8
Dialling code	01264
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	East Wiltshire;
	List of places UK England Wiltshire 51°18′11″N 1°33′22″W / 51.303°N 1.556°W

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 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]

In 1858 Hippenscombe became a separate civil parish.^[5] Hippenscombe was added to Tidcombe ecclesiastical parish in 1879^[6] and to Tidcombe and Fosbury civil parish in 1894.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ Younger, Colin (1996). "The Swing Riots around Burbage". Burbage, Wiltshire, England. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016.
^ "Hippenscombe CP/ExP/ExP through time | Population Statistics". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^ Hippenscombe at visionofbritain.org.uk
^ "Relationships and changes Hippenscombe ExP/ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
^ "No. 24728". The London Gazette. 27 May 1879. pp. 3603–4.

External links

Media related to Hippenscombe at Wikimedia Commons

Hippenscombe at old-maps.co.uk

[:0-1] 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] "Relationships and changes Hippenscombe ExP/ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 May 2024.

[6] "No. 24728". The London Gazette. 27 May 1879. pp. 3603–4.

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