Hippenscombe

Hippenscombe

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Hippenscombe
Hippenscombe shown within Wiltshire
OS grid reference SU310561
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Marlborough
Postcode district SN8
Dialling code 01264
Police Wiltshire
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Hippenscombe is a small settlement within the civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. Marked only on large-scale maps, its location is 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] It was severely affected by the Swing Riots of 1830.[2]

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.[3]

It was incorporated into Tidcombe in 1879.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 'Hippenscombe', in A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 16: Kinwardstone Hundred (1999), pp. 226-229, accessed 2 March 2012
  2. ↑ The Swing Riots around Burbage at burbage-wiltshire.co.uk, accessed 2 March 2012
  3. ↑ Hippenscombe at visionofbritain.org.uk
  4. ↑ Hippenscombe at genuki.org.uk
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