Hodson, Wiltshire

Coordinates: 51°31′19″N 1°45′04″W / 51.522°N 1.751°W / 51.522; -1.751

Ordnance Survey Map from 1959 showing Wroughton (C3), Burderop Park (E3) and Hodson. Grid squares are 1km.

Hodson is an unspoilt hamlet in a small valley, in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, England. The hamlet lies about half a mile northwest of the edge of Chiseldon village; the M4 motorway runs a similar distance to the north, and the centre of the large town of Swindon is some 3 miles (5 km) to the northwest.

By the 13th century, Hodson was part of Chiseldon manor.[1]

North of the hamlet is Burderop Wood, c.120 acres (49 ha), designated a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971 due to the wet Ash-maple and acid Pedunculate oak-Hazel-Ash woodland.[2]

Part of the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway ran close to the north part of the village (grid squares E2-F2). The line was no longer used after March 1964 and part of its route through Burderop Wood was used for the M4 motorway west of junction 15 in the 1970s.

Hodson has a public house, the Calley Arms.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dunning, R.W.; Rogers, K.H.; Spalding, P.A.; Shrimpton, Colin; Stevenson, Janet H.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1970). Crittall, Elizabeth, ed. "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 9 pp6-23 - Parishes: Chiseldon". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Thamesdown Borough Council 1971 designation as BSSSI" (PDF). Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Views in and around Hodson". Retrieved 20 February 2009.


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