Redlynch, Wiltshire
| Redlynch | |
| Wiltshire | |
|---|---|
 Red House, Morgan's Vale Road | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU203210 |
| Location: | 50°59’17"N, 1°42’43"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 3,448 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Salisbury |
| Postcode: | SP5 |
| Dialling code: | 01725 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wiltshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Salisbury |
| Website: | Parish Council |
Redlynch is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire about six and a half miles south-east of Salisbury. The parish includes the villages of Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls immediately west and south-west of Redlynch; the village of Lover, a mile south-east of Redlynch; and the hamlet of Bohemia, south of Lover. Much of the parish lies within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park.[2]
The River Blackwater rises near Lover and flows east through the parish towards Landford and Hampshire, where it joins the Test.
History
The earliest settlement was at Pensworth, north of Grove Copse and north-west of the present Redlynch, in the 12th or 13th centuries.[3] This village had declined by the 15th century and in the 20th century the name survived only as Upper Pensworth Farm.[4]
In the 18th century settlement was along roads and the edges of commons. Settlement increased in the 19th century, at Redlynch and at Warminster Green (called Lover since 1876) where the church and school were built.[3]
Religious sites
Redlynch church of Saint Mary at Lover is a yellow brick building[5] dating from 1837. Part of the ancient parish of Downton, a separate ecclesiastical district was created for the church in 1841.[3] The vicarage was the childhood home of Bernard Walke who served as an Anglican priest in three Cornish parishes.[6]
The church of Saint Birinus at Morgan's Vale was built as a chapel of ease to Downton in 1894–96. It is a red brick Gothic Revival building with stone dressings and Perpendicular Gothic style windows.[5] It was designed by the Gothic Revival architect C. E. Ponting of Marlborough in the style of his architectural contemporary W. D. Caroe.[5] The benefices of the two churches were combined in 1968;[7] as of 2016 the incumbent resides at Downton.[8]
Woodfalls Methodist Church was built in 1874 by the Primitive Methodists and joined the Salisbury Methodist Circuit in the 1940s.[9]
Notable buildings
Newhouse, east of Redlynch on the road towards Whiteparish, was built c. 1619.[3] The house and estate were bought in 1633 by Giles Eyre (father of Sir Giles Eyre, member of Parliament and judge) and continue to be held by his descendants.[10] The house is constructed from English bonded brick with limestone dressings and has a distinctive Y-shaped plan; it was designated as Grade-I listed in 1960.[11] There is an early 18th-century granary[12] and two stable blocks, from 1750 and the late 19th.[13]
Amenities
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls CE Primary School serves Morgan's Vale, Woodfalls, Lover and Redlynch; it was built as a National School in 1869, next to St Birinus' church.[14]
Redlynch Village Hall is near the church at Lover. Built in 1922 as the church hall, it was modernised in the early 21st century.[15] The parish has two pubs: the Kings Head at Redlynch and the Wodfalls Inn at Woodfalls.
References
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics. https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127868&c=SP5+2LD&d=16&e=62&g=6476157&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&enc=1. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ↑ "National Park boundary map". New Forest National Park Authority. http://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/504/national_park_boundary_map. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 11 pp19-77 – Parishes: Downton". University of London. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp19-77. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ "Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, sheet SU22". 1958. http://maps.nls.uk/view/95749866. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 381
- ↑ Walke, B. (2002) Twenty Years at St Hilary. Mount Hawke: Truran; pp. 11–12, 190
- ↑ "Church of St. Mary, Redlynch". Wiltshire Council. http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=693. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ↑ "St Mary's Church, Redlynch". Archbishops' Council. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/redlynch-st-mary/. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ↑ "Woodfalls Methodist Church, Redlynch". Wiltshire Council. http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=700. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ↑ "Newhouse Estate". http://www.newhouseestate.co.uk/. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1300128: Newhouse
- ↑ National Heritage List 1184496: Granary to north of Newhouse
- ↑ National Heritage List 1024006: Stables at Newhouse
- ↑ "Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls C. of E. VA Primary School". Wiltshire Council. http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getschool.php?id=857. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
- ↑ "Redlynch Village hall". http://redlynch.org.uk/redlynch-village-hall.html. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
Sources
- Crowley, D.A. (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Crittall, Elizabeth; Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H. (1980). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11: South-west Wiltshire: Downton hundred, Elstub and Everleigh hundred. pp. 19–77.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 381.
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