Hazelbury is a former village in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. It was about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) southeast of the present-day village of Box and 3 miles (5 km) south-west of the town of Corsham.
Hazelbury | |
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Extinct settlement | |
 Hazelbury Manor: part of gardens, with house behind | |
  Hazelbury Hazelbury within Wiltshire | |
| Coordinates: 51°24′50″N 2°14′16″W / 51.41389°N 2.23778°W | |
| Country | England |
| County | Wiltshire |
| Parish | Box |
| Area code | 01225 |
There was a Roman villa.[1] Hazelbury was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Haseberie, with 25 households and a church.[2] The church fell into disuse before 1540.[3] In the 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, Hazelbury is described as "once was a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol".[4] The name is spelled Hasilbury in a 1900 book.[5]
Chapel Plaister, an ancient roadside church and hospice for pilgrims which still stands about half a mile to the south-east, was dependent on Hazelbury church.[6]
The extinction of the village probably followed the Black Death pandemic.[7] Today only Hazelbury Manor survives: a 15th-century Grade I listed building in grounds of 186 acres (75 hectares).[8]
References
edit- ^ Historic England. "Site of Roman villa, Hazelbury House (207977)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Hazelbury in the Domesday Book
- ^ "Hazelbury Church, Box". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ "Hazelbury, Wiltshire". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 3, 1900, pp.36–37 – via Internet Archive
- ^ Orbach, Julian; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (2021). Wiltshire. The Buildings Of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-300-25120-3. OCLC 1201298091.
- ^ "Box parish". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Historic England. "Hazelbury Manor (1363618)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
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