The 1859 Post Office Directory
The Post Office Directory of 1859 provided a small
descriptive paragraph of the village, its role and main
Lord
of the Manor details.
Lyneham
is a township, village, and parish in Cricklade and Wootton
Bassett union, Kingsbridge hundred, diocese of Salisbury,
archdeaconry of Wilts, and deanery of Avebury. North Wilts,
4¼ miles south-west from Wootton Bassett: The living is
a perpetual curacy annual value £58, in the gift of
G. H. W. Heneage, Esq., who is lord of the manor; the Rev.
John Duncan is the incumbent; the glebe comprises three acres.
- The church of St. Michael is an ancient edifice, in the
Perpendicular style, has a low tower, containing 5 bells,
a nave, and south aisle, and contains a monument to the Walker
Heneage family. The Primitive Methodists and Baptists have
places of worship here. There is a school endowed with 25
acres of land, producing about £39 per annum. The parish
comprises 3,242 acres, of which about one-half is arable
and the other pasture. The population, in 1831 was 1,046.
The Great Western railway and the Wilts and Berks canal pass
within half a mile of the parish. Fairs for cattle are held
at Clack at Michaelmas and Lady-Day.
CLACK is a village 1½ mile west of Lyneham. Near
to Clack is a farm-house, called Bradenstoke Abbey, occupying
the site of a priory for Augustine monks founded about 1142
and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin; some parts of the present
building are very ancient. Pepper Alley is 1 mile south-west;
Church End, half a mile south-cast; Preston 1 mile south-east;
Dauntsey Park, 1 mile north-west
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