The Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire, 1927
illustrates the following commercial traders and inhabitants
within
the
village. The description provided: Lyneham is a village and
parish, on the road from Wootton
Bassett to Calne,
3¾ miles
south-vest from Wootton Bassett station and 2 miles southeast
of Dauntsey Junction station on the Swindon and Bath section
of the Great Western railway, and 6 north from Calne, in
the Chippenham, division of the county, Cricklade and Wootton
Bassett rural district, Cricklade petty sessional division,
Kingsbridge hundred, Calne county court district, rural deanery
of Avebury (Avebury portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese
of Salisbury The Wilts and Berks canal passes within half
a mile north of the parish. Water is supplied by the Cricklade
and Wootton Bassett Rural District Council.
The church of St. Michael is
an ancient stone edifice, in the Perpendicular style, consisting
of nave, south aisle, north porch and a low embattled western
tower containing 5 bells, which were rehung and one recast
in 1926: there is a monument to the Walker Heneage family:
the church was restored in 1863, and has 250 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1653 - The living is a vicarage,
united to that of Bradenstoke joint net yearly value £410,
with residence, in the gift of the exors. of Lt Col. Godfrey
C. Walker-Heneage D.S.O.,
M.V.0 ., D.L., J.P. and
since 1915 by the Rev Edward Richard Zouche Walker B.A. of
St. Catharine's college, Cambridge.
Charities amounting to about £62 yearly,
arising from land at Lyneham, Bushton and Coates are distributed
to the poor in money and coal on the 21st December. There
is a memorial to the men of Lyneham who fell in the Great
War, 1914-1918. Major Godfrey C. Walker-Heneage is lord of
the manor and F. C. Carr Esq., the principal landowner. The
soil is corn-brash; sub-soil sand. The chief crops are grass,
wheat and roots. The area is 3,431 acrea of land, of which
about one-fourth is arable and the other pasture, and 9 of
water; rateable value £6,183; the population in 1921 was
836, including part of Bradenstoke-cum-Clack. The population
of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921 was 521.
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