Lyneham village is remarkably different nowadays with
the majority of the parish afforded to the military estate
and
their housing accommodation. We have a history in the making
and many people have asked what the village looked like
prior
to the late 1930's when the Air Ministry decided to purchase
the arable and pasture land around Lyneham Court and Cranley
Farm for use as a new airfield. With the expansion schemes
for the Royal Air Force the area was surveyed in 1936 for
possible airfield use in 1937. The intention was to use the
base as an aircraft storage unit.
Initial surveys revealed that the water table would be to
near the surface and the Air Ministry looked at other contributory
factors, geographical location, height above sea level and
climatic conditions and decided the water table issues would
not be a deterrent to build on the land. Two years later the
builders moved in. Hedges were dug up, the area was ploughed
level with horse drawn ploughs and the old moated manor house
of Lyneham Court, built before 1539 and original home of the
Lords of the Manor, was demolished. The landscape and scenery
was to change, and in between additional housing estates being
built over the years, Lyneham's use and history changed.
Spare the opportunity to browse some of the very interesting
Tithe and first Ordinance Survey maps drawn of the parish.
Owing to the images being digitally stored on Lyneham Village
Online, please be patient while they download. We have had
to keep them fairly large in size to ensure clarity is not
lost in these excellent drawings. If you wish to get reproductions
of the images, they can be obtained through the Wiltshire
and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham.
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate more..
The image displayed is the Heneage
Estate family crest that has been
placed on the bottom right hand corner of the largest
25in
to 1 mile scaled map of the Lyneham Estate dated 1821.
Original located in the Wiltshire
and Swindon History Centre Chippenham. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more...
(Main Village Map)
This map illustrates the majority of the Heneage Estate
map of 1821 from Cranley Farm top left spreading down
through Barrow End Farm, Lyneham Green, Pound Farm,
Lyneham Church Farm and down past the village church
to Church End. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Main Top Left)
This map illustrates the top left part of the Heneage
Estate map of 1821 from Cranley Farm
down
through Barrow End Farm to Lyneham Green along Chippenham
Road. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more...
(Main Top Right)
This map illustrates the top right part of the Heneage
Estate map of 1821 from Barrow
End Farm to Lyneham Green and along the Swindon Road
with Farthing Lane leading down to Dauntsey. It
also shows the stream of Lilybrook bisecting the map
diagonally.
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Main Bottom Left)
This map illustrates main village road with runs south
from The Green via Pound Farm, Lyneham Church Farm
to the Calne Gate at Preston Lane junction. It also
shows the road from the Calne Gate to Twizzle Corner
with the toll bar. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Main Bottom Right)
This map illustrates main fields to the east of the
village main road from Pound Farm to the Calne Gate
at Preston
Lane
junction.
Cowleaze Copse (96) and Hooks Copse (100) are also
shown. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Church End Calne Road)
This illustration shows the map road from the top Barrow
End Gate to the Toll Gate at Calne Road Preston Lane
junction. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Lyneham Pound Farm)
This image shows the north
of the village the main fields belonging
to Pound Farm (87) down to Calne Road Toll Bar. The
main fields Great Croft (73), Home Cowleaze (77) and
Further Cowleaze (91) were owned by Jacob Henley |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Barrow End Farm)
This larger map shows
the north west of the village at Barrow End Farm
at the toll gate to Batchfords Lane (K) down to Lyneham
Green Farm - Little Close (338) owned by John Hopkins |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Lyneham Court )
The image shows Lyneham Court which
was demolished at the time the Air Ministry compulsary
purchased the land for the building of the air base
in 1939. The Lyneham Court buildings were considered
the important manor buildings owned by the Earl of
Radnor. The map also shows the road (G) which runs
from Barrow End to Clack Brook and Gatcomb Gate. The
majority of the land on this map was owned by Elizabeth
Pullen. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Cranley
Farm Fields)
The
image shows north of Lyneham Court which was demolished
at the time the Air Ministry compulsary
purchased the land for the building of the air base
in 1939. The Lyneham Court buildings were considered
the important manor buildings owned by the Earl of
Radnor. The map also shows the fields belonging to
Cranley Farm. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more..
(Aerial Representation)
This image displays the majority of
the 1821 Tithe Map for Lyneham Manor. This great illustration
shows how the village used to be be. It is remarkable
to see how few buildings were built in the community
and the area is overtaken by agricultural land, Lyneham
Court and pasture lands. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Preston
Farms)
The image shows the Preston Lane
Farms along the main road which travelled from Church
End to Preston Brook. Also Preston village is illustrated. |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Thickthorn
Farm)
This map part shows the surrounding
fields to Thickthorn Farm owned at the time by Thomas
Large |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Clack)
This small section of
the Heneage Estate map of 1821 shows Clack village,
with Cock Mead (393) which was owned by Thomas Hopkins |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (The
Strings)
This map illustrates the majority of The
Strings courseway on the Heneage Estate map of 1821 from
Freegrove Farm top running down
through The Strings and Great Copse (372), Auliff Copse
(371) and Hancocks Hill (370) The
bottom of the map shows The Strings and Ashen Copse (Littlecott
Ash Bed (262)) |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Tockenham
Court Farm)
This map part shows the surrounding
fields to Tockenham Court Farm owned at the time
by Joseph Large |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Frithgrove
Farm)
This map part shows the surrounding
fields to Frithgrove Farm (Freegrove) owned at
the time by Messr Large |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Lyneham
Green)
This image shows the north of the village the
main fields around Lyneham Green down to Pound Farm (87) |
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The
Tithe Maps of Lyneham Estate 1821 more.. (Lyneham
Church Farm)
This image shows the north of the village the
main fields around Lyneham Church Farm (322) down to Calne Road Toll Bar. Lyneham
Church Farm was owned by James Pullen |
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