IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Green, CHIPPENHAM, SN14 7DG

Stonehaven, number 3 The Green, was originally two 18th century buildings, the one to the right being older. The house was refenestrated in the early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1198880 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

The Old Wool House, number 5 The Green, with its unusual mansard roof was earlier known as Holmleigh. Built in the early 19th century with the large ground floor bay window inserted in the 20th century. See also Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022834 Number 7 The Green is dated 1759 and was refenestrated in the 19th century. See also Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283649 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

The Old Wool House, number 5 The Green, with its unusual mansard roof was earlier known as Holmleigh. Built in the early 19th century with the large ground floor bay window inserted in the 20th century. See also Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022834 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

Number 7 The Green is dated 1759 and was refenestrated in the 19th century. See also Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283649 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

The Cottage, number 1 The Green, is mid 18th century with a later, lower extension and a 20th century lean-to garage. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022833 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

Fine houses flank the north side of The Green. The war memorial is on the right.

"Description in 1868: BIDDESTONE, (or Bidstone), a parish, township, and village in the hundred of Chippenham, in the county of Wilts, 4 miles to the W. of Chippenham, its post town, and 18 from Bristol. It formerly constituted two parishes, St. Nicholas and St. Peter, but they are now united for ecclesiastical purposes. The brook called the Wavering flows through the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value with the curacy of Slaughterford, £102, in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure, and was thoroughly repaired in 1850. It has a monument to Edmund Smith, a poet of some note at the beginning of the 18th century, who died at Hartham House, in this parish. The church of St. Peter has been taken down. There is a chapel belonging to the Baptists, and a National school. The charities amount to £23 per annum. Lord Methuen is lord of the manor." The above was copied from: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Biddestone/index.htm

Willow House is dated 1730 and was extended in 1908 and again in 1982. There is original panelling in one of the ground fkloor rooms. The garden wall and gate piers are included in the listing - see Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022836 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

The garden wall and gate piers of Willow House. Willow House is dated 1730 and was extended in 1908 and again in 1982. There is original panelling in one of the ground fkloor rooms. see Image Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022836 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.