Kilmington (Kilmington)
Kilmington is a village and civil parish in the extreme west of Wiltshire, England, about 8 mi southwest of Warminster. The parish includes the hamlets of Kilmington Common and Norton Ferris.
The parish lies on the northern edge of the ancient Selwood Forest. Whitesheet Hill is in the south-east of the parish, and Long Knoll (288m above sea level) is a long ridge on the northern parish boundary. Until 1896 Kilmington was in the historic county of Somerset, as part of the Norton Ferris Hundred.
There is much evidence of prehistoric activity on White Sheet Downs, including a Neolithic causewayed camp. Further south, straddling the parish boundary, is a large Iron Age hillfort called White Sheet Camp or White Sheet Castle, which incorporates two bowl barrows. At the Domesday survey of 1086, land in the area was part of an extensive holding (53 ploughlands) within Mere hundred.
In 1556 Kilmington was the scene of the ambush and murder of two members of the Hartgilll family on the orders of Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton, for which crime he was hanged at Salisbury the following year.
The parish lies on the northern edge of the ancient Selwood Forest. Whitesheet Hill is in the south-east of the parish, and Long Knoll (288m above sea level) is a long ridge on the northern parish boundary. Until 1896 Kilmington was in the historic county of Somerset, as part of the Norton Ferris Hundred.
There is much evidence of prehistoric activity on White Sheet Downs, including a Neolithic causewayed camp. Further south, straddling the parish boundary, is a large Iron Age hillfort called White Sheet Camp or White Sheet Castle, which incorporates two bowl barrows. At the Domesday survey of 1086, land in the area was part of an extensive holding (53 ploughlands) within Mere hundred.
In 1556 Kilmington was the scene of the ambush and murder of two members of the Hartgilll family on the orders of Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton, for which crime he was hanged at Salisbury the following year.
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ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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GBP | Pound sterling | £ | 2 |
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EN | English language |
GD | Gaelic language |
CY | Welsh language |