Bushton is an English hamlet about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire. It belongs to the civil parish of Clyffe Pypard.
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![]() The Trotting Horse pub in 2007 | |
![]() ![]() Bushton Location within Wiltshire | |
OS grid reference | SU063779 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Swindon |
Postcode district | SN4 |
Dialling code | 01793 |
Police | Wiltshire |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
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Website | Parish |
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In 1086, the Domesday Book recorded an estate at Bushton, held by the Bishop of Winchester.[1] By the 17th century the manor of Bushton had become a tithing of Clyffe Pypard parish.[2]
Manor Farmhouse is a Georgian house of five bays built of brick with stone trim in the early 18th century.[3]
Woodhill Park, near Bushton, is a Georgian country house built in the 18th century. Richard Pace added the south-east range in 1804.[4]
The pamphleteer and poet Ralph Broome (1742–1835) was born and raised in the hamlet.[5] Also born at Bushton was the Jesuit missionary to India Thomas Stephens (c. 1549–1619).
The parish's village hall is at Bushton.[6]
Bushton's public house, the Trotting Horse, closed down in 2016 for conversion into a residence.[7]
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