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Hippenscombe is a hamlet within the civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. Marked only on large-scale maps, it lies to the southwest of Oakhill Wood and the northwest of Conholt Park, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Hungerford, Berkshire.

Hippenscombe
Hippenscombe Bottom
Hippenscombe Location within Wiltshire
OS grid reference	SU310561
Civil parish	Tidcombe and Fosbury
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Marlborough
Postcode district	SN8
Dialling code	01264
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Devizes
List of places UK England Wiltshire 51.303°N 1.556°W / 51.303; -1.556

Hippenscombe has a long separate history of its own, having been an extra-parochial area.[1] Much of the land was assigned in 1553 to Edward Seymour (1539–1621), later Earl of Hertford and the builder of Tottenham House in Savernake Forest, and was owned by his descendants until sold by Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury in 1827.[1]

The area was severely affected by the Swing Riots of 1830.[2] The population taken at 19th-century censuses was never more than 59, and by 1891 had declined to 35.[3]

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) said of Hippenscombe:

HIPPENSCOMBE, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Hants and Berks, 4¼ miles NE of Ludgershall. Acres, 980. Real property, £545. Pop., 42. Houses, 11.[4]

Hippenscombe was added to Tidcombe ecclesiastical parish in 1879[5] and to Tidcombe and Fosbury civil parish in 1894.[1]

References

External links

• SU3156 : Above Hippenscombe (photograph at geograph.org.uk)
• Hippenscombe at old-maps.co.uk

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