1864 COUNTY FIRE OFFICE INSURANCE POLICY 6 Houses at Westport, MALMESBURY

Description: 1864 COUNTY FIRE OFFICE INSURANCE POLICY 6 Houses at Westport, MALMESBURY. Superb Condition WESTPORT. Westport was a separate settlement linked to Malmesbury by a short stretch of road along a narrow ridge and, as its name implies, it lay outside the west gate of Malmesbury. (fn. 1) It had a church in the late Saxon period, and later both Brokenborough and Charlton churches were dependent on Westport church. (fn. 2) Nearly all the land around the town of Malmesbury belonged to Malmesbury abbey, possibly from soon after its foundation in the 7th century, and, perhaps before the Conquest when St. Paul's church in Malmesbury may have been standing, (fn. 3) the abbey assigned some of the land to Westport church as a parish. Apart from Brokenborough and Charlton, the parish had an irregular shape almost like a figure 8 with the church and main settlement in the centre: it comprised land north, west, and south-west of the town and included the hamlets or farmsteads called Filands and Thornhill and possibly a hamlet called Walcot. (fn. 4) As a suburb of Malmesbury, part of the settlement called Westport was within the boundary of Malmesbury borough. The land owned by the borough, in the early 17th century called King's Heath, was added to Westport parish and extended the parish south-westwards: most of King's Heath, the south-west part, was later called Malmesbury common. (fn. 5) In 1840 the parish was 2,036 a. (824 ha.). For reasons suggested elsewhere much of the parish boundary was irregular and six small areas, mainly embraced by Malmesbury and Brokenborough parishes, were detached. (fn. 6) The Westport parish boundary followed a tributary of the Sherston branch of the Bristol Avon south of Malmesbury, both the Sherston Avon and the Tetbury branch of the Avon west of Malmesbury, and short stretches of road in several places. For a short distance the boundary was the town wall of Malmesbury. For most of its length, however, the parish boundary was not marked by prominent features, and to the west that with Brokenborough through Hyam park was defined only in 1838. : Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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