Cemeteries · South East England
Urchfont Cemetery
Urchfont Cemetery is a cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Urchfont Cemetery is a cemetery in South-East England of architectural and local-history note. The site is within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB), and is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Melksham and Devizes parliamentary constituency. Postcode area SN10.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Avon System SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: North Wessex Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Urchfont is a rural village and civil parish in the southwest of the Vale of Pewsey and north of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) southeast of the market town of Devizes. The hamlet of Cuckoo's Corner is in the northwest of the village; the parish includes the hamlets of Wedhampton (grid reference SU060577) and Lydeway (SU052578). The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 1,075. Urchfont village lies mostly to the north of the B3098 road which connects Market Lavington to the A342 Devizes-Upavon road. The parish narrows as it extends southeast onto Salisbury Plain and into the military training area.
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Background
History
There are remains of several bowl barrows on the downland in the south of the parish, Medieval strip lynchets can be seen on the north-facing slope of Urchfont Hill. Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a large settlement of 82 households at Lerchesfonte, with three mills, and land held by St Mary's Abbey, Winchester. The land (later as separate estates of Urchfont, Northcombe and Wedhampton) continued in the ownership of the abbey until the Dissolution in the 1530s. housed an adult education college from 1947 until 2012, when it returned to residential use. Downland in the south of the parish was bought by the War Department in stages from 1897, and today forms part of the military Salisbury…
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- Coordinates
- 51.3114, -1.9390
- District
- Wiltshire
- Parish
- Urchfont
- Postcode
- SN10 4RT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Melksham and Devizes
- Official site
- www.urchfont-pc.gov.uk
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Urchfont Cemetery?
- Urchfont Cemetery is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SN10 4RT), in the parish of Urchfont.
- Is Urchfont Cemetery a protected site?
- Yes — Urchfont Cemetery is part of the River Avon System SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape (AONB).
- How do I get to Urchfont Cemetery?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SN10 4RT. It sits within the Melksham and Devizes parliamentary constituency.