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Beechingstoke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (126 words) |
 | Beechingstoke is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. |
| Beechingstoke is a civil parish with an elected parish council. |
| Kennet District Council Website page on Beechingstoke parish, retrieved 01:00 Oct 6, 2004 (UTC) |
| Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Population/Census Information (908 words) |
| A Victorian rector of Beechingstoke knew a tradition that a church had existed in a field in the area, and a priestÂ’s dwelling is mentioned near present-day Broad Street in the charter of 941. |
| This began with the opening in 1810 of the Kennet and Avon Canal and its wharf at Honeystreet, and was continued by the Kennett and Amesbury turnpike of 1840, and the construction of the Devizes railway with a station (called Woodborough Station) in the parish in 1862. |
| The turnpike trust improved not only the north–south route towards Upavon, but also the minor road which crosses the parish from south of the railway bridge at Beechingstoke Farm (known as Bottle Farm in the nineteenth century), through Marden Henge and across the stream (where a new bridge was constructed) to Marden itself. |
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