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Wiltshire County Council - Wiltshire Community History Get Population/Census Information (2182 words) |
 | The charter may not be genuine, and Everleigh may be misidentified, but at face value this evidence suggests that the wood or clearing of the wild boar, which is the meaning of the name, was of interest to royalty quite early in the Saxon period. |
 | Medieval Everleigh, despite its downland position entirely on upper chalk, practised the normal sheep and corn husbandry, although it had little meadowland and without a river no watermill (a windmill, west of the village, was in use until the nineteenth century). |
 | Everleigh lay on a formerly important northsouth route, the Old Marlborough Road, which in 1675 was reckoned to link Salisbury with the Cotswolds, and which appears to overlie a Roman road, or Romanized prehistoric trackway. |
| Everleigh, Wiltshire at AllExperts (230 words) |
 | Everleigh is a Hamlet and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. |
 | Everleigh itself is one of only a hand full of places actually situated on Salisbury plain on all sides and therefore the borders of this Hamlet can not grow as the surrounding land is owned by the MOD. |
 | Everleigh is a civil parish with an elected parish council. |