Stratford sub Castle Village Website
Salisbury, Wiltshire UK
Boundary Stone
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Just north of the Devenish Nature Reserve the Monarch’s Way and Pewsey Avon Trails cross.
Alongside the path leading downhill to Salterton Farm is a stone (not concrete) inscribed 'JW'.
The JW was Jerry Woodford of Dean’s Farm, Stratford sub Castle, his surname Woodford and stones marking the boundary of his land in the Woodford Valley is a coincidence. He was farming at the outbreak of the Second World War and these stones were in place by then.[1]
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On the Tithe map of 19 June 1843 this point is where the land of John Davis, tenant John Hyde, met (to the south east) that of Edward Hinxman (of Little Durnford Manor), joint tenants Joseph and Edmund Olding.
This stone is not shown on the first nor second Ordnance Survey maps but appears in the 20th Century on the third as does another due south of it at the corner of the Roundabout plot.[2] This is not on a (Durnford) parish boundary.
1844-1888 OS 25” 1st Ed from Know Your Place
1894-1903 OS 25” 2nd Ed
from Know Your Place
1898-1939 OS 25” 3rd Ed
from Know Your Place
Roundabout is a house built between 1899 and 1915, when it was lived in by the architect A. C. Bothams.[3]
The place name Roundabout predates the house. It refers to a stone (no longer there) on the top of the hill from where there was a good view “roundabout”.[4]
Kerry O’Connor
March 2022
Sources
[1] Bray, Roy. Octogenarian and life long local resident and for thirty five years local farm worker whose father knew Jerry Woodford, personal communication.
[2] Maps from Wiltshire Historic Environment Record https://services.wiltshire.gov.uk/HistoryEnvRecord/Home/Index © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2021, Ordnance Survey 150049050. © Copyright Getmapping PLC.
[3] A P Baggs, Jane Freeman and Janet H Stevenson, 'Parishes: Durnford', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 15, Amesbury Hundred, Branch and Dole Hundred, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1995), pp. 79-93. British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol15/pp79-93 [accessed 2 November 2021].
[4] Thompson, S. Local Resident. Personal communication.
Location details:
Grid Reference SU 13045 35391 Grid Reference (6 figure) SU130353 X (Easting) , Y (Northing) 413045 , 135391 Latitude , Longitude (decimal) 51.117661 , -1.8150052 Latitude , Longitude (degs, mins, secs) 51°07′04″N , 001°48′54″W
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The footpath leading to Salterton Farm is a section of footpath DURN17, recorded on the Wiltshire Council Definitive Map
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This article supplies the answer to Question No. 41 in the website's
Local History Photo Quiz.