Hilperton Village Design Statement

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Statement 1. INTRODUCTION

2005 Any village in this Country today is always likely to be subject to change. It is not only large developments which can alter a village, but it can be equally affected by smaller alterations. Conversions, additions to buildings, homes, gardens, pressure on open spaces, footpaths, hedgerows, even street signs can also affect the look and feel of a village. Change cannot be prevented or undone and there will always be a need to move with the times CONTENTS if the village is to remain a lively and attractive community. However, new developments large and small can be planned and designed in a way that will enhance the existing character of the village and this document provides Part 1 General Information advice on how to do that. The aim of the advice is to minimise the impact on Hilperton as a whole, 1. Introduction 3 and to ensure that any further development or change will protect and enhance the character of the village and its surrounding area. As 2. A tour of the parish 4 Supplementary Planning Guidance, the recommendations will help to guide the decisions of the Planning Authority, and so will have to be taken into Planning Guidance account by: statutory bodies, public authorities, planners, developers, Part 2 builders, architects, designers, engineers, local community groups, commercial enterprises, and by individuals, making planning applications. 3. Planning context 9 The area that was studied for the purpose of this Statement comprises 4. Hilperton set in its surroundings 10 everything contained within the Parish Boundary plus a small area which falls outside the Parish Boundary, altogether covering some 800 hectares. 5. The old village 13 This consists of the old village of Hilperton, Hilperton Marsh, the settlement 6. Hilperton Marsh 17 at Whaddon, and the whole of new development at Paxcroft Mead. A large part of the old village is designated a Conservation Area. The Planning Authority (West District Council) has also defined a Part 3 Reference Village Policy Limit enclosing the conservation area, much of the old village outside it and Hilperton Marsh, restricting development outside. Paxcroft Mead is a new housing development adjoining and covered by 7. Statement of consultation 20 urban planning guidance. 8. Who to contact about village issues 20 This document, which has been produced by a Steering Group made up of 9. Acknowledgments 21 local people, is based on a considered understanding of Hilperton’s past; describes the village as it is today and makes recommendations for the 10. Glossary 21 future. It highlights the qualities valued by its residents, whose views, and 11. Map 23 opinions were obtained at a series of public exhibitions held in April 2002. Please pass this document on to any future occupant of your house.

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2. A TOUR OF THE PARISH the name of Hilperton, but still bearing semi-detached houses. There is the Saxon influence. an access road to the Gardens Estate. Hilperton is a village in the county of Wiltshire, in the West Apart from the names of numerous Wiltshire District Council area. It is a long ribbon settlement, owners and tenants of land, little seems Hill Street leads from Marsh one mile to the east of Wiltshire’s county town, Trowbridge. to have been recorded of any events road at the junction with Horse The towns of Bradford-on-Avon, , Devizes and in Hilperton’s history until the first Road. In the corner formed by Westbury are all less than ten miles away, and it is twelve official census in 1801, when a working these roads are Marshmead miles to the south east of the historic city of Bath. It is at the population of 708 was recorded. Only and Newleaze, with houses top of a gradual incline on a bed of mainly Oxford Clay 20 people were employed in mostly built in grey with Alluvium in parts. The highest point in the Parish, at agriculture, compared with 688 reconstituted stone or concrete the Parish Church of St Michael, is sixty-four metres above employed in Trade, Manufacturing and block. Marshmead includes 40 sea level, and is on a par with the top of the spire of St Handicrafts’ industries, probably linked n houses that were built as a self- James Church in Trowbridge. The land drops away to 30 to the existence of the large Woollen build project, one of the first schemes metres on the northern Parish boundary formed by the River Industry in Trowbridge and also that by Wyke Road, Marsh Road, and of its kind in Britain. Started in 1950, Avon and the Kennet and Avon canal. And at 40 metres, on the owners of the Mills lived in the group of people included a few n Horse Road. The housing development the southern boundary is Paxcroft Mead, a housing Hilperton, so it seems safe to assume skilled builders, but mainly office or Hilperton House in the middle of this triangle was built development commenced in 2000, which has doubled the that their workers also lived here. in the 1960s. At one time, there used to other workers, a majority of whom number of houses in the parish. The population of Hilperton small businesses. Some of the newest enterprises are the Many of the older cottages in the be a public house at each corner of the had not put a spade in the ground in April 2002 was 4296, based on the Electoral Roll. There development of those associated with the Kennet and Avon village are thought to have been triangle. The Prince of Wales is now a before this project. A good many are were 1796 dwellings of a great variety, types, ages and styles, canal, where there is a holiday boat hire company, moorings weavers’ homes. private house. The Ring O’ Bells on still occupied by members of the from the oldest found in the Conservation Area, surrounding original group or their family. The and boat supplies and a small Touring Caravan Park. In the There are four visually distinctive Marsh Road near the junction with St Michael and All Angels Church to the newest at the project was finished and opened in countryside surrounding the built-up areas are many farms, residential areas in Hilperton Parish; Horse Road, is now a guest house and Paxcroft Mead development. The key roads running through 1954. It caused a lot of interest at the about 50% having an interest in arable and 50% in animals, Hilperton Marsh in the north; the old on the other corner, closest to the the Parish are the B3105 to Staverton, and through to join time and was a remarkable achieve- beef, and dairy. Some of these have diversified with small village in the centre; further south, the Canal, is the King’s Arms, which the A363 north of Bradford-on-Avon; and the A361, ment considering that the group had business units along side their agricultural interests. new development of Paxcroft Mead; remains a pub. recently diverted to pass through the Paxcroft Mead virtually no model to follow and and the fourth is the hamlet of development. Unfortunately the level of traffic through the There is evidence of both Iron Age settlement and Roman Wyke Road was once the main received no external encouragement or Whaddon, in the Northeast corner of village, especially heavy goods vehicles, detract from its rural habitation at Whaddon. East of the church is a well thoroughfare from Trowbridge to media interest. Newleaze was local the parish. character. The proposed expansion and development east of preserved example of an abandoned medieval settlement. Staverton, Holt, and Melksham. authority housing although many of Trowbridge will inevitably increase these levels. There is a The settlement is well documented and its ownership can be Opening on to it was the driveway to the houses are now owner occupied traced from 1086 to the present day. It is a Scheduled Wyke House, a large property, owned regular bus service to Trowbridge and Melksham. Hilperton Marsh and it provides the only access to the Monument, protected by English Heritage. Throughout the by the Hammond family, who were village school, other than a footway Hilperton has a strong sense of community spirit, with many parish there is documented evidence at 30 sites of artifacts The Kennet and Avon Canal, opened in owners of cloth mills in Trowbridge. link to Hill Street. There is also some thriving special interest groups. The village hall and playing and settlements ranging from bronze age flints and iron age 1810, forms part of the northern The original Jacobean house was built housing for older residents. field in Whaddon Lane, St Mary’s Church which doubles as pottery to evidence of early farming. boundary of the Parish. A wharf in 1616 and was replaced with a a centre for those in the Marsh area and the new centre at constructed at the time also served the Victorian house in 1864, built in the Paxcroft Mead are all well used by groups as their base. A The earliest written mention of a settlement in the area first needs of Trowbridge. Today, this is the same grand style. Opposite was The wide range of activities for all ages are covered, from appeared in the ancient Saxon book, Cantularium Saxonium site of Hilperton Marina, a gateway for Poplars, a large Victorian house, toddlers, play-groups, scouting and guiding groups, walkers, of 964AD, was that of Hulpryngmor. In the Saxon language, visitors, just off Hammond Way characterised by a row of Poplar trees, gardeners, women’s institute to over sixties. Football, skittles it is also recorded as Hylpric, a form adjacent to an industrial estate. The of which only one remains today. In and darts are the main sports played. Events such as coffee of Helpric, a personal name, and as the ‘ingtun’ at the end canal and the wharf are a busy the late 1930s a row of semi-detached mornings, church fete, open garden day, and Christmas means dwelling or homestead. The derivation of the name thoroughfare for boat traffic and its houses was built in Wyke Road by a pantomime raise money for village charities, and take place Hilperton could simply have meant Hylpric’s Farm. In the towpath is a favourite place for builder, Mr Sprules, who at the time throughout the year. three churches presently serve the Domesday Book anglers, picnickers, ramblers, dog lived in The Poplars and subsequently community, St Michael’s and All Angels in the old village, of 1086 there is walkers, and cyclists. With the further housing developments have an entry of a used for worship by Methodists and Anglicans, also used by increased popularity of canals and covered the area. The Poplars still n Anglicans is St Mary Magdalen at Hilperton Marsh, and St settlement called boating, a number of associated remains today, but Wyke House was Self Build Marshmead. Mary the Virgin at Whaddon. There are two primary Helprintone, with businesses are starting to appear along demolished in the 1950s and the site is schools, Hilperton Church of School, Newleaze and two tenants of its length in the parish. Holiday Boat now occupied by modern housing at Much of Hill Street has houses only on The Mead, Paxcroft. Older children travel across the King. Since Hire, boat building and repairs, Tudor Drive and Saxon Way. Through one side; opposite are the arable Trowbridge to attend secondary schools. then the manors permanent moorings, caravan touring traffic to Staverton was diverted to farmlands of Marsh Farm. It has some or lands of of the first local authority houses to be The Canal Road Trading Estate abuts the Parish boundary campsite, are just a few. These Hammond Way, Wyke Road was Hilperton have built, constructed of red brick in 1926. to the north so there is no dedicated commercial area in the contribute to the life of the village, closed to vehicles at its northern end passed through Opposite this is The Giffords, a group village, but a wide variety of small-scale commercial making it more than just a residential and traffic-calming measures were many different of warden controlled elderly persons enterprises are spread throughout the Village, such as a area. introduced. families, owners bungalows. garden centre; kitchen suppliers; ice cream seller; as well as and tenants, with Before any houses were built in this Marsh Road starts at the King’s Arms two public houses, two post offices/shops, a supermarket, a area, the land literally was marsh land, with a petrol station, post office, and slight variations n gift shop, two take-aways, petrol station and car sales., hence the name of Hilperton Marsh. It shop. It has houses on each side in the spelling of Andrews and Dury map 1773 private children’s nursery, together with a number of active is centred on a triangle of roads formed ranging from old cottages to 1930s

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The Old Village development by the local Planning Authority. The roads on the Hill Street starts to rise as it enters development were largely named the old part of the village and older after the names of the original fields stone cottages with stone walled except Hackett place, which was gardens close in on either side. Little named in memory of Linda Hackett a Ashton was originally known as Parish Clerk who died just before Slades Farm and was once owned by Paxcroft Mead was completed. Donald Mackay, nephew of Major Eric Mackay, the then owner of This development has had a huge Hilperton House. Also in the same impact on the parish as it has more vicinity is Yew Tree Cottage, the once than doubled the number of houses in home of the Baptist minister, John Hilperton. It has stimulated much Dymott after whom Dymott Square thinking about our built environment. was named. The old Baptist Church The houses have been built by a schoolroom is still on this property number of well-known national house and there is an interesting old Folly builders. The design of the houses or sanctuary in the garden. follows the companies’ corporate national style too, which are not, in the main, indicative of the style of the n Lion and Fiddle Public House, which original cottages and houses. n Old Village School is a thriving business with a good There are open play areas, a Weavers Cottages, Church Street owners, who were mostly engaged in restaurant trade. A building adjoining community centre, a small parade of until 1966, when it was converted markets in Trowbridge, leads from the Woollen trade, included, in the the Pub was thought to have been shops including a supermarket, a into a home. A terrace of weavers’ the Knap. Even today, this is still a 1920s, Major Eric Mackay of Palmer where Wilts United Dairies primary school and a privately run cottages, originally a mid-17th century very well used route to Trowbridge, and Mackay, whose prominent commenced business. This enterprise nursery. Many public rights of way went on to become a nation-wide coaching inn reputedly frequented by and is a popular starting point for woollen mills occupied a large area of were diverted. Paxcroft Brook on the Trowbridge. The current owners have business and its head office once n Cromwell and his soldiers, is now walkers using the other footpaths southernmost boundary of the Parish occupied large premises in known as Cherry Tree Cottages, after leading from the Knap. Due to a lack carried out extensive restoration was considerably altered to control Hill Street 1985 Trowbridge. It later merged with Cow the trees planted in the 1930s by of other parking spaces in the village, works. Behind its wall is a large, flooding and landscaped with traffic and Gate and became Unigate. At a narrow right hand bend Hill Major Mackay of Hilperton House. the Knap has become a parking place spring fed pond at one time thought free areas where residents can walk Eastwards is Devizes Road, where Street leads into Church Street. In Spring of each year these trees in for cars belonging to residents, and to be the origin of the village name – and cycle. New footbridges were built traffic calming measures and a Whaddon Lane branches off to the full bloom are a familiar village scene. for those using the church. ‘hilsprintun’ or hill with springs. At over the brook at various points left here and there is a driveway to The cottages are Grade II listed, but one time, there were over 60 wells in 20mph speed limit have been together with a road bridge to the old and new Rectory. There is a the last cottage, 231, was not actually T H Wyatt rebuilt the original twelfth the village and many still remain in introduced. At the junction is one of southern areas of the development. A record of the existence of the old built until the 1920s. Cherry Gardens century church of St Michael and All private gardens. two turnpike houses in Church Street cyclepath and footway running under Angels between 1847 and 1852 in the (the other being at the corner of The Rectory in 1672. It was sold when a was built on allotments at the rear of The village school was located in the the A361 allows people living north fourteenth century style. However, the Knap ), reminders of the days when new rectory was built in the orchard the cottages in the 1960s, which Knap from 1832 until 1970 when of the road to gain access to the tower, south porch, and nave floor the main route to Trowbridge lay next to it in 1980 and is now a involved demolishing an old cottage new premises were opened in school and shops. date back to Norman times and were along Church Street and along private house. The stables belonging to gain access. Newleaze. The old school building to the old Rectory have been retained during the rebuilding. It has Middle Lane. Road tolls ceased in The Knap, from ‘cnaepp’ – a hill in has now been converted into a private converted into another house. About a three-stage tower, topped with an 1868, and the gates across the road Whaddon old English, is a cul-de-sac, joining residence with an added storey and 100m down Whaddon Lane are octagonal “broach” spire. There is were removed. The Turnpike house’s The hamlet of Whaddon is one mile Church Street. In the Knap are St dormer windows, but still has the Hilperton Village Hall and Playing also a clock with faces to the south roof was raised in 1926, making it a to the northeast of the old village and Michael’s and All Angels Church, school bell in its place on the roof. Fields. The Hall, originally a and east. There is a peal of six bells, two-storey house. Next to the is reached via Whaddon Lane, a Hilperton House, the old school, and The schoolmaster’s house also converted nissen hut, was rebuilt and which is unusual in so small a tower. Turnpike House, built in the early single track road. It is situated schoolhouse. Middle Lane, a public remains as a private dwelling. opened in 1974, with a further The oldest bell was cast in 1663 and 1800s, is a house once a shop, tea- beyond the Kennet and Avon canal, bridleway that is thought to have extension in 1981. Although by no bears the name of John Slade, who Opposite the Knap is the War rooms and bakery. Nearby is The and overlooks the River Avon. The been an old drove road for villagers Grange, a large Victorian house built means an architectural gem, the Hall was the church warden at the time. Memorial, which commemorates houses are strung out along the lane, taking their sheep and cattle to in 1859. Standing in large grounds, it and its playing field is the social He lived in 209 Church Street, as did those lost in the two World Wars. with clusters beyond the canal, rivals Hilperton House for size and centre of the community, and both his family for over 200 years. The Alongside this is the village lock-up around the Church, and surrounding grandeur. are used by many organisations. original church of St Michael and All or Blind House, so named because it Whaddon Grove Farm. Many have has no windows. Thought to have At the top of Church Street is the Angels was valued at £5 in 1291. By been renovated or rebuilt on sites of been in existence before 1600, it was former Wesleyan Methodist chapel 1535, this had risen to £16! Paxcroft Mead older properties. used to ‘house’ miscreants. It is and schoolroom. Built in 1891 to Hilperton House, once visited by scheduled as an ancient monument by The Paxcroft Mead development in Whaddon is an ancient site, which replace an earlier chapel of 1819; it Queen Mary, could be considered as English Heritage and is in the the very south of the Parish covers has been occupied since prehistoric has been converted into two homes. the most important house in the ownership of the Parish Council. approximately 100 hectares of times and there is evidence of Roman Adjoining this is the Old Crown, built n village and is favourite village feature previously agricultural land, which habitation. Humps and hollows in the in about 1800 and a public house The Knap with many residents. Its previous At the end of Church Street is the was designated for residential field around the Church mark the site

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3. PLANNING CONTEXT villages and rural areas. The Council’s planning controls exist in conservation current District Plan 1st Alteration areas over minor alterations to existing was adopted in June 2004 and covers land uses and buildings and over The Development Plan the period to 2011. Future local proposals for demolitions or tree Development in is developments and documents will works. planned at regional, county and local progressively replace the Local Plan. levels. Local development documents are prepared in accordance with Village Design Statement national planning policies and Village Policy Limits This guidance supplements the guidance. The District wide local plan identifies following policies contained within the village policy limits for over 30 villages The Structure Plan adopted West Wiltshire District Plan in West Wiltshire including Hilperton. 1st Alteration: The Structure Plan is prepared by Within these policy limits limited infill Wiltshire County Council and sets out housing development to support local C17-C25 Conservation Areas; C26- the broad strategic planning policy for services will be permitted provided C29 Listed Buildings; C31a Design; the whole county. The Wiltshire that a number of detailed criteria are C40 Trees and Tree Planting; R2 Structure Plan 2011 covers the period met. Protection of Recreation Areas; H16 to 2011 and was approved in January Flat Conversions; H17 Village Policy 2001. A new structure plan is Limits; H18 Areas of Minimum expected to be approved in Spring Hilperton Conservation Area Change; H21 Residential Conversions 2005 to cover the period to 2016. The Hilperton Conservation Area was in the Countryside; H24 New Housing designated in 1991 to preserve and Design; E6 Rural Employment; E7 enhance the special architectural or Farm Diversification; E8 Employment The District Local Plan historic interest of this area of the Conversions in the Countryside; E10 The District local plan is prepared by village. Within or adjacent to this area, Horse Related Development; T03 View from Whaddon the District Council and elaborates on the preservation of the special Hotels, Guest Houses and Self the structure plan policy framework by character or appearance is the primary Catering Accommodation; T04 of a medieval village. This is a on the tithe map of 1838. Four of is a tombstone on the church floor providing detailed development consideration when assessing Camping, Caravans, Holiday Homes; scheduled ancient monument these houses have gone but three new opposite the south door dedicated to policies and proposals for the towns, proposals for development. Stricter CF3 Rural and Village Facilities. protected due to its archeological houses were built in the 20th century the Rev. Edward Cooper, an uncle of importance. At the time of the and one outbuilding opposite Jane Austen. There was a close Domesday Book, it was a small Whaddon Farm at the centre of the relationship between the Austen village with a manor house and a hamlet. This was originally the stable family and their Cooper cousins. mill. It was larger and more of the vicarage house and has been Outside, the brick wall enclosing the important than Hilperton, but in the converted to a single storey residence. churchyard is an unusual feature in 14th century Whaddon suffered a Agricultural buildings belonging to this part of Wiltshire, and dates from significant depopulation because of both farms now make up much of the the 18th century. the plague, the Black Death. In the hamlet. These range from modern 16th century, it was simply a cloth- galvanised metal barns, to old stone making site with a mill on the barns. The agricultural use is mainly brook. dairy with some cattle and a pig- rearing unit. Some business The Long family, who were wealthy diversification has taken place. clothiers, once owned Whaddon, together with Hilperton and other St Mary’s the Virgin, or estates in Wiltshire. In 1660, Walter the ‘church in the field’ is Long built a large addition to the a small, simple Norman manor house. Whaddon House, church, with a nave, which was surrounded by parkland, chancel and north chapel. was destroyed by fire in the 19th It stands high above the century. Whaddon Grove Farm now River Avon, and was stands on the site of the House. There probably built in the remains a 17th century back door in twelfth century but it has a moulded frame. There are two undergone extensive stone former dairies. A pair of semi- alterations with a major detached stone cottages, to the south restoration in 1878/79. It of Whaddon Farm, was the Poor still features windows and House in the 1830s. Eight houses doors from the 14th and

n were noted in 1783, and appear again 15th centuries. Of interest n Whaddon Church A sunny day in Dymott Square Audrey Hall

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4. HILPERTON SET IN ITS SURROUNDINGS: of obtaining Tree Preservation Orders where appropriate. There are still several The vast majority of land in the Parish Gap. These are principally used by dog Path 17, used by local horse riders, areas where trees add interest to the is open countryside, amounting to walkers (including walkers from runs on the opposite side of the canal. landscape, are of importance to the village approximately 600 hectares. All the Trowbridge). Path numbers are 1, 2, 3, It joins up in Semington with path 22 environs and form essential wildlife land, apart from public areas such 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 33, and 54. The which is the only safe rideable circuit habitats. Examples are: the row of beech playing fields, is farmed; fields beside the B3105 were known as not ending at a busy road. and cluster of pine and lime trees in fields approximately half is arable and half Courtleaze and those nearest Horse Semington Brook joins the Avon at on the approach to Hilperton from pasture. The earliest record of the field Road were known as Cowleaze. Path Whaddon alongside pasture and is an Trowbridge; two separate oaks at Marsh boundaries largely as they appear 33 is a pleasant walk to and from important area of scrub and copse. Farm and Paxcroft Farm; the two copses of today can be found in the Enclosure Trowbridge, featuring hedge, ditch, Several streams occur in the Parish that ash and maple off Whaddon Lane and at Map of 1816 and again in the Tithe raised path, and a useful wide also create diverse habitats for wildlife. Paxcroft. It is worth noting that trees with Map of 1837. All the fields shown on bridleway. It cuts across the middle of Running through Paxcroft Mead is trunks of over 75mm (3ins) in diameter the Tithe Map have individual names. the “gap” and gives expansive views Paxcroft Brook, which has been growing in the Conservation Area cannot The field and hedgerow pattern created across to Bradford and Holt. There are widened to control flooding and this in be lopped or felled without consent of the then, with its typical patchwork form, pockets of ecological interest with turn has created open areas and local Planning Authority. This includes can still be appreciated today even hedgerows, old ponds and hay habitats for many creatures trees in private gardens. with modern farming practices. Where meadows. Although the hedgerows are arable farming is practised, some not the best in the Parish, they are still Farm ponds can be found in the open The Parish Boundary plays a crucial role in hedgerows have been grubbed out. In inhabited with a good range of wildlife countryside but many of these have the protection of our landscape and the south, a large area of open and many species of birds. The narrow been neglected and are generally n wildlife resources. Approximately three- farmland has been lost to the new brook at its lowest point always has overgrown or used as a dumping View to Roundway Hill from byway 22 quarters of the boundary is in open countryside and water in it even in the driest of ground. Some have been filled in usually consists of a sometimes double hedgerow, ditch, housing development at Paxcroft To the east the village adjoins open countryside that weather. completely. Two ponds have been and bank. This is generally unmanaged and uncut, and Mead, as have smaller areas within the spreads out along both sides of the ridge bordering Gypsy village due to infilling. Those areas created in recent years at Marsh Farm contains many native hedgerow species such as The Kennet and Avon Canal crosses Lane (byway no.22 to Semington) and affords widespread that remain support a varied range of and Paxcroft Farm, adjacent to blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel, elder and dog rose. Ash, oak the Parish from east to west and is an rural views to Whaddon and beyond and to Salisbury Paxcroft Brook. Both these take run and field maple trees are present along with the occasional wildlife and species of birds, and can important landscape and wildlife Plain. To the southeast open countryside lies between the off water during flooding but are crab apple, and willow and alder if near water. These trees be accessed by a network of public feature. It is of crucial worth for its B3105, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the River Avon. managed sympathetically. The area are all more likely to grow to maturity if situated in a footpaths and rights of way. amenity value, for boating, fishing, These areas are easily accessible through the fields except known as Hilperton Marsh has largely boundary hedge. To the west, between the village and walking and cycling. This and the when recently ploughed. been drained and built on. Boundary hedges between farms in different ownership Trowbridge, is the area of land, known River Avon form the northern also provide areas richer in wildlife, and shape important colloquially as the Hilperton Gap. This boundary of the Parish. The river The open countryside setting is an wildlife corridors. These in turn provide links to the River is an important area of open valley in particular incorporates a rich essential part of Hilperton’s rural Avon and to the Kennet and Avon Canal. Many dead elms countryside, as it provides a barrier area of marshland. These two are often left unchecked in the corridors and hedgerows. If between the village and the eastern waterways are designated as character. they were extracted and destroyed it would prevent the outskirts of Trowbridge. There are County Wildlife Sites and are Some fields in the Parish, display evidence of the ancient further spread of Dutch elm disease. Elms can, and do attractive rural views across the Gap managed by the Environment ridge and furrow method of farming. Four areas thrive, in hedgerows if either traditional layering or from the old village and to the church Agency and British Waterways. displaying this are in the Gap, including Church Field, cutting checks their growth. from Hilperton Marsh which They provide an excellent and adjoining the Cemetery, others can be found at Whaddon, contribute greatly to the village interesting nature corridor and between Maxcroft and Marsh Farms atmosphere and character of conveniently reached via adjacent to the Canal. Further surveys may Hilperton. Middle Lane, a public Whaddon Lane and through discover more examples. Marsh Farm. The canal is a bridleway, lined with hedgerows, trees There are no areas of woodland in the Parish and a deep ditch, reminiscent of the favourite area for informal recreation and has the most but trees add interest to the landscape, sited in old drove roads, crosses the Gap from the open countryside, either standing alone or in the village to Victoria Road in popular paths for local and long distance visitors. Path 31, small groups. A copse is situated west of Trowbridge. Every day many people Whaddon Lane with ash and maple but with use it to gain access to the fields in the the towpath, is part of the Sustrans national network of many dead elms. Another one is sited at Paxcroft Gap, and in particular those walkers, Mead. Farmers have planted trees and shrubs in joggers and cyclists going to the town cycleways which attracts long distance cyclists. British the Parish including oak, cherry, ash, and broad- as it avoids the busy roads. The rest of leaved lime among other species either in the land, which is criss-crossed by a Waterways estimates in 1995 between Bradford on Avon clumps, or in hedgerows or alongside farm network of Public Rights of Way, is an tracks. The orchards that were once important amenity area for informal bridge and Martinslade bridge (near ) suggested there commonplace around the village have all but recreation, which for the most part disappeared, although remnants remain in back runs successfully alongside its were 332,000 informal visitors along this 14 kilometre length, gardens, notably along Church Street. The Parish agricultural uses. The most popular Council undertook a survey of trees in the footpaths are those radiating from the plus 7000 anglers and 62,000 cyclists, with 1000 boats. n residential areas in 2002 and are in the process n Knap across the open fields of the Farm pond, Marsh farm Landmark trees from Fieldways

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There is evidence in some hedgerows Whaddon Lane and Semington in the especially at Fieldways. Wide verges are typical, in some of the traditional layering method, north to Lower Paxcroft in the south. areas including pavements e.g. Devizes Road, which was carried out long ago. This Hill Street and Marsh Road. Hedgerows are common Public open spaces at the playing field method of hedgerow layering should giving a rural look and acting as natural boundaries in Whaddon Lane and alongside the be encouraged, as it provides the best between properties. brook at Paxcroft Mead provide habitats for wildlife. Also, it is stock opportunities for wildlife In Ashton Road there is an abrupt juxtaposition of proof, and once established needs enhancement projects. Gardens have Paxcroft Mead with the older village, having no similarity much less annual upkeep. A layered become increasingly important for in house design or layout. This is masked by high hedgerow can last up to twenty years hedgerows, which screen the view from each side. without any further work. Those wildlife now that many natural hedgerows found on Lower Paxcroft habitats have disappeared. The The old drove road from Trowbridge (Middle or Back Farm, on the south side of the A361, creation of ponds without fish can Lane) enters the old village at The Knap, and from this are distinctly different to elsewhere in provide a safe place for frogs and point there are sweeping views across the Hilperton Gap the parish, being very broad and newts. A bramble or nettle patch is towards Bradford on Avon. thick, and very good for wildlife. an ideal feature to attract butterflies and birds. By this method one garden in the village recorded 22 species of butterfly and 148 species of moths 5. THE OLD VILLAGE during the year 2000. This area includes the Conservation Area; which covers Most pastureland in the Parish is the whole of Church Street and parts of Hill Street, semi-improved or improved and is Whaddon Lane, Trowbridge Road and Ashton Road. It either grazed by stock or used to contains much of the historic part of Hilperton and any produce winter fodder. Grasslands changes are required to preserve or enhance the character that have not been managed in this and appearance of the conservation area. Buildings within way for early silage production and the conservation area should be used for future house have not been intensely fertilised or building treated with herbicides have the most style and interesting flora. Two of these fields design. are located in the Gap area. Another At this end one, adjacent to the Canal, was of Hill designated as being of interest, an n Street the ‘Amber Site’, by British Waterways. Gap fields north of St. Michael’s road starts Unfortunately, despite this, spoil from to rise and the canal was dumped on the field. roundabout the road makes a straight n on both approach to Turnpike House. There is Recommendations: n View south towards Lower Paxcroft The Countryside Stewardship Scheme a hedgerow on the left bounding the sides are Dymott Square before renovation actively encourages low intensity • The natural beauty of the landscape including flora, detached Unfortunately, some field hedgerows Hilperton Gap and an attractive row fauna features should be respected and where farming. Under this scheme, cottages with small front gardens set behind old stone in open farmland have become rather of beech and lime trees on the right, appropriate enhanced and protected. Whaddon Farm is currently recreating boundary walls giving a more confined look than in sparse in depth and height. Modern giving characteristic open rural views wildflower meadows, regenerating Hilperton Marsh. The pavement is on one side only for methods of farm management are not from the village. The pavement is on • New development in open countryside should hedgerows, and positively managing much of the length of Hill Street but green verges on the always compatible with management one side only but both sides of the be avoided. farm ponds and marshland for corners of Greenhill Gardens and Dymott Square soften for wildlife, where to leave the road have grassy verges giving a wildlife. Other farms have installed • New developments on the edge of the village should the scene. Dymott Square, a cul-de-sac leading from Hill autumn cut until after berries have distinctly rural look. St Michael’s nest boxes for barn owls, created give high priority to landscape design. Street, has terraced cottages re-constructed in Bath stone been consumed would be desirable. church is a very attractive view across ponds and replanted trees and shrubs and modern red brick detached houses, built in 1984. The The A361 also acts as a obstacle for the Gap from here. to enhance the landscape. Grants to • Green verges, hedgerows and spaces are design and layout used a sympathetic approach to the site wildlife crossing from the relatively characteristic of the entry to Hilperton and should provide incentives for improving open Other particularly interesting and its former buildings, which was the farmyard of sheltered routes of the byway 22 from be included in new development. spaces, hedgerows and farmland for landmark features not already Manor Farm and derelict weavers’ cottages. wildlife are available through the mentioned include Turnpike House • All public rights of way should be respected and Other fine larger houses in Hill Street are Oriel House and local authorities and Community First and Navy Cottage in Church Street. maintained through liaison with landowners Little Ashton. Kemps Leaze Barn, originally farm with advice from the Wiltshire The Grange is a feature on entering and farmers. buildings, was converted for housing in 1988 using Wildlife Trust and the Farming and the old village from Paxcroft Mead. reclaimed materials and brick, with further work in 1999. Wildlife Advisory Group. Also notable are the walnut tree at • Existing hedgerows should be retained and The Baptist Chapel of 1806 has been converted into flats. the back of the Lion and Fiddle and enhanced to maintain the character of the village. From Trowbridge along Hilperton Between this and Whaddon Lane there is a terrace of brick the beech tree in Woodcote nearby. Road, there is a very attractive tree • Advice and grants for improving open spaces are houses, with stained glass above their doors and wrought lined approach flanked by large From Trowbridge Road. the old available from The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, Local ironwork on the sills of one. Old cottages, 1970s houses, Victorian villas set well back from the village is still surrounded by green Authorities, Community First and the Farming and and bungalows line the start of Whaddon Lane. They are n road. The mature trees are the most verges, hedgerows, trees and fields Wildlife Advisory Group. a mix of styles but mostly finished in Bath stone. Broad hedgerows at Paxcroft attractive feature. From Fieldways which separate it from Paxcroft Mead

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From the top of the hill, Church during the rebuilding. It has a three- looks very confined by high boundary The houses at this end of Devizes Street runs from the junction with stage tower with clock faces to the stone walls, has narrow pavements Road are a mixture of old cottages, Whaddon Lane round a sharp corner South and East, topped with an and its appearance is marred by Georgian houses, and substantial 20th at The Knap until meeting Devizes octagonal “broach” spire. Five of the prominent overhead wires and poles. century houses, all with contrasting and Trowbridge Roads. The part monuments in the churchyard have Some walls are crumbling away due architectural styles but finished in beyond The Knap was at one time been listed. Hilperton House is a fine to constant erosion, pollution or matching stone. Unfortunately a called High Street and contains some example of an early eighteenth neglect. There is an obvious conflict traffic calming scheme on Devizes of the oldest buildings in the village century house with its ashlar between appearance and the need for road has used speed tables with a many of which are listed buildings. Georgian façade with a late car parking as some garden walls brick finish, which is out of keeping The ages of the properties range from eighteenth century extension and a have been demolished to make room with this end of Devizes road, the seventeenth century to the 1960s. large conservatory. Set in a large for off road parking. although satisfactory at the eastern Between Hill Street and The Knap the garden, it has a high stone boundary end where the surrounding houses are Other significant architectural mainly terraced houses are close up to wall running along a large part of themselves brick. Some fine features include dormer windows; the street, looking out on to it either Church Street and The Knap. On the restoration work has been done on stone carved porches; stone mullions directly or over small front gardens. road side of the wall, set into a niche, 123 Devizes Road, which is about windows to the cottages and old A feature of the Street is that all the is an old water pump and plaque 300 years old. It was originally two stone front walls, including the high houses are constructed in stone, either referring to Hilperton’s entry in the houses and was part of The Grange walls to Hilperton House. The only dressed Bath Stone or undressed or Domesday Book. estate. Foundations for two other visible red brick is two old front n rubble; some are painted render or cottages were found in the back pebbledash under brown clay or slate Opposite The Knap is the War walls. Over the years, the Street has The Blind House period, rather than typical of the bakery that was open until 1990 and garden. An adjoining garage had roofs, but there is no red brick visible Memorial and Blind House or village seen many changes, with houses being village, but some effort has been was converted to a private dwelling in many previous commercial uses from the road, although there is some lock-up. The latter, constructed in pulled down and rebuilt with similar made to use matching materials, such 1996 Opposite the post office is including parking a lorry and storing use of it to the rear of some cottages. limestone ashlar forming an buildings; or renovations to existing as Bath stone, and because of their Nursery Close, an access road to a coffins. When it collapsed in 1998, it The house at the corner of The Knap, octagonal shape with a domed roof buildings. A number of access roads position they have little overall cottage and houses built in 1980s. On was rebuilt and converted into a number 100, was a toll house when topped with a ball finial, is a typical have been built off Church Street to impact on the appearance of the its corner no.109, formerly a garden separate dwelling using much of the Middle Lane – now a bridleway – was example of the many found provide access to more modern village. The result of all this building nursery and a nursing home, was old materials from the site. a route to Trowbridge. Its bowed throughout the region. housing at the rear. These houses are and rebuilding is a wide difference in built in the Victorian Gothic style. It Honeysuckle Cottage, 126 Devizes southern wall certainly allows views Beyond The Knap, Church Street generally in styles typical of their the ages, sizes, construction, and style is unusual in that it was built back to Road, is one of a terrace of three in both directions. Extension work in of the houses and cottages. But its front! The side facing the road is houses built in the mid to late 1700s the 1980s was not very lack of uniformity, with really the back with the front of rubble stone and covered with entirely sympathetic. variations of coloured renderings and entrance at the rear. One of the oldest plain rendering with stone quoins and The Knap is the old textures, contributes to its appeal. houses in the parish is number 209, Bath stone surrounds and mullions to centre of the village, which dates back to the late fifteenth the windows. It was part of the estate The property next to the Blind House flanked by Hilperton century and was thought to be the of The Grange but was sold at public is Church Farm, a foursquare House, the church, the manor house of the area at the time. auction along with 127 and 128 old school and building with stone mullions and Devizes Road in 1956. Along the schoolhouse. There are “eyebrows” to the windows. This Church Street terminates in a north side of Devizes Road leading good views across the was in agricultural use until the T-junction with Devizes Road and out of the village there is a ribbon open fields of the 1980s and the farm yard area still Trowbridge Road by the Lion and development of large post war Hilperton Gap here, to contains interesting old buildings that Fiddle public house. Here the street detached houses in a variety of styles, Hilperton Marsh, are not visible from the road. Set in scene is dominated by a mini- mainly in red brick. Staverton and Holt to the wall of the farm is an old spring roundabout with raised concrete the North and water supply, hidden beneath a kerbs and pedestrian barriers Trowbridge to the West. seemingly insignificant metal cover. producing a Granite setts are still in Near this is Iris Cottage, number 226, visual effect place along the length built by Mr Matthews, a local quite out of of The Knap adjacent builder, in the Victorian Gothic style keeping with its to Hilperton House. popular from1860 to 1890. It was at village location. The original fifteenth first a house for the butler to However outside century church of St Fieldways House, now an hotel, just the old Toll Michael and All Angels outside the parish boundary. A row House opposite was rebuilt between of old cottages between this and the the Lion and 1847 and 1852 by T H Post Office were demolished and Fiddle public Wyatt in the fourteenth rebuilt in 1939. The post office was house granite century style. However originally built in approximately setts remain in the tower, south porch 1768. At least three stages of the place from an and nave floor date building are evident and about 100 earlier time. back to Norman times years ago it was divided into two n n and were retained properties. Further along was a Lion and Fiddle/Turnpike House Architectural features in the old village 14 Hilperton Village Design Statement Hilperton Village Design Statement 15

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Near the Lion and Fiddle is Ashton Road, which leads to • Sympathetic renovation at Hilperton House, using 6. HILPERTON MARSH have features in common with those in Hilperton Village, but is now closed to motor traffic where it matching materials. including stone and rubble construction with clay tiles, enters Paxcroft Mead. Modern 20th century housing, with some stone mullions to windows, porches, and • Development at Dymott Square retaining the facades of Although there are individual buildings from many eras, a cul-de-sac of stone bungalows, are built along its length. occasionally dormer windows. Also located in Horse Road original buildings and including green verges. This was going as far back as the 17th century, most of the In 2001, a new build of three houses was built of stone to a is the church of St. Mary Magdalen, built in 1889 by local formerly an area of dereliction, but brought back to life buildings and side roads in Hilperton Marsh date from the high specification, in keeping with older village properties, people. The chancel was completed in flint but there was a by some imaginative restoration of the terraced cottages post war period. The buildings have a decidedly suburban with porches, gable windows, and stone mullion windows. shortage of money to finish it, so a ‘flat pack’ nave made and a barn conversion. look but the area is given a rural feel by extensive views Westerly from the Lion and Fiddle, is Trowbridge Road. over the surrounding open fields, particularly from first of corrugated iron was purchased from Harrods of There are modern and older houses of different styles built • Conversion of the old Methodist Chapel into two houses, floor windows, by the spacious layout of roads and Knightsbridge. The church is affectionately known locally of stone except for one modern dwelling, which is of red retaining original material and restoring the original gardens, and by the numerous examples of mature trees in as the ‘tin church’. As well as for worship, it is used by brick. Willow Cottage, 117, and its neighbour were built in boundary walls and railings. gardens and public spaces throughout the area. Views are many other community organisations. 1600 of stone rubble and with small stone mullion • The old bakery was converted from commercial use to enhanced by the complete absence of tall buildings. Landmark buildings also tend to date back to earlier windows. It was thought to have been an inn and a smithy housing whilst retaining its original external appearance. Houses are predominantly two storey semi-detached or periods, with their materials and architecture in contrast before being converted to two houses. Many of the original bungalows. Even the non-residential buildings are low to the suburban houses that have grown up around them. features inside the house remain. Recommendations/Reason for buildings set in spacious grounds, such as St Mary recommendations Magdalene’s church, which has no tower. The roof line invariably comprises pitched roofs, mostly with gable Notable landmarks include: There are some recent examples of good • New development should be finished in a manner development practices in this area: ends. The two-storey houses have roofs unbroken by which complements the visual character of the locality, dormer windows, but at a lesser height quite a few • Three new cottages in Ashton Road including natural where stone is the predominant material. / To bungalows have dormer extensions. stone boundary walls. Built to a high specification, these maintain the visual character of the area. houses are admired throughout the village as being in Construction materials for houses are in general either keeping with those architectural features that are • New development should be of a style and scale which stone/cement block or brick, with rendering mostly limited frequently seen: stone built, with porches, gable windows is sympathetic to surrounding buildings. / To maintain to older houses dating back before the 20th century. The and mullions to the windows. The three front elevations the visual character of the area. various materials are used in distinct areas, corresponding are different enough to give each house individual • Rendered finishes should only be applied to buildings with the dates of construction. Along Horse Road character. where rendering is already present to repair or buildings are predominantly of Bath stone or reconstituted stone blocks with clay tiled roofs in brown or red shades. • Sympathetic renovation work at 123 Devizes Road. The maintain continuity with an existing finish. / To To the south of Horse Road, Marshmead, Newleaze and reconstruction used stone from a collapsed garage wall, maintain the visual character of the area. Hill Street as far as the bottom of the hill echo this pattern recovered pantiles for the roof and reclaimed timbers. • The removal of gardens at the front of houses in order in reconstituted stone or cement block with similar roofs. to provide off street car parking should be Approaching the bottom of the hill, red brick houses, still discouraged: off street parking should be behind with brown tiled roofs, appear in Hill Street and continue n St Marys Church houses and not obvious from the road. / To maintain towards the old village until the point where the road the visual character of the area. starts to rise, where there is a sharp transition to a more • St Mary Magdalene’s Church – locally known as the hemmed-in appearance with materials characteristic of the • New roads and pavements should retain existing “tin church” for its largely pre-fabricated corrugated old village. To the north of Horse Road the post-war historic features and use traditional materials such as iron construction. estate is comprised of brick built houses, again with stone. /To retain and enhance the historic appearance brown or red clay tiled roofs. Yellow shades of brick of the village. predominate near to Horse Road but giving way to red • Developments should be bounded by natural stone brick towards the Marsh Road end. To the north end of walls / To retain and enhance the historic appearance Wyke Road, houses are again stone or reconstituted stone n of the village. block, but the new estates to the west of Wyke Road are Renovated cottage, Devizes Road of yellow and red brick in the post 1970s style. • Cables should be buried in new developments and existing ones buried when the opportunity to do so Although developed to its current extent in the 20th arises. / The appearance of Church Street is marred by Century, some of the buildings along the roads in this area overhead cables and posts. are of an earlier date, notably four listed houses in Horse Road. These are Weavers Croft, built of Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and stone slate roof probably in the mid 18th century, which was extended in the 20th century. Pound Farmhouse, built in the 17th century altered mid 19th century, of painted rubble stone, with a Bridgwater tiled roof and brick stacks. 3 Horse Road is a n detached cottage built in the late 17th century of render The Poplars and a Bridgwater tiled roof with brick stacks. The 16th • The Poplars on Wyke Road, a large three storey house century Thatched Cottage sited in a lane off Horse Road in ashlar stone with a stable block and workshop, dates is the only thatched building in Hilperton. Formerly two back 200 years and can be glimpsed through two cottages, it is now one, with a part timber frame with imposing stone gateposts. brick noggin, part limestone rubble. These older homes Dymott Square Ashton Road The Old Bakery

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• A row of mature chestnut trees running west from Wyke Road Recommendations/Reason for recommendation: marks the site of the drive to Wyke • New development should be gabled ends./To protect the to thrive. House. The house has been constructed of complementary characteristic roof line of the area. • New buildings should conform demolished and replaced by new materials and in a scale • The addition of dormer windows housing development, but the appropriate to the surrounding with existing building lines and be to two storey houses (as part of drive remains as a footpath buildings./ To maintain the visual fronted by low walled or open loft conversions, for instance) providing a characteristic entry to character of the locality. gardens. Off-street parking at the the area that has the potential to should be discouraged./ To protect front of houses is accepted, where • Rendered finishes to buildings be an attractive feature. the characteristic roof line and there is also provision of a front should not be used except to views of open fields over rooftops. garden, as part of the character of • The “Ring o’ Bells” on Marsh maintain continuity when Road, once one of three public rendered buildings are repaired or • The design of industrial buildings the area./ To maintain the open houses in Hilperton Marsh, but improved./ To maintain the visual should incorporate the traditional and spacious appearance now a guest house, is well known character of the area as a whole. rural characteristics of the area, characteristic of the area. in the locality. especially concerning height and • New buildings or extensions materials. The renovation of • Roads should have pavements • The large willow tree on the green should not be higher than existing existing structures is preferred. and, where space allows, grass in Marshmead. buildings or two storeys where it Where uncharacteristic design verges./ To maintain the open and Roads in this area present a wide and would adversely impact on views features are unavoidable they spacious appearance characteristic open aspect with buildings set back, of the open countryside./ To should be masked by tree or of the area leaving room for off-street car preserve views of the landscape hedgerow planting with native • Mature trees and hedgerows parking at the front. Street lighting is n setting and character of the species./To provide a visually The Green and willow, Marshmead village. should be retained./ To maintain universal. Pavements are on both acceptable solution where a rural character. sides of the roads and in the hedgerows beyond. As Hill Street The southern side of Horse Road is • New buildings or extensions functionally designed building Marshmead/Newleaze area neat approaches the old village the something of an exception to this tidy should have pitched roofs with is required for local business grassed verges are incorporated. footpaths incorporate well layout, with several unsurfaced lanes However, the east side of Marsh maintained grass verges, which add to serving a jumbled array of houses Road and Hill Street has no pavement the rural feel. Throughout the area from earlier eras; however the for most of its length, but a rough the sense of space is enhanced by spacious arrangement and views grass verge enhances the visual “open plan” front gardens with only are maintained. transition to open fields and low walls and hedges or none at all.

n n A quiet spot,Whaddon Kylie Parfit Interesting buildings and views in Hilperton Marsh

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7. STATEMENT OF CONSULTATION Maps 10. GLOSSARY AA motorists’ atlas of Britain. Hilperton Parish Council organised a public meeting on 17 May 2000 to introduce the idea of a Village Design Statement and at a second Ashlar: smooth stone masonry with straight joints. public meeting on 19 September 2000, attended by 20 people, the Hilperton Village Design Statement group was formed, volunteers to Explorer maps. Brick Nogging: bricks used to infill the panels in a take on the work came forward and the area to be covered was agreed. Over subsequent months the members of the Hilperton Village Definitive map from rights of way dept WCC. timber frame. Design Statement group carried out a survey of the area and its history in order to identify the key features and recommendations. Bridgewater tiled roof: a particular style of tiled roof. Statement to accompany the definitive map as depicted on Dormer Window: small window projecting from a sloping O.S. sheets ST86 NW, ST85NE, ST8658-8758. roof to let light into attic bedrooms. Their findings were brought together at a series of three public exhibitions, which packed St Marys Church Hall, Hilperton Village Hall Dressed Stone: well worked stone. and Paxcroft Mead Community Centre on 20, 21 and 28 April 2002 respectively. Visitors were asked to complete a questionnaire to Façade: the front face of a building. ascertain their views and 105 were returned. Advice was also sought from rural organisations such as the Countryside Agency. This Developers Flemish Bond Brick: a particular design of brickwork. feedback was incorporated into the information and recommendations of the Village Design Statement. Advice was also obtained from J.J. Gallagher Ltd (0121 7666789) Finial: an ornament that is the final feature of a structure Planning Officers of the West Wiltshire District Council. The Parish Council were very supportive but did not wish to influence the i.e. on the top of the roof. contents of the Village Design Statement. Gable: the triangular end of the roof. 9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Granite Setts: granite curbstones Draft copies of the Village Design Statement were displayed during June 2004 at the post offices, community centres, pubs and schools in Mullion Windows: vertical uprights in a window. Hilperton, in Trowbridge public library and at the Village Fete on 12 June 2004. A letter to the Wiltshire Times and an article in the The Hilperton Village Design Statement could not have Pebble dash: pebbles set into cement render. parish magazine ensured that this last opportunity to comment was widely publicised and 25 comments were received, nearly all in come into being without the work of all those in the Quoins: well dressed stone or bricks at the corners agreement with the content. Copies were also submitted to the Parish Council and District Planning Officers for comment and advice. Design Statement Group, the financial support of of buildings. Render: plaster covering of external walls. After consideration of these final comments the village design statement was submitted to West Wiltshire District Council at the end of Hilperton Parish Council, technical advice from Rubble: type of masonry sometimes appearing rough and 2004 for adoption as Supplementary Planning Guidance. professionals in various organisations, particularly the random but can be well dressed. officers of West Wiltshire District Council and the 8. WHO TO CONTACT ABOUT Other organisations information and views so willingly provided by many VILLAGE ISSUES The Countryside Agency – essential information including: residents of the parish. Our thanks to all those individuals “New rights new responsibilities”. The following information is correct at time of writing. “Out in the country. Where you can go and what you can who have contributed their time and expertise to this statement. Hilperton Parish Council do”. Mrs M Timms (Clerk) “Quiet roads: taming country lanes”. Maplewood, 15a Church Street. “Horses in the countryside”. Steeple Ashton “Waymarking”. Trowbridge www.countryside.gov.uk Wilts, BA14 6EW Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Tel: 01225 852518 The government department concerned with local planning issues. The web site contains a good deal of general Local Councillors information about how the planning system works. www.odpm.gov.uk Mr E Clark (01225 769940) West Wiltshire District Council and Chairman of Hilperton Wiltshire Wildlife Trust (01380 725670) Parish Council Elm Tree Court, Long Street, Devizes, Wilts [email protected] English Nature (01380 726344) Mr T Carbin (01225 762032) Prince Maurice Court, Hambledon Ave, Devizes, Wilts West Wiltshire District Council and Wiltshire County Council Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (01225 777839) Long Acre House, Frome Road, Trowbridge, Wilts Council offices and departments The Wiltshire Times West Wiltshire District Council (01225 776655) Duke Street, Trowbridge. www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk Bradley Road, Trowbridge. Institute of Public Rights of Way Officers Local Plan “Public rights of way. The good practice guide” 2000 – The www.west-wiltshire-dc.gov.uk/planning/districtplan.htm “bible” for procedures relating to implementing public rights of way legislation. Wiltshire County Council (01225 713000) Bythesea Road, Trowbridge. Campaign for the Protection of Rural England West Wilts Group (01225 768705) Structure plan, highway and school issues: www.wiltshire.gov.uk/planning Surveys Clarence (0800 232323) WCC survey October 2000 to ascertain vehicle movements Highways freephone through Hilperton particularly heavy goods vehicles. Trowbridge library and records office (01225 761171) “Gap” road referendum results published by Mr. Trevor Large multimedia stock including books, leaflets, maps on Carbin (district and county councillor for Hilperton where to walk, local points of interest. 1838 tithe map and Staverton). www.wiltshire.gov.uk Hilperton VDS questionnaire results. n We will remember them William Gredington

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n The park Vera Carbin

n Broombridge on the Kennet and Avon Canal

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