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On a Swmmer't doy in 1643 a Royalist army came from Oxford to help theS,aftlefiel their comrades who were bottled up in Devizes by an army of Parliamentarians. The Parliamentarians left the siege and came here to 'rRoundwal, Roundway Down to meet the ..**r,...,.,** enemy. w .hv A great cavalry Pii , rt battle ensued but despite having the best equipped cavalry regiment in the country and artillery and infantry support, the Parliamentarians were beaten by the Royalists.The Parliamentary cavalry ran I away and some of them - i desperate to escape the { _ pursuing Royalists fled over the ridge either side of Oliver's Castle. Here, because of their extreme haste and the difficult nature ffi*rfl,;3ll*:"rFund of the descent, many of them tumbled to their Produced in dssociation ruitb 1i:i deaths giving the ffi\&, ,rr{mrHil name "Bloody Ditch" to Battlefields Trust Kennet District the gully beyond Oliver's Castle. Council \M t; ru Vwrfrrp There are two other leaflets on the N".nJ.liiIIi ru., Wiltshire County battle as well as panels on the site. Council TheWiltshire Heritage Museum in mffi wirsxrnr,"leS,rrac; ffi dromotic history Long Street, Devizes also has much Devizes Develooment Wiltshire Heritage Partnershii Museum primary source material. The Great CivilMhr Battle at Devizes *rli R*wwCraay Hitt The undulating chalk landscape of the Roundway battlefield changes as it extends from Roundway Hill towards the wooded Hill Covert, Olivers Castle (205m) and Beacon Hill. At the western edge, the landscape is dramatic and is dominated by the indented escarpment which falls steeply by some l30m to the flatter fields below..

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Notes from a Preceptor’s Handbook A Preceptor: (OED) 1440 A.D. from Latin praeceptor one who instructs, a teacher, a tutor, a mentor “A horse, a horse and they are all white” Provincial Grand Lodge of Wiltshire Provincial W Bro Michael Lee PAGDC 2017 The White Horses of Wessex Editors note: Whilst not a Masonic topic, I fell Michael Lee’s original work on the mysterious and mystical White Horses of Wiltshire (and the surrounding area) warranted publication, and rightly deserved its place in the Preceptors Handbook. I trust, after reading this short piece, you will wholeheartedly agree. Origins It seems a perfectly fair question to ask just why the Wiltshire Provincial Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter decided to select a white horse rather than say the bustard or cathedral spire or even Stonehenge as the most suitable symbol for the Wiltshire Provincial banner. Most continents, most societies can provide examples of the strange, the mysterious, that have teased and perplexed countless generations. One might include, for example, stone circles, ancient dolmens and burial chambers, ley lines, flying saucers and - today - crop circles. There is however one small area of the world that has been (and continues to be) a natural focal point for all of these examples on an almost extravagant scale. This is the region in the south west of the British Isles known as Wessex. To our list of curiosities we can add yet one more category dating from Neolithic times: those large and mysterious figures dominating our hillsides, carved in the chalk and often stretching in length or height to several hundred feet.
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Figure 3.4: Heritage Assets Legendlisted Building
50 50 19 19 24 24 27 44 37 22 27 44 37 22 50 81 19 24 81 27 44 37 22 81 LEGEND New residential Site boundary development Scheduled monument Listed building LEGEND ListedNew residential building Site boundary 50 clusterdevelopment Scheduled Conservation area monument Figure 3.4: Heritage assets LEGENDListed building 50 Listed building New residential Sitecluster boundary development Land off Quakers ConservationRoad, Devizes: designarea and access statement 23 NODE urban design Creating a sense of place Scheduled monument Listed building Listed building 50 cluster Conservation area 3 Quakers Road, Devizes Appreciating the context Landscape The site is located on the edge of an urban settlement. As a result, the landscape context includes residential development, agricultural land, woodlands and main vehicular routes. To the south of the site boundary is an area of undeveloped land, beyond which are located allotments with an area of minimum change located to the west of the site (Kennet Local Plan Policy HH10). The Kennet and Avon Canal passes to the south of the allotments which Photo m: residential development abut the southern edge of the site. Topography The topography of the site is relatively flat with a slight drop in levels towards Quakers Walk. Devizes generally has a topography which slopes from west to east across the town, rising up towards Devizes Castle and onto Etchilhampton Hill at 190m. To the north of the site, the topography rises up to 224m at Roundway Hill. Photo n: allotment Photo o: Kennet and Avon Canal Land off
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ROUNDWAY PARISH COUNCIL Clerk - Stan Johnston
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Chairman: John Kirkman, Witcha Cottage, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 2HQ Wiltshire Branch Phone: 01672 520429; e-mail: [email protected] Kennet District Group E/2011/1139/OUT Care Village on greenfield land alongside Quakers Walk We strongly support the objections expressed by Devizes Town Council and Roundway Parish Council to the development of a care village on the remaining field to the east of of Quakers Walk, south of the new housing development and north of the allotments. Sustainability The proposed built development would bring to the north-east corner of Devizes an unsustainable extra burden of resident population. Though the residents in the 80-bed care home would probably not be mobile, the 129+ residents in the apartments and cottages would generate movements themselves, and visitors to the whole new community would generate increased traffic. That would predictably worsen the congestion on London Road and the main through-routes, and increase the already illegal pollution levels around the town.. The development would cover for ever an area of agricultural land which, together with the adjoining much-valued Quakers Walk, should preferably be protected as a Special Green Space for Devizes, in accordance with the forthcoming NPPF guidelines, para.130. Relevant Plans and the Status of the Land In the first sentence of Part 1 and elsewhere (eg Pt 2 para.. 2.2) The Design and Access Statement describes the application site as a “development site”. Use of that expression is misleading. Following the Inspector’s decisions on the draft Kennet Local Plan (see his Report para. 2.236 and 2.244c) the application site is “unallocated land”.
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