Kingsdown,_Box

Kingsdown, Box

Kingsdown, Box

Human settlement in England

Kingsdown is a hamlet in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of Box village and 1.2 miles (1.9 km) east of Bathford, across the county border in Somerset.

Kingsdown House

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At the top of Doctor's Hill, Kingsdown House is a three-storey ashlar house from the early 18th century; its formal front with parapet and corner urns was embellished in the 19th century with a Corinthian porch and a roof-height clock.[1] There was a private asylum here from the 17th century to the mid-20th,[2] latterly called Kingsdown Nursing Home.[3] The house and its adjacent 19th-century buildings are now in residential use.[4][5]

A Methodist chapel was built in 1869 and rebuilt in 1926. By 2003 it was a private house.[6]

There is a pub, the Swan Inn. Kingsdown Golf Course is on higher ground to the east of the hamlet.

References

  1. [1]
    Historic England. "Nos 1 and 2 Kingsdown House (1181591)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. [2]
    Orbach, Julian; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (2021). Wiltshire. The Buildings Of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-300-25120-3. OCLC 1201298091.
  3. [3]
    "Inside Box Mad House". Box People and Places. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  4. [4]
    Historic England. "No 3 Kingsdown House (1022797)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  5. [5]
    Historic England. "No 7 Kingsdown House (1181608)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  6. [6]
    "Methodist Chapel, Kingsdown, Box". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 28 October 2015.

Media related to Kingsdown, Box at Wikimedia Commons

  • "Box". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  • The Swan Inn – Box People and Places, 2018


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