Heywood, Wiltshire

Heywood
Church Road, Heywood
Heywood
Location within Wiltshire
Population798 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST873536
Civil parish
  • Heywood
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWestbury
Postcode districtBA13
Dialling code01373
PoliceWiltshire
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
WebsiteParish Council

Heywood is a civil parish and small village in the county of Wiltshire in southwestern England. The village is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Westbury and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of the county town of Trowbridge.

Heywood village, which has approximately 200 inhabitants, lies between the A350 national route and the B3461 road, which links nearby Yarnbrook and the Westbury industrial area. The hamlet of Dursley lies directly to the west of the village on the other side of the railway line. The parish also includes the hamlets of Hawkeridge and Norleaze; in the south are the West Wilts Trading Estate and part of The Ham, close to Westbury.

The Biss Brook forms the west and north-west boundary of the parish.

History

For most of its history, Heywood formed part of the parish and hundred of Westbury. From the 13th century the manor of Heywood was an estate of Stanley Abbey. It was acquired by Sir Edward Bayntun in 1537; later landowners included the Long family and the Earls of Marlborough.[2]

In 1848 the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was built through the parish, passing between Heywood and Dursley, to link the Swindon-Bath line (near Chippenham) with Westbury via Trowbridge. This line remains open.

The civil parish of Heywood was created in 1896 from the northern section of Westbury parish; part of Heywood was transferred back to Westbury in 1909.[3][4]

Brook Hall

Main article: Brook Hall

Brook Hall, in the west of Heywood parish near the Biss Brook, is a c. 1600 farmhouse which incorporates a Grade I listed wing of a 15th-century manor house.[5]

Heywood House

Main article: Heywood House

Heywood House is a country house on the other side of the A350 from the village. It was built in 1839 in Jacobean style for H. G. G. Ludlow; his descendants included Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow (1828–1899), a Lord Justice of Appeal and member of Parliament. In 2015 the Grade II* listed house was divided into offices.[6]

Governance

From 1935 until 1974, Heywood was part of the Warminster and Westbury Rural District, which was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, when it joined the new West Wiltshire district.[7] Since the abolition of West Wiltshire as a district in 2009, all significant local government functions have been carried out by the new Wiltshire Council unitary authority.

Heywood falls within the South West Wiltshire parliamentary constituency, which has been represented since 2001 by Andrew Murrison (Conservative).

Religious sites

A small Congregational church was built at Hawkeridge in 1844.[8] As of 2015 the church remains in use.[9]

The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1849 and served a new ecclesiastical parish which was formed from the northern part of the parish of Westbury.[10][11] The building is in the 13th-century style; Pevsner describes the east window of 1876 as "especially horrible".[12] The church closed in 1981[13] and was converted for residential use.

Amenities

There is a pub at Hawkeridge, the Royal Oak.

The village primary school was closed in 1971.[14] It had been built in 1836 at the expense of Henry G.G. Ludlow of Heywood House and educated children of all ages until 1930.[15]

The Eaves Learning Centre, just over the north boundary of the parish near Dursley, is a small independent school for children with special needs aged 8 to 19, run by Witherslack Group.[16][17]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Wiltshire Community History – Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ^ Historic England. "Heywood House, Heywood Park (1284971)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Heywood". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 8 pp 139–148 – Westbury: Introduction". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Early Wing at Brook Hall (1285019)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  6. ^ Yilmaz, Tanya (10 May 2015). "Businesses encouraged to relocate to Heywood House". Wiltshire Times. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  7. ^ unit history of WARMINSTER AND WESTBURY at visionofbritain.org.uk, accessed 26 March 2012
  8. ^ "Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 8 pp181-185 – Westbury: Protestant nonconformity". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Hawkeridge". The Congregational Federation. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  10. ^ "Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 8 pp176-181 – Westbury: Churches". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  11. ^ "No. 20996". The London Gazette. 6 July 1849. pp. 2156–2157.
  12. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975) [1963]. Wiltshire. The Buildings of England (2nd ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 268. ISBN 0-14-0710-26-4.
  13. ^ "Holy Trinity Church, Heywood". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  14. ^ "Heywood Voluntary Controlled School". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  15. ^ "Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 8 pp188-191 – Westbury: Schools". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  16. ^ "The Eaves Learning Centre". GOV.UK: Schools. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  17. ^ "The Eaves". Witherslack Group. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  18. ^ D. W. Hayton, "PHIPPS, Thomas (?1648-1715), of Clerkenwell, Mdx. and Heywood Place, nr. Westbury, Wilts." History of Parliament Online, accessed 16 September 2022
  19. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference VCH was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  20. ^ London Gazette dated 9 December 2004, Notice: 1001 (Issue: 57490): "The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 10 November 2004 to appoint John Barnard Bush, Esquire, OBE, to be Lord-Lieutenant of and in the County of Wiltshire."

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