Downton, Wiltshire - village, war memorial - local postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Downton, Wiltshire -shows village, war memorial etc. - photo by R. Holman
• Publisher:  Wiltshire Federation of Womens Institutes
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Downton is a village and civil parish on the River Avon in Wiltshire, England. It is about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Salisbury and close to the New Forest. The parish includes the hamlet of Charlton-All-Saints and the small ancient settlements of Witherington and Standlynch.

Downton can trace its ancient origin back to the Iron Age, Roman and Saxon time. In 1953 the site of a Roman villa was discovered at Downton.^[2] Excavations, in advance of housing development, revealed a villa with tessellated floors, at least two featuring mosaics, a hypocaust and bath house.^[2] The villa is no longer visible, but the finds, including one of the mosaics, are in Salisbury Museum.^[2] There are also remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle. It now is the location of the Moot Garden, an 18th-century ornamental garden overlooking the river. It contains an ancient monument known as the Moot, which commemorates the meeting place of Wiltshire Saxons. It is one of the oldest of English moots or local parliaments, a legacy left over from the time of the Bishop of Winchester's owning lands of Downton.

Manor House in Downton is probably the longest-inhabited house in the South of England, used as a religious house from its construction around 850 until the Reformation.

King John is said to have had a palace in Downton on one of the islands by the Moot. When the palace was taken down, it was believed the stone was used in the construction called New Court House.

From 1295 to 1832, Downton was a parliamentary borough, giving eligible residents the right to elect two MPs to Parliament. Notable MPs include Blessed John Story, an English Roman Catholic martyr later beatified by Pope Leo XIII; Sir Carew Raleigh, elder brother of Sir Walter Raleigh; Robert 'Bonnie Bobby Shafto', the subject of a popular folk song; and the poet Robert Southey, who was elected without his knowledge and declined to take his seat.

In 1836, a time of continued agricultural hardship, the parish sponsored an emigration of over 200 of its poor people to Upper Canada; they sailed in April 1836 on the ship King William. ^[3]

For about a decade from around 1961 Downton had an important part to play in British motorsport via the Downton Engineering Works.^[4]

In 1999 a community project, The Downton Millennial Book Fund, published an illustrated history of the village.^[5]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=wiltshire

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period=1945 - present

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