Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire, England (United Kingdom), Europe

Longbridge Deverill (also listed as Deverill Longbridge) is a village and a civil parish in the Deverill valley which carries the upper waters of the River Wylye The parish includes Crockerton and the hamlets of Crockerton Green, Fox Holes and Hill Deverill; these settlements are collectively known as the Lower Deverills (the Upper Deverills being the upstream villages of Brixton Deverill, Monkton Deverill and Kingston Deverill) The River Wylye runs through all three villages; it is located 19 miles from the Roman city of Bath and twenty miles from the medieval city of Salisbury Evidence of Neolithic settlement includes a henge near Long Ivor Farm in the northeast of the parish; a Bronze Age bell barrow also stands on a slope of Rook Hill in the southeast. Iron Age settlements include a site on high ground at Cow Down in the east of the parish, where there are foundations of a large circular hut. Two Roman roads crossed at Kingston Deverill; a short length of a north-south road, probably a section of the route from Bath to Poole, survives on Brimsdown Hill and became part of the boundary with Maiden Bradley parish Land at Longbridge and Crockerton belonged to Glastonbury Abbey from the 10th century. Two estates were recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book at Devrel, with altogether 24 households. The manor house at Hill Deverill dates from the 16th century and is Grade II listed. The medieval village of Hill Deverill was to the west of the manor house. A hollow way, field boundaries and house platforms survive In 1655, Sir James Thynne provided a terrace of three two-storey almshouses southeast of the Longbridge Deverill church, built in rubble stone with slate roofs. A wooden clock face projects from the gable facing the main road. In the 19th century a shortage of employment led to emigration to America, Canada or Australia; 181 people left from Longbridge. Pottery was made at Crockerton from locally-dug clay, until the industry declined in the 19th century. Crockerton also had a cloth mill, later a silk mill, which closed in 1894 see attached sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbridge_Deverill https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom2.php?id=143