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website, use the navigation panel to the left of
this page. It is a sort of index, so, for
example, if you click on:
"Community
News" it will take you to Maggie Dyson's weekly,
village news column
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On" will take you to the diary for the current
month. You can then navigate to future or
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"Village
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provides details of hall availability, hire
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village, so if need anything click on it
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can view the monthly church magazine "The Net"
and other church notices
"Village
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activity groups, what they do, where &
when they meet and contact details
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Coffee
Morning at Serendipity
Every Friday morning from 10 until 12 Noon at
Serendipity
Fresh
Wet Fish from the van outside the old Queens
Head between 10 and 10:30am Thursdays
There were 1247 at the
time of the 2001 census, including c 400
in Wellington place
There are currently c 450 homes in the
parish of Hullavington, located mainly in
the village itself and in Wellington Place,
which is part of Buckley Barracks. There are also 3
hamlets and a few isolated farms. The
population of Hullavington has increased by
c300%.....(more)
Accommodation:
Serendipity Guest House. Has
won a variety of awards and provides
first rate accommodation and food. For contact
details click
(here)
Hullavington lies on the edge of the
so called Stone Belt which forms the
Wiltshire Cotswolds. This is Jurassic
geology that was laid down
between c135 million and 200 million
years ago when the land that, today, is Hullavington was
much closer to
the Equator and at the bottom of
the sea . To the west of
Hullavington
is the Great Oolite limestone
which contains the free
stone that is so easy to work into
fine quality blocks. Many of
the grand buildings of Bath, Cheltenham
etc are made from this stone.
Here in Hullavington we are actually
sat astride
the Cornbrash
and Oxford clays.
Cornbrash is a mix of 'rag stone'
and clay. The brash/clay
boundary seems to wiggle its way through
the village and you can have a
well drained garden sitting on the
brash, yet only a street away there is
clay. Nearly all of the older
houses in the village are made from this ragstone rubble that has
been quarried from locations around the
village. These old quarries are still
visible and are mainly to the West
of the village. .............(more)
Topography:
The highest point in
the parish is 126m (400 ft) above
sea level .....(more)
History & Pre-History
There is possibly an Anglo
Saxon Charter that records part of
the boundary of Hullavington. If it
exists, it would the first historical record
for Hullavington. Apart from this,
history begins for our village in
1086 with it being recorded in Domesday.
According to Domesday
Earl Harold, who became King
Harold the last of the Anglo
Saxon Kings, held Hullavington.
Various articles on
Hullavington's history from Domesday
up to more recent times can be found
on the following web pages:
Hullavington Memories from
people both past and present.
Provides an interesting insight into
our more recent social history.
As regards the pre-history, the archaeological
record indicates there
were at least 2 Romano
British settlements in the parish. A
geophysical survey indicates one
of these settlements is quite large
with a complex arrangement of
enclosures and buildings.
Other pre-historic finds include an Iron Age
coin, a rare and fine example
of a decorated Bronze Age
spear head, microliths (small
flints that were originally embedded
into wooden or bone mounts) of
the Mesolithic period
which spanned the time from
10,000BC to about 4,000BC. So
people have been visiting and
living in Hullavington for a long
long time.
Website Information-as of 23rd Feb 2007 Over the past
3 months we have averaged well over 1000
visits per month and the number is still rising.
Most visits are from people living in the parish,
but there are also a number from people that
once lived here but, for various
reasons, have moved away, yet have fond
memories of the place and like to visit us from afar
via the website. Some of these people have made
contact and provided
valuable and
enjoyable materiel for this website. We also heard
from a lady living in the USA who has contacts
with our village and likes to stay in touch.
All this is very welcome so please do contact us
and update us of your life. Many thanks to
all those who provide information and ideas
for the site. The success of any site is to keep the
content fresh and up-to-date, so please do keep
providing us with the information, articles,
reports on your groups activities, ideas for
new sections etc.
