• Codford : Wool and War in Wiltshire - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Codford: Wool and War in Wiltshire explores why the landscape and architecture of an agrarian parish look the way they do, and examines how its people, their livelihoods and social connections have made it what it is. From early Anglo-Saxon settlement to important military garrison, through lords and landowners, agriculture and religion, community organisations and the impact of two World Wars, this fascinating look into Codford's rich past will evoke the history of many similar places.
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• History of Tidworth and Tedworth House - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : For long centuries Tidworth had remained a rural settlement of farms and cottages, half in Hampshire, half in Wiltshire, with life revolving round the manors. Then, in 1901, the Army arrived. Within a few short years the place had undergone one of the most dramatic transformations to become the second largest military garrison in the country and known to countless thousands of soldiers who were stationed there.
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• Salisbury Past (Wiltshire, England) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : A 13th-century planned town, Salisbury's medieval layout can be easily traced and it is still dominated by its magnificent cathedral. Explaining the city's development, as a market, an industrial town, a transport hub and a county's social centre, the authors have very successfully met the challenge and produced an easy-to-read narrative.
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• The Register of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury, 1388-95 - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The 235 folios of John Waltham's register contain letters, dispensations and letters dimissory, institutions; parochial visitations, and judicial acta. Five of the calendar's seven appendices supply additional related matter. As well as expediting routine business, the bishop is seen resolving, with royal support, a longstanding dispute with his chapter, resisting metropolitical visitation, using canon law to excuse his failure to levy papal taxes and statute law to safeguard patronage from papal provisions, and uncovering details about Lollard masses. It is of some interest that the clerks who preside over his courts differed markedly in their methods and sentencing policy. The medieval diocese of Salisbury covered the old counties of Berkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire.
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• Wiltshire Place-names: Their Origins and Meanings - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This is an illustrated comprehensive guide to the place-names of Wiltshire including towns, villages, streets, pubs, farms, rivers and even woods. It describes how these names originated.
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