Heytesbury
| Heytesbury | |
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 A late 18th-century former maltings, Heytesbury |
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| Heytesbury shown within Wiltshire | |
| Population | 696 (in 2011) |
| OS grid reference | ST925426 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Warminster |
| Postcode district | BA12 |
| Dialling code | 01985 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | www |
Heytesbury is a village (formerly considered to be a town) and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village lies on the north bank of the Wylye, about 3 1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) southeast of the town of Warminster.
The civil parish includes most of the small neighbouring settlement of Tytherington, and the deserted village of Imber.
Chalk downland north of Heytesbury village has prehistoric earthworks including long barrows and round barrows.Strip lynchets are visible north and east of Cotley Hill.
The parish lies between the Iron Age hillforts of Scratchbury Camp and Knook Castle. A Romano-British settlement has been identified on Tytherington Hill, in the far south of the parish. Chapperton Down, west of Imber, has evidence of settlement and field systems from the same period and earlier.
The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a small settlement of eight households at Hestrebe, with a church. The hundred of Heytesbury, south and east of Warminster, comprised seventeen places.
The Hungerford family held land at Heytesbury by the 1390s, and reared sheep in the surrounding area in the next century. Family members include Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury.
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) described Heytesbury as follows:
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