Huish, Wiltshire

Huish
St. Nicholas's Church, Huish
The heart-shaped copse
Huish Huish shown within Wiltshire
Population	43 (in 2011)
OS grid reference	SU145635
Civil parish	Huish
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Marlborough
Postcode district	SN8
Dialling code	01672
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Devizes
Website	www.wilcotandhuish-pc.gov.uk
List of places UK England Wiltshire 51°22′12″N 1°47′35″W / 51.370°N 1.793°W / 51.370; -1.793Coordinates: 51°22′12″N 1°47′35″W / 51.370°N 1.793°W / 51.370; -1.793

Huish is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Pewsey and 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Marlborough. It is on the south-facing edge of the Marlborough Downs, where the downs adjoin the Vale of Pewsey.

A small settlement of 11 households was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, when the lord of the manor was Richard Sturmy or Esturmy. The population of the parish remained low, reaching around 130 at its height between 1831 and 1881, then declining to 30 at the 1971 census.

The church and Manor Farm lie some 250 metres north of the present village, along a lane which continues (now as a track) some 1.5km northwest to the site of the deserted village of Shaw, now in the parishes of Alton and West Overton. By the 18th century there was a hamlet on Huish Hill, straddling the boundary with Wilcot, some 900 metres north of Oare at grid reference SU157641; this hamlet began to be abandoned in the 1920s.

In 1803, land to the west of Oare village which belonged to the lords of Huish was deemed part of Huish parish. Thus the southeast boundary of Huish extends close to Oare, and Oare school (now Oare Church of England Primary School) is within Huish parish.

Cold Blow, a thatched house on the outskirts of Oare, was built in 1921-22 to designs of Clough Williams-Ellis.

A heart-shaped tree plantation was created in 1999, below Huish Hill in the southeast of the parish, near Oare. This is a geoglyph, but not a hill figure like the many surrounding "white horses" such as the Marlborough White Horse.