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Dilton Marsh is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. The village is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the centre of the town of Westbury; expansion of the town has brought its Westbury Leigh suburb almost to the parish boundary. The parish is on the county border with Somerset. It includes the small settlements of Penknap (east of Dilton Marsh village); Stormore (now contiguous with the west of the village); Clearwood (a little further west); and the rural hamlets of Fairwood (north) and Hisomley (southwest). Dilton Marsh was made a civil parish in 1894, having previously been a chapelry in the parish of Westbury. In the UK census of 2011 the parish had a population of 1,934. [edit] History
The original settlement, Old Dilton, is some southeast of the present village centre at , on the banks of the Biss Brook. It now consists of a couple of farm houses and the ancient St Mary's Church. As fewer workers were needed in the local woollen industry after the introduction of greater mechanisation, many moved to the common land of the drained marsh (called Dilton's marsh) on the northern side of the ridge. By the early 19th century, Dilton Marsh had outgrown the older settlement. Formerly there was a brick and tile works in the east of the parish, and this has influenced the overall appearance of homes in the village. Many of the houses are brick, but others are of stone rubble with red brick dressings, and in some instances the front walls only are brick.[1] Dilton Marsh was a tithing of the ancient parish of Westbury, and the church at Dilton (now Old Dilton) was a chapelry of the parish church at Westbury. Dilton Marsh civil parish was created in 1894, bounded on the east by the Biss Brook and on the west by the county boundary; the southern extent of the new parish was reduced in 1934 when Chapmanslade civil parish was created.[1] Dilton Marsh had two schools in the 19th century. A British School was built in 1866, enlarged in 1884 and 1895, and became a County school 1906. A National School was built next to the new church c. 1848, and became a County school in 1904, when it was known as the Church of England school. The schools took children of all ages until the 1930s, when those over 11 transferred to the secondary school at Westbury. In 1938, the sites were reorganised into an Infants' school at the former British School, and a Junior school at the church school. [edit] Research Tips
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