Place:Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

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Name
Ramsbury
Alternate names
Aecclesia Corvinensis     (Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 380)
Hremnesbyrig     (Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 380)
Ramesberie     (Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 380)
Rammesburi     (Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 380)
Remnesbery     (Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 380)
Type
Village
Coordinates
51.433°N 1.6°W
Located in
Wiltshire, England     (500 - )

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Ramsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. In the Census 2001, the parish had a population of 3257.

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History

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The well-known Littlecote Roman Villa is located within the parish, but the earliest recorded history of Ramsbury can only be traced back to the Saxons who considered the site of such importance that a bishopric was created in AD 909. The see was moved to Old Sarum in 1075.

The church is 13th century, and has a ghost story: if anyone counts the hundred studs on the north door at midnight, it will open, and Wild William Darrell of Littlecote House will come out.

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