Place:Fosbury, Wiltshire, England

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NameFosbury
TypeChapelry
Coordinates51.321°N 1.542°W
Located inWiltshire, England     ( - 1894)
See alsoTidcombe, Wiltshire, Englandparish in which Fosbury was a chapelry
Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire, Englandcivil parish into which it was merged in 1894
Kennet District, Wiltshire, England1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, Englandunitary authority since 2009
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Fosbury is a small village in Wiltshire, England, on the eastern edge of the county, near Hampshire. It is about 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Marlborough and 7 miles (11 km) south of Hungerford, Berkshire. With few inhabitants, it forms part of the civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury, which has a parish meeting.

The Anglican Christ Church is Grade II* listed. It was built in 1854-56 by S.S. Teulon and declared redundant in 1979.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Fosbury from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"FOSBURY, a chapelry in Tidcombe and Shalbourn parishes, Wilts; adjacent to Hants and Berks, 3¾ miles NE of Ludgershall, and 6 SSE of Savernake [railway] station. It was constituted in 1856; and its post town is Collingbourne Ducis or Collingbourne Kingston, under Marlborough. Population: 336. Houses: 70. The property is not much divided. Fosbury House is the seat of R.L. Bevan, Esq. An ancient camp, called Haydon Hill Castle, is here. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £180. Patron: [Deans and Curates] of Windsor. The church is recent.

In 1894 Fosbury, which was detached from the main part of its parish of Tidcombe, merged with Tidcombe to become one civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury. At the same time the intervening area made up of the parish of Hippescombe also became part of the parish.

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