Hazelbury, Wiltshire

Hazelbury
Extinct settlement
Hazelbury Manor: part of gardens, with house behind
Hazelbury Hazelbury within Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°24′50″N 2°14′16″W
Country	England
County	Wiltshire
Parish	Box
Area code	01225

Hazelbury is a former village in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. It was about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) southeast of the present-day village of Box and 3 miles (5 km) south-west of the town of Corsham.

There was a Roman villa.[1] Hazelbury was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Haseberie, with 25 households and a church.[2] The church fell into disuse before 1540.[3] In the 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, Hazelbury is described as "once was a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol".[4] The name is spelled Hasilbury in a 1900 book.[5]

Chapel Plaister, an ancient roadside church and hospice for pilgrims which still stands about half a mile to the south-east, was dependent on Hazelbury church.[6]

The extinction of the village probably followed the Black Death pandemic.[7] Today only Hazelbury Manor survives: a 15th-century Grade I listed building in grounds of 186 acres (75 hectares).[8]

References

1. Historic England. "Site of Roman villa, Hazelbury House (207977)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 30 October 2015.
2. Hazelbury in the Domesday Book
3. "Hazelbury Church, Box". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
4. "Hazelbury, Wiltshire". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
5. George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 3, 1900, pp.36–37 – via Internet Archive
6. Orbach, Julian; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (2021). Wiltshire. The Buildings Of England. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-300-25120-3. OCLC 1201298091.
7. "Box parish". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
8. Historic England. "Hazelbury Manor (1363618)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 February 2022.