. Wiltshire notes and queries. e at West Cholderton.—At West Cholderton, Wilts,is a Yew Grove of about four acres. Through it runs an ancientboundary dyke by , of which the continuations are lostin arable land and in the garden of Cholderton House, which was 88 built in 1690O The yews are planted, for the most part, in rows,like the columns of a church,which has nave and are two circles in themain avenue, as shown inplan. The avenue is nearly250 yards long. The churchof St. Nicholas Cheldreton(Cholderton) was given tothe monks of St. Neots(Huntingdonshire), about1175. Had
. Wiltshire notes and queries. e at West Cholderton.—At West Cholderton, Wilts,is a Yew Grove of about four acres. Through it runs an ancientboundary dyke by , of which the continuations are lostin arable land and in the garden of Cholderton House, which was 88 built in 1690O The yews are planted, for the most part, in rows,like the columns of a church,which has nave and are two circles in themain avenue, as shown inplan. The avenue is nearly250 yards long. The churchof St. Nicholas Cheldreton(Cholderton) was given tothe monks of St. Neots(Huntingdonshire), about1175. Had they a househere; and may the have been their clois-ter garth ? Some of the treesare over 70 feet high. Thereis, I am told, a somewhatsimilar avenue of yews at aFarm between Wantage and Newbury, where was a religioushouse. In the grove at Cholderton is the base of a Normancolumn, of the common pattern, with horns at the the destruction of Amesbury Abbey a Cholderton man boughtmuch carved stone. L. S.
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