# Lower Chicksgrove

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{{Short description|Hamlet in Wiltshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
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|country =               England
|static_image_name=      Manor House - geograph.org.uk - 906193.jpg
|static_image_caption=   Chicksgrove Manor
|coordinates =           {{coord|51.0694|-2.0438|type:city(50)_region:GB-WIL|display=inline,title}}            
|official_name=          Lower Chicksgrove
|population =  
|population_ref= 
|civil_parish= [Sutton Mandeville](/source/Sutton_Mandeville)
|unitary_england       = [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire_Council)
|lieutenancy_england   = [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire)
|region=                 South West England
|constituency_westminster = [Salisbury](/source/Salisbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|post_town=              Salisbury
|postcode_district =     SP3
|postcode_area=          SP
|dial_code=              01722
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|os_grid_reference=      ST9693130067
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}}

'''Lower Chicksgrove''' is a [hamlet](/source/hamlet_(place)) on the north bank of the [River Nadder](/source/River_Nadder) in the south of the county of [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire), England, within the [Vale of Wardour](/source/Vale_of_Wardour).  It is about {{convert|2|mi|km}} east of [Tisbury](/source/Tisbury%2C_Wiltshire) and {{convert|10|mi|km|0}} west of [Salisbury](/source/Salisbury).

The settlement is recorded in the 12th century as ''Chicksgrove'' and a nearby settlement as ''Stoford''; Chicksgrove was first recorded as Lower Chicksgrove and Stoford as Upper Chicksgrove in the later 19th century. Most of the settlement at Lower Chicksgrove in the later 18th century was along a north–south lane, west of the crossing of the Tisbury-[Fovant](/source/Fovant) and [Chilmark](/source/Chilmark%2C_Wiltshire)-[Ebbesbourne Wake](/source/Ebbesbourne_Wake) roads, where the farmsteads belonging to Tisbury manor stood.<ref name="vch" />

Chicksgrove Manor, which is the largest of these to survive, is said to have been occupied by the Davies family from the 16th to 18th centuries, and was the birthplace of the lawyer, poet, and political writer [Sir John Davies](/source/John_Davies_(poet%2C_born_1569)) (1569-1626) who became [Attorney General of Ireland](/source/Attorney_General_of_Ireland).<ref name="vch">{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol13/pp195-248|title=Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 13 pp195-248 – Parishes: Tisbury|last=Freeman|first=Jane|last2=Stevenson|first2=Janet H.|date=1987|editor-last=Crowley|editor-first=D. A.|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=23 May 2015}}</ref> The [Grade II* listed](/source/Listed_building) manor house, in rubble stone under a thatched roof, has 14th-century origins.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1146012|desc=Chicksgrove Manor|access-date=23 May 2015}}</ref>

For local government purposes, Lower Chicksgrove is part of the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) of [Sutton Mandeville](/source/Sutton_Mandeville), having been transferred from Tisbury parish in 1986.<ref name=vch />

[Chicksgrove Quarry](/source/Chicksgrove_Quarry), a quarry south of the river extracting [Chilmark stone](/source/Chilmark_stone), was part of Chicksgrove manor but is now in Tisbury parish.

The 2009 film ''[Morris: A Life with Bells On](/source/Morris%3A_A_Life_with_Bells_On)'' was partly filmed at the Compasses Inn which is south of the river, on the road to Sutton Mandeville in a hamlet marked on some maps as Chicksgrove.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://thecompassesinn.com/ Compasses Inn website]
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Category:Hamlets in Wiltshire

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