Coordinates: 51°04′00″N 2°04′49″W / 51.0668°N 2.0803°W
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.png)  Tisbury
Tisbury shown within Wiltshire |
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| Population | 2,056 (2001) |
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| District | Salisbury |
| Shire county | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Salisbury |
| Postcode district | SP3 |
| Dialling code | 01747 |
| Police | Wiltshire |
| Fire | Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| European Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | Salisbury |
| List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire | |
The small town of Tisbury lies approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire.
With a population at the 2001 census of 2,056[1]it is an important local centre for communities around the upper River Nadder and Vale of Wardour. It is the largest settlement within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (larger nearby settlements such as Salisbury and Shaftesbury are just outside of it).
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Transport
One of Tisbury's most important facilities is its railway station which is on the Waterloo - Salisbury - Yeovil - Exeter line, placing its residents within commuting distance of the capital. It is only a few minutes drive to the A303 trunk road linking South East England with the West Country.
History
The small town has some certain historical significance. As in much of the Wiltshire downs, there is evidence of Bronze Age settlement and traces of a probable henge monument with some evidence of settlement 3-4000 years ago. To the southeast of the town there is a quite large hill fort, known as Castle Ditches.[2]
The Saxon settlement came into the possession of Shaftesbury Abbey across the county border in Dorset. The administration centre was the monastic grange, still called Abbey Grange Place Farm. Its 15th-century thatched tithe barn bears the largest thatched roof in England. The old Wardour Castle lies approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the southwest of Tisbury.
The village's 13th-century prosperity came from the chalk quarries that produced stone for the buuilding of Salisbury Cathedral, and from the wool that supported a local cloth induistry. The village suffered a serious setback with the Black Death in the mid-14th century but slowly recovered.
The churchyard of the parish church of St John's holds the graves of Rudyard Kipling's parents. It also holds the second oldest tree in Great Britain, a large yew tree, which is believed to be around 4,000 years old.
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