Conkwell

{{Short description|Hamlet in Wiltshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|static_image_name = Conkwell from the bottom - geograph.org.uk - 579851.jpg

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|coordinates = {{coord|51.362|-2.300|type:city(50)_region:GB-WIL|display=inline,title}}

|os_grid_reference= ST792626

|official_name=Conkwell

|population =

|civil_parish= Winsley

|unitary_england= Wiltshire

|lieutenancy_england= Wiltshire

|region= South West England

|post_town= Bradford-on-Avon

|postcode_district= BA15

|postcode_area= BA

|dial_code= 01225

|constituency_westminster = Melksham and Devizes

|website=

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Conkwell is a hamlet in Winsley parish, Wiltshire, England, near the county border with North East Somerset. It is about {{convert|2.3|mi|km}} west of Bradford-on-Avon and {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} southeast of the city of Bath. The settlement was established to house the workers in the local stone quarries. The southern side is in Winsley, but the northern is in the Somerset parish of Bathford.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=30 September 2010|title=Conkwell, Winsley|url=http://www.bradfordonavonmuseum.co.uk/archives/722|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323143108/http://www.bradfordonavonmuseum.co.uk/archives/722 |archive-date=23 March 2017 |access-date=2020-07-13|website=Bradford on Avon Museum|language=en-GB}}

There used to be a small chapel serving the community, which has been incorporated into one of the dwellings.{{cite magazine |last=Kirkwood |first=Holly |title=Beautiful cottage near Bath for sale |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/country-houses-for-sale-and-property-news/beautiful-cottage-near-bath-for-sale-5940 |date=21 August 2013 |magazine=Country Life}}{{cite book |last=Harris |first=Khim |title=Evangelicals and Education: Evangelical Anglicans and Middle-class Education in Nineteenth-century England |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3jZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA29|publisher=Paternoster Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1842-2725-03 |page =212}} Conkwell Grange, to the south of the hamlet, is a country house built in 1907, designed in 17th-century style by E. G. Dawber for J. Thornton;{{National Heritage List for England|num=1180870|desc=Conkwell Grange|access-date=13 July 2020}} the house is surrounded by an estate, created at the same time.{{cite web|title=Winsley|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/248|access-date=13 July 2020|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council}} Racehorses are trained at stables immediately east of the house.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Neil Mulholland Racing|url=http://www.neilmulhollandracing.com/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123012327/http://www.neilmulhollandracing.com:80/ |archive-date=23 November 2010 |access-date=2021-02-11|website=}}

At the end of the Dundas Aqueduct on the Kennet and Avon Canal, a wharf was constructed to serve the Conkwell stone quarries.{{cite book |last=Halse |first=Roger |author2=Simon Castens | title=The Somersetshire Coal Canal: A Pictorial Journey | year=2000 | publisher=Millstream Books | location=Bath |isbn=0-948975-58-X }}