Hippenscombe

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{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|static_image_name = The settlement of Hippenscombe - geograph.org.uk - 4190030.jpg

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|coordinates = {{coord|51.303|-1.556|type:city(50)_region:GB-WIL|display=inline,title}}

|official_name = Hippenscombe

|population =

|civil_parish= Tidcombe and Fosbury

|unitary_england= Wiltshire

|lieutenancy_england= Wiltshire

|region=South West England

|constituency_westminster = East Wiltshire

|post_town= Marlborough

|postcode_district = SN8

|postcode_area= SN

|dial_code= 01264

|os_grid_reference= SU310561

}}

Hippenscombe is a hamlet within the civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. Marked only on large-scale maps, it lies to the southwest of Oakhill Wood and the northwest of Conholt Park, about {{convert|8|mi|km|0}} south of Hungerford, Berkshire.

Hippenscombe has a long separate history of its own, having been an extra-parochial area.{{cite web|title=Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 16 pp226-229 – Hippenscombe|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol16/pp226-229|author-last1=Baggs|author-first1=A P|date=|year=1999|editor-last=Crowley|editor-first=D.A.|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=17 May 2020|author-first4=J H|author-first5=E|author-last5=Williamson|author-first3=C|author-last2=Freeman|author-first2=J|author-last3=Smith|author-last4=Stevenson}} Much of the land was assigned in 1553 to Edward Seymour (1539–1621), later Earl of Hertford and the builder of Tottenham House in Savernake Forest, and was owned by his descendants until sold by Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury in 1827.

The area was severely affected by the Swing Riots of 1830.{{Cite web|title=The Swing Riots around Burbage|url=http://www.burbage-wiltshire.co.uk/historic/swing.html|last=Younger|first=Colin|date=1996|website=Burbage, Wiltshire, England|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320034252/http://www.burbage-wiltshire.co.uk/historic/swing.html|archive-date=20 March 2016|access-date=}} The population taken at 19th-century censuses was never more than 59, and by 1891 had declined to 35.{{Cite web|title=Hippenscombe CP/ExP/ExP through time {{!}} Population Statistics|url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10413461/cube/TOT_POP|last=|first=|date=|website=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-17}}

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) said of Hippenscombe:

{{quote|HIPPENSCOMBE, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Hants and Berks, 4¼ miles NE of Ludgershall. Acres, 980. Real property, £545. Pop., 42. Houses, 11.[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=22512 Hippenscombe] at visionofbritain.org.uk}}

In 1858 Hippenscombe became a separate civil parish.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10413461|title=Relationships and changes Hippenscombe ExP/ExP/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=16 May 2024}} Hippenscombe was added to Tidcombe ecclesiastical parish in 1879{{London Gazette

| issue = 24728

| date = 27 May 1879

| pages = 3603-4

}} and to Tidcombe and Fosbury civil parish in 1894.