Sutton Mandeville

The hamlet of Sutton Row is about one mile west of Sutton Mandeville village. Lower Chicksgrove, in the northwest of the parish and on the left (north) bank of the Nadder, was transferred from Tisbury parish in 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol13/pp195-248|title=Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 13 pp195-248 – Parishes: Tisbury|last1=Freeman|first1=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}}

The Apshill area, south of the river on the road from Sutton Row to Lower Chicksgrove, was also part of the transfer from Tisbury parish. The hamlet here, which includes the Compasses Inn,{{Cite web|url=http://thecompassesinn.com/|title=The Compasses Inn, Chicksgrove|last=|first=|date=|website=|language=en-US|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-12}} is unmarked on a 1958 Ordnance Survey map{{cite web|url=http://maps.nls.uk/view/95749775|title=Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, sheet ST92|date=1958|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=12 April 2020}} but on some modern maps is labelled as Chicksgrove.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/|title=Election Maps|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Ordnance Survey|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=12 April 2020}}

No prehistoric sites are recorded in the area, although an Iron Age hillfort known as Castle Ditches lies to the west in Tisbury parish.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1005701|desc=Castle Ditches camp|access-date=13 April 2020}} Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a settlement of 25 households at Sudtone, with woodland and a mill.{{OpenDomesday|ST9828|sutton-mandeville|Sutton Mandeville}}

Later landowners included the Wyndham family of Dinton House (later Philipps House).{{National Heritage List for England|num=1250706|desc=Church Farmhouse|access-date=13 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}}

In 1859 the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway opened their line from Salisbury to Gillingham, following the Nadder valley and crossing the parish north of Sutton Mandeville. The station at {{rws|Dinton}} was closed in 1966;{{cite book|last1=Oakley|first1=Mike|title=Wiltshire Railway Stations|date=2004|publisher=The Dovecote Press|isbn=1-904349-33-1|location=Wimborne|pages=56–57}} {{rws|Tisbury}} station remains in use, and the line forms part of the route from London Waterloo to Exeter via Salisbury.

During the First World War, in the fields to the south of the village across to Sutton Down thousands of British and Australian soldiers were encamped in temporary wooden huts, undergoing training and preparation for the battlefields of France and Belgium. They made up two camps, one to the north of the A30 road and another to the south.{{cite web

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| quote = }} Soldiers from various regiments were present at different times, among them the 7th Battalion of the London Regiment{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The People: 3/7th London Regiment|url=https://suttonbadges.org.uk/the-people/37th-london-regiment/|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=31 January 2021|website=Sutton Badges|publisher=Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust|quote=}} (known as the Shiny 7th), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment,{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The People: Royal Warwickshire Regiment|url=https://suttonbadges.org.uk/the-people/royal-warwickshire-regiment/|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=31 January 2021|website=Sutton Badges|publisher=Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust|quote=}} The Royal Field Artillery{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The People: Royal Field Artillery|url=https://suttonbadges.org.uk/the-people/royal-field-artillery/|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=31 January 2021|website=Sutton Badges|publisher=Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust|quote=}} and the First Australian Imperial Force.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The People: Australian Imperial Force|url=https://suttonbadges.org.uk/the-people/australian-imperial-force/|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=31 January 2021|website=Sutton Badges|publisher=Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust|quote=}} Soldiers of the Shiny 7th and the Warwickshire Regiment carved their regimental cap badges on the chalk downland of Sutton Down. These were cared for by the Fovant Badges Association until the 1990s, after when they started to become overgrown. In 2018 a local group was formed to uncover the badges and restore them to their former condition; renovation work was carried out in 2018–19 and they are now clearly visible from the A30.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=What We are Doing|url=https://suttonbadges.org.uk/what-we-are-doing/|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=31 Jan 2021|website=Sutton Badges|publisher=Sutton Mandeville Heritage|quote=}}

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The parish church dedicated to All Saints, built in uncoursed dressed limestone, dates from the 13th century; the chancel arch is from that period. The chancel was restored in 1850 and there was further restoration in 1862. The church was recorded as Grade II* listed in 1966.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1318693|desc=Church of All Saints, Sutton Mandeville|access-date=12 April 2020}}

The three-stage west tower was built in the 15th century and carries three bells: one possibly dated 1399, the others cast by John Wallis in 1615 and 1616.{{cite web|url=http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?DoveID=SUTTON+MAN|title=Sutton Mandeville|website=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers|access-date=12 April 2020}} In the churchyard is a late 17th-century sundial, restored in the 19th century.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1250703|desc=Churchyard sundial|access-date=13 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}}

At some point the benefice was united with those of Fovant and Compton Chamberlayne. In 1979 the benefice of Teffont Evias with Teffont Magna was added to the union{{London Gazette

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Church Farmhouse, now a dwelling, began as a cottage in the 17th century. An 18th-century watermill on the Nadder, northwest of the village, was in use to grind flour until the 1940s.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1146289|desc=Sutton Mandeville Mill|access-date=14 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}}{{cite web|title=Watermill, Sutton Mandeville|url=https://catalogue.millsarchive.org/watermill-sutton-mandeville|website=Mills Archive|date=|access-date=14 April 2020}}

Chicksgrove Manor at Lower Chicksgrove is Grade II* listed. The house, in rubble stone under a thatched roof, has 14th-century origins and is described by Historic England as "a very fine Wiltshire manor house retaining many features from different periods of its development".{{National Heritage List for England|num=1146012|desc=Chicksgrove Manor|access-date=14 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}} Behind the house is an 18th-century timber-framed granary, on staddle stones.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1146013|desc=Granary at Chicksgrove Manor|access-date=14 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}}

Apshill House, part of the hamlet between Sutton Row and Lower Chicksgrove, dates from the 14th century and was altered and extended in the 16th and 17th. Historic England state it is "an unusual survival of a hall house".{{National Heritage List for England|num=1318814|desc=Apshill House|access-date=14 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}} The Compasses Inn, in the same hamlet, is a late 17th-century building.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1145999|desc=The Compasses Inn|access-date=14 April 2020|fewer-links=yes}}

The parish has a locally elected parish council, which was created in 1974 to replace the earlier parish meeting. This is consulted on all parish matters, while most significant local government functions are carried out by Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority.

• John Wyndham (1870–1933), cricketer and army officer, born in the parish

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• [https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/SuttonMandeville/index.shtml Sutton Mandeville] at genuki.org.uk
• {{cite web|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/218|title=Sutton Mandeville|last=|first=|date=|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
• [https://www.suttonmandevillepc.org/ Sutton Mandeville Parish Council]
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