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Welcome to the Stanton St Quintin Parish Council Website …

Stanton St Quintin is a small village and parish in the North West of Wiltshire; about 4 miles north of Chippenham and 5 miles south of Malmesbury. The parish includes Lower Stanton St Quintin, to the east of the A429 as well as Buckley Barracks and part of Hullavington Airfield. It is partly bounded by the M4 motorway.

The area has a long history with the earliest evidence of settlement coming from the site of a Roman villa which was found at Stanton Park.  The village and manor are mentioned in the Domesday Book and a Church is believed to have stood here from the 12th century.   The name ‘Stanton’ has its origins in the Saxon for ‘stoney’ and the ‘St Quintin’ suffix was in use by 1283, but it had an alternative suffix ‘FitzHugh’ in the early 16th century; being the surnames of lords of the manor. The population was never large until land was purchased by the MoD to create Hullavington Airfield when the population grew to over a 1000.

Parish Boundary Map

The Conservation Area includes all the traditional buildings in the settlement and the surrounding agricultural land which provides a setting to this village. The Conservation Area is small and compact and is concentrated on the older part of the settlement, which now has a number of 20th Century developments to the north and south. There is a significant grouping of RAF houses from the 1950s on the north side of the settlement beyond the Conservation Area with more recent infilling up to its boundary. Most boundaries consist of hedges or fences but little stone walling. The main visual links with the surrounding countryside occur at the village entrances and exits.

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient map - date unknown

A Fragment from Andrews’ and Dury’s Map of Wiltshire, 1773