The manningfords

Wiltshire village, 2 miles west of Pewsey, in the words of the Kennet Local Plan 'the quintessential essence of the Vale of Pewsey'. It is in the Wessex Downs Area of Natural Beauty (AONB).

The name derives from an early British tribe, the Mannings, and the ford over the (Christchurch) Avon River. The Civil Parish was formed in 1934 to combine the 3 ancient Parishes all of which were mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086.

20 CENTURY CLOSURES -
Railway station Manningford Halt 1966
Reading Room, Hare Street, M. Abbots
Village School, Hare Street, M.Bruce.
Local bus service.
2 of the 3 churches (M.Bohune & M.Abbots 1980)
Public House, The Dragon Inn, Dragon Lane.
Village Shop, P.O.Stores reduced to a mornings-only sub Post Office.


View the Manningford Chairman's Report for 2008 - 2009


View the Manningford Village Design Statement