Hazelbury, Wiltshire
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Hazelbury | |
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Extinct settlement | |
 Hazelbury Manor: part of gardens, with house behind | |
  Hazelbury Hazelbury within Wiltshire | |
| Coordinates: 51°24′50″N 2°14′16″W / 51.41389°N 2.23778°W | |
| Country | England |
| County | Wiltshire |
| Parish | Box |
| Area code | 01225 |
Hazelbury is a former village in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. It was about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) southeast of the present-day village of Box and 3 miles (5 km) south-west of the town of Corsham.
There was a Roman villa.[1] Hazelbury was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Haseberie, with 25 households and a church.[2] The church fell into disuse before 1540.[3] In the 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, Hazelbury is described as "once was a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol".[4] The name is spelled Hasilbury in a 1900 book.[5]
Chapel Plaister, an ancient roadside church and hospice for pilgrims which still stands about half a mile to the south-east, was dependent on Hazelbury church.[6]
The extinction of the village probably followed the Black Death pandemic.[7] Today only Hazelbury Manor survives: a 15th-century Grade I listed building in grounds of 186 acres (75 hectares).[8]
