BRATTON: Wiltshire Parish #5 of 258

WILTSHIRE PARISH #5 OF 258: BRATTON

Bratton – “Cultivated Settlement”

I hope you’re ready for this one folks. So far in Wiltshire we’ve covered some truly wonderful places, ones that look stunningly beautiful. That’s Wiltshire in a nutshell, but future episodes are going to have to go some to beat this one. This is Bratton, a village that lies about two and a half miles away from Westbury, again under the Northern slope of Salisbury Plain.

Bratton was famous for a major industrial works that was known nationally. The Bratton Ironworks, which began as a humble blacksmith in 1799, grew to become the largest employer in the area. It closed in 1970 and none of its buildings now stand, but its history has not been forgotten. The village is pretty amazing, for quite a few reasons.

There are several stunning buildings like Bratton House, and the Court House for example. Its had many notable residents in its time, including Major General Sir Jeremy Moore – the Commander of British land forces during the Falklands War, and Rebecca Smith, the last British woman to be executed for infanticide. Watch this one right to the end, because within Bratton’s boundaries is one of the largest – literally – symbols associated with Wiltshire. Its located upon a hill, with a panoramic view like none other we’ve ever witnessed.

Let’s get moving and see what it could be!

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General History:

The Court House:

Listed Buildings:

St Catherine’s Well:

Luccombe Spring/Stradbrook:

The Duke:

War Memorial:

Melbourne House:

Demographics:

Rightmove:

Some of the following music tracks may appear in this video:
Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
The Keyhouse - "Voices" (H. Flunder)
The Keyhouse - "Circles" (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - "Sun" (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “Angels” (H. Flunder)
Helen Flunder - “C Song” (H. Flunder)

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[JennyFord-oerc]

Brought back many memories for me. Often sat on the horses eye in my youth

[grahamgetsabout]

What a fantastic video Andy, thank you 👏👏👏👏👌

[robinanoble]

What a beautiful village. Really interesting to watch. Many thanks.

[pennylane]

Hi Andy..
Yes the horse is famous.
Village is lovely..
With many beautiful houses
Great video
Thanks

[venner]

What a great Video, I grew up in Bratton and lived there for about 17 years, went to the primary school, watching this video has made me want to go back so thats Sunday sorted for my family back to Bratton for a nice walk (subject to weather)

[russchapman]

Weve just moved into Bratton, you missed our house just, built in 1640 and tucked away down a little lane with a natural spring next to it, its a lovely spot and we never get bored of the view from the top by the horse, great video

[BillynBertie]

What! Not a single view of Castle Road, the best part of the village, where we lived for 20 years up to 2003! An interesting collection of houses and we used to watch all those going up and down the hill to Bratton Castle and speeding down the hill at 60 mph in the 30 mph limit. I remember doing that in my childhood on my bike! Lovely commentary brought back lots of memories of our time in Bratton, though now we live in France where we have been for the last 21 years. Thank you for posting it.

[annmonica]

That's my back garden in the first footpath😮

[cjmeyewear]

I grew up in Bratton, my family are still there and I'm planning on moving back later in the year, So interesting to see the village through a strangers eyes 🙂
The house I grew up in was called Ballards ( not shown on the video) so probably linked to Bratton House in some way a few hundred years ago. And The Oratory was still being used as a Sunday school when I was a child 60's & 70's...mum was the Sunday school teacher 🙂

I remember Reeves iron works being demolished, one of the workmen lodged with us for a few weeks and saved us a brick from the top of the chimney after we had all watched it topple, don't know what happened to it!

[Irish]

Hi Andy, Thank you for the nice visit.

[JohnMulhern]

"vertigo inducing"....no word of a lie but I could feel it from here 🙂

[kathrynhiggins]

Bratton won best kept village in 2023 😀

[rogerdavid]

my family the smiths came from bratton, we migrated to south wales at about 1850. i have traced my family back to 1715 in bratton village, i reckon some the smiths that i, am related to still live in the area.