Everything about Dilton Marsh totally explained
Dilton Marsh is a village and
parish in the County of
Wiltshire, in the south west of England.=Location=
Its closest town is
Westbury, which lies due east of the village.
To the west is the
Somerset town of
Frome;
Warminster is to the south, and
Trowbridge (the county town) is just to the north (these last two are both in Wiltshire).
Features
The village High Street is 2 km (2187 yd) long. In the centre of the village is Holy Trinity Church. This Anglican church was built in 1844 in a rather unusual neo-Romanesque style by
Thomas Henry Wyatt. The village also has a primary school, a public house (the Prince of Wales), a post office, grocery shop and Chinese takeaway.
Transport Links
At the eastern end of the village is
Dilton Marsh Halt, a simple railway platform on the regional line. It is the subject of the
John Betjeman poem
Dilton Marsh Halt.
History
The original settlement, Old
Dilton, some 2.5 km (1.5 miles) south of the present village centre at, now consists of a couple of farm houses and the beautiful St Mary's Church (with a triple-decker [pulpit] and
box pews). As fewer workers were needed in the local woollen industry, with the introduction of greater mechanisation, many moved to the common land of the drained marsh on the northern side of the ridge. By the early nineteenth century, Dilton Marsh had outgrown the older settlement.
Local government
Dilton Marsh has its own, elected
parish council. Local government services are provided by
West Wiltshire District Council and
Wiltshire County Council, both of whom have their offices in nearby
Trowbridge. The village is represented in
Parliament by the
MP for
Westbury,
Andrew Murrison, and in
Wiltshire County Council by
Christopher Newbury.
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