Population 3,448 (2011 census) Civil parish Redlynch Region South West Local time Sunday 4:36 PM Ceremonial county Wiltshire UK parliament constituency Salisbury | OS grid reference SU203210 Unitary authority Country England Dialling code 01725 Post town Salisbury | |
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Redlynch is a village and civil parish about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) southeast of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls immediately west and southwest of Redlynch, and Lover, 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Redlynch; together with the hamlets of Bohemia, Hamptworth and Nomansland. The village, and much of the parish, lies within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park.
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Map of Redlynch, Salisbury, UK
The River Blackwater rises near Lover and flows east through the parish towards Landford and Hampshire, where it joins the Test. North of Hamptworth, the river forms the parish boundary.
History
The earliest settlement was at Pensworth, north of Grove Copse and northwest of the present Redlynch, in the 12th or 13th centuries. This village had declined by the 15th century and in the 20th century the name survived only as Upper Pensworth Farm.
In the 18th century settlement was along roads and the edges of commons. Settlement increased in the 19th century, at Redlynch and at Warminster Green (called Lover since 1876) where the church and school were built.
Religious sites
Redlynch parish church of Saint Mary at Lover is a yellow brick building dating from 1837. Originally part of Downton parish, a separate ecclesiastical district was created for the church in 1841. The vicarage was the childhood home of Bernard Walke who served as an Anglican priest in three Cornish parishes.
The church of Saint Birinus at Morgan's Vale was built as a chapel of ease to Downton in 1894–96. It is a red brick Gothic Revival building with stone dressings and Perpendicular Gothic style windows. It was designed by the Gothic Revival architect C. E. Ponting of Marlborough in the style of his architectural contemporary W. D. Caroe. The benefices of the two churches were combined in 1968; as of 2016 the incumbent resides at Downton.
Woodfalls Methodist Church was built in 1874 by the Primitive Methodists and joined the Salisbury Methodist Circuit in the 1940s.
Notable buildings
Newhouse, west of Redlynch on the road towards Whiteparish, was built c. 1619. The house and estate were bought in 1633 by Giles Eyre (father of Sir Giles Eyre, member of Parliament and judge) and continue to be held by his descendants. The house has a distinctive Y-shaped plan and was designated as Grade I listed in 1960. There is an early 18th-century granary and two stable blocks, from 1750 and the late 19th.
Hamptworth Lodge was built in 1912 in the Tudor style, to designs of Sir Guy Dawber. The house is Grade II* listed.
Governance
The civil parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which performs most significant local government functions.
Redlynch was formerly part of the parish of Downton. It became a separate civil parish in 1896, then was extended in 1934 to include the former parish of Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls (which had separated from Downton in 1923), and Nomansland.
The parish is part of Redlynch and Landford electoral ward which stretches east from Redlynch to Landford. The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 4,719.
Amenities
There are two primary schools in the parish. Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls CE Primary School serves Morgan's Vale, Woodfalls, Lover and Redlynch; it was built as a National School in 1869, next to St Birinus' church. Children from Hamptworth and Nomansland attend New Forest Primary School which has two sites, at Nomansland and Landford.
Redlynch Village Hall is near the church at Lover. Built in 1922 as the church hall, it was modernised in the early 21st century.
The parish has four pubs: the Kings Head at Redlynch, the Wodfalls Inn at Woodfalls, the Cuckoo Inn at Hamptworth, and the Lamb Inn at Nomansland.