Hippenscombe

Hippenscombe
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Hippenscombe
Hippenscombe shown within Wiltshire
OS grid reference	SU310561
Civil parish	Tidcombe and Fosbury
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Marlborough
Postcode district	SN8
Dialling code	01264
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Devizes
List of places UK England Wiltshire 51°18′11″N 1°33′22″W / 51.303°N 1.556°W / 51.303; -1.556Coordinates: 51°18′11″N 1°33′22″W / 51.303°N 1.556°W / 51.303; -1.556

Hippenscombe is a small settlement within the civil parish of Tidcombe and Fosbury, Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. Marked only on large-scale maps, its location is to the southwest of Oakhill Wood and the northwest of Conholt Park, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Hungerford, Berkshire.

Hippenscombe has a long separate history of its own, having been an extra-parochial area. It was severely affected by the Swing Riots of 1830.

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) said of Hippenscombe:

HIPPENSCOMBE, an extra-parochial tract in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; adjacent to Hants and Berks, 4¼ miles NE of Ludgershall. Acres, 980. Real property, £545. Pop., 42. Houses, 11.

It was incorporated into Tidcombe in 1879.

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