Bromham, Wiltshire

Description
Bromham, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands 1 1/2 mile N of the Kennet and Avon Canal, 1 1/2 S of the Roman road to Bath, 3 miles N by E of Seend station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 NW of Devizes, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chippenham. The parish comprises 3519 acres; population of the civil parish, 1137; of the ecclesiastical, 932. The manor was held in the time of Edward the Confessor by Earl Harold, and belonged in the time of Henry VI. to Lord St Amand. Sloperton Cottage, in the north, near Bowood Park, was long the residence and eventually the death-place of the poet Moore. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £764 with residence. The church is Decorated English, richly sculptured, has a handsome spire, was restored in 1869, and contains tombs of the Bayntons, an alabaster tomb of Sir William Tecotes, and. a monumental tablet to Dr Season, who wrote " Season on the Seasons." The churchyard contains the grave of the poet Moore. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and almshouses. Bishop Webbe, the Somerset county historian Collinson, and Dr Season were natives.