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Aldbourne is a village and civil parish about northeast of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. It is in a valley in the south slope of the Lambourn Downs, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. From here an unnamed winterbourne flows and joins the River Kennet south near the village of Ramsbury. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,833. The parish includes the hamlets of Upper Upham and Woodsend, and part of the hamlet of Preston which straddles the boundary with Ramsbury parish. The small village of Snap was deserted in the early 20th century. ==History== Lewisham Castle is a small medieval ringwork about south-west of the village. It is not certain whether it was in fact a castle.〔 In the English Civil War a Royalist force led by Prince Rupert fought a Parliamentarian force in a skirmish at Aldbourne Chase on 18 September 1643, two days before the First Battle of Newbury. A Baptist chapel was opened in 1841 in Back Lane and rebuilt as New Zoar Chapel in 1868. The chapel was sold in 1914 and demolished at some time after 1931; its burial ground survives. A Primitive Methodist chapel opened in West Street in about 1840, and a new chapel was built on the same site in 1906. Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel in Lottage Road in 1807, which was rebuilt in 1844. In 1968 both groups of Methodists combined to build Aldbourne Methodist Church〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.smmct.org.uk/aldbourne.htm )〕 in a newly built hall in Lottage Road; the old chapel in West Street was demolished in 1982. Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne Division was based at Aldbourne in 1944, in the months before D-Day and before Operation Market Garden. The company was featured in the HBO series ''Band of Brothers''. Two disused village pumps survive in the village. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aldbourne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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