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Brinkworth, in northern Wiltshire, England, is the longest village in Britain, at over (although its core extends for less than 1 mile). It is roughly equidistant between the towns of Malmesbury and Royal Wootton Bassett and lies less than 1 km north of the M4 motorway. The civil parish of Brinkworth includes the hamlets of The Common and Callow Hill, and the tything of Grittenham, a rural community to the south of the village of Brinkworth. The Woodbridge Brook, a tributary of the Bristol Avon passes to the north of the village and another tributary of the Avon, the Thunder Brook passes to the south, although these days many call it Brinkworth Brook. An electoral ward of the same name exists. From Brinkworth the ward stretches west to Great Somerford and northwest to Crudwell. The total ward population at the 2011 census was 4,483.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ward population 2011 )〕 The village has a primary school, a public house (The Three Crowns) and a church. There is also a very small non-profit shop run by the Three Crowns that supplies essentials like bread, milk and eggs. Landscape artist Thomas Hearne moved to Brinkworth aged five. His biographer, Simon Fenwick, suggests that nearby Malmesbury Abbey proved an inspiration to Hearne's later interest in Gothic architecture. 〔Simon Fenwick, ‘Hearne, Thomas (1744–1817)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004〕 == History == Brinkworth Manor was given to Malmesbury Abbey by the nobleman Leofsige, sometime before the Domesday Book survey. The abbey held the land until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time it was granted to William Stumpe. It then passed into the family of the Earl of Berkshire and Suffolk, until it was sold privately between 1858 and 1960. It is likely that the other estate of Brinkworth mentioned in the Domesday, that held by Tochi, survived through the ensuing centuries as separate, smaller estates within the northern section of the parish (probably including Clitchbury Farm, Waldron's Farm and Whitehouse Farm). Grittenham is mentioned separately in the survey and was held at the time by Malmesbury Abbey. Following the dissolution it was granted to John Aycliffe, from whom it descended to the Lords Holland, who sold it privately at the end of the nineteenth century. 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「Brinkworth, Wiltshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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