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Pertwood is a very small village, former civil parish, and manor, near Warminster in the county of Wiltshire in the west of England.〔(Pertwood ) at Visions of Britain web site〕 Its land and houses now lie in the parishes of East Knoyle and Sutton Veny and have fewer than twenty inhabitants. The only settlement is at Upper Pertwood, also called Higher Pertwood, but not far away is Lower Pertwood, with only one house, and 'Pertwood' is the collective name for the two together. Lower Pertwood is now run as Pertwood Organic. Higher Pertwood is run as Pertwood Manor Farm by different people. ==History== Before the Norman Conquest, the manor of Pertwood was held by a man named Wlward. At the Domesday survey of 1086, it was held by Geoffrey de Mowbray, Bishop of Coutances, and contained two hides, of which one and a half were in demesne and the rest was held of the manor by tenants. Two villeins, three bordars, one plough, twenty acres of pasture and four of woodland were recorded. Pertwood later became a manor of the Earls of Gloucester, which it remained until the early 15th century.〔 Pertwood Down, on high ground to the west of Pertwood, has several barrows and traces of Celtic field systems, but all such remains lie outside the area of the former parish.〔'Pertwood', in ''A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds'' (1965), (pp. 58-61 ) online, accessed 22 November 2010〕〔P. J. Fowler, ''The farming of prehistoric Britain'' (1983), p. 100〕 Just to the north of Lower Pertwood Farm, the Romans, in building a straight road, unusually diverted their road around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it.〔John Rutter, ''Delineations of the north western division of the county of Somerset, and of its antedeluvian bone caverns, with a geological sketch of the district (1829), (p. 330 ) online〕〔Thomas Codrington, ''Roman roads in Britain'' (Society for Promoting of Christian Knowledge, 1919), p. 249〕 In 1829, the Roman road near Pertwood was described as "still remarkably perfect".〔 In 1808, a topographer wrote of Pertwood that it was "...a decayed parish in the hundred of Warminster... containing 2 houses and 15 inhabitants".〔Benjamin Pitts Capper, ''A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom'' (1808)〕 The Revd John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–1872) said of Pertwood: In 1885 the parish of Pertwood was extinguished, with its southern part being added to East Knoyle, its northern part to Sutton Veny.〔''Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire'' (1939)〕 A detailed parish history was published in 1965 by the Wiltshire Victoria County History in its volume 8.〔 In April 1993, the Tribal Gathering music festival took place at Pertwood, and in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2000 it was the site of the Big Green Gathering.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Big Green Gathering )〕 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「Pertwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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