All Cannings

All Cannings (pronounced "Allcannings") is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Devizes.

[2] Etchilhampton Water, a tributary of the River Avon, forms part of the southern boundary of the parish.

[3] Prehistoric sites in the north of the present parish include Rybury Camp, a Neolithic causewayed enclosure overlaid by a late Bronze Age or early Iron Age hillfort, occupying some 2 hectares on a prominent ridge near Tan Hill.

[4] All Cannings Cross is an Iron Age site further south, which was investigated by Ben and Maud Cunnington from 1911; they made important finds of pottery.

A village probably existed on the current site by the tenth century, as the invading Danes at that time referred to Canning marsh.

[7] The Wiltshire Victoria County History traces the ownership of All Cannings manor from 1536, when it was granted to Edward Seymour, later Duke of Somerset.

[13] The chancel was rebuilt in 1678 and again in 1868–9, this time in Bath stone on a slightly narrower plan, to designs of Henry Weaver of Devizes.

Monuments in the church include, at the west end of the south aisle, a large pedimented tablet to William Ernle (d. 1581) of Etchilhampton and his wife Jone; and at the same end of the north aisle, to Sir John Ernle, 5th baronet (d. 1734) – who was rector from 1709[7] – and his wife Elizabeth.

[14] The parish war memorial, a stone wheel-head cross unveiled in 1920, stands in the churchyard by its main entrance.

[20] The barrow was designed to have a large number of private niches within the stone and earth structure, to receive cremation urns.

[23] Cliff Farmhouse is another timber-framed house from the late 16th century or early 17th, originally T in plan but now L, partly rebuilt.

[24] The former rectory, close to the church, was rebuilt in the mid-17th century and extended in the early and late 19th; the older core has a sarsen lower floor and brick upper, and limestone dressings.

Artists at the 2012 event included:[29] In 1868 Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, and his tenant farmer Simon Hiscock decided to each build a pair of semi-detached workers cottages.

All Cannings Church from the northwest
Comparable rare and pioneering concrete dwellings built before 1873 at Old Burghclere , Hampshire for the 4th Earl of Carnarvon [ 30 ]