Berwick St John

Berwick St John is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Shaftesbury in Dorset.

The parish is at the head of the Ebble valley, in the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Ox Drove, a medieval drovers' road from Dorset to Salisbury, crosses the parish from west to east about a mile south of the village; most of its route survives as a track.

In the extreme west of the parish, Win Green hill, at 277 metres (909 ft), is the highest point of Cranborne Chase.

Soon after the Dissolution, Berwick St John manor was bought by Sir William Herbert (from 1551 earl of Pembroke).

[3] The Wiltshire Victoria County History traces the ownership of other estates at Bridmore, Upton Lucy and Ashcombe.

It was built in the 14th century but heavily restored in 1861 under the direction of the Gothic revival architect Henry Woodyer; the nave was lengthened and the tower re-erected.

John Warner & Sons of Cripplegate, London cast the treble and fourth bells in 1885.

[18] Land at Win Green was bought by the National Trust in 1937;[3] they provide a small car-park and describe the site as a "prominent landmark with fine views".