Studley, Wiltshire

Studley is a small village in the county of Wiltshire, England, in the civil parish of Calne Without.

Nearby villages include Derry Hill (close by on the other side of the A4), Bremhill, Pewsham, Stanley and Tytherton Lucas.

[1] Studley itself is mentioned in 1175 and 1196, and it was closely associated with Stanley Abbey, half a mile to the north-west in Bremhill parish, until its dissolution in 1540.

[4] Studley's manor house, north-east of the village, was lived in by members of the Hungerford family in the 18th century; it had formal gardens and stood in a small park,[4] and was destroyed by fire c.1800.

[7] The Calne branch of the Wilts & Berks Canal was built north of the village, following the far bank of the River Marden, and was fully open by 1810.

Traffic on the canal had ceased by the early years of the next century and it was formally abandoned in 1914;[8] it has been under gradual restoration since the late 1990s.

This was replaced in the early 19th century by an ashlar-faced farmhouse, with two and three storeys, a central square porch, and a wrought iron verandah along its south front.

[13] Studley was anciently part of the large parish of St Mary's Church, Calne.