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Шаблон:Redirect Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox UK place Bremilham, also known as Cowage or Cowich, is a small settlement and former civil parish in north Wiltshire, England. It is near the hamlet of Foxley in the parish of Norton. The nearest town is Malmesbury, about Шаблон:Convert away to the north east.[1]

The place-name 'Bremilham' is first attested in 1065, as 'Bremelham', and means 'village where brambles or blackberries grew'.[2] In 1831, the population of the parish was 33. On some present-day maps, only Cowage Farm is shown.[3]

Bremilham was a small ecclesiastical parish[4] until 1893 when it was united with Foxley.[5] In 1934 Foxley (with Bremilham) was transferred to the civil parish of Norton.

Church

There was probably a chapel at Bremilham in 1179, when Amesbury Priory was granted the tithes; by 1289 there was a rector.[4] In 1874 the benefice was united with Foxley,[6] and from 1951 Foxley with Bremilham was held in plurality with that of Corston with Rodbourne.[7] Today the parish is part of the Gauzebrook group of churches.[8]

Bremilham's tiny Church of England church claims to be the smallest in England, measuring ten feet by eleven feet. It is either the surviving part of a 15th-century church (Historic England)[9] or a mid-19th century rebuild on the site of the chancel of the demolished church, for use as a mortuary chapel (Victoria County History).[4] The building was recorded as Grade II listed in 1986.[9]

One service is held each year.[10] The church has no dedication and the parish registers go back only to 1813.[11]

On 26 or 27 February 2020 the church bell, which used to hang on an oak beam inside the church, was stolen.[12]

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