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Kingsdown is a hamlet in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west of Box village and 1.2 miles (1.9 km) east of Bathford, across the county border in Somerset.
At the top of Doctor's Hill, Kingsdown House is a three-storey ashlar house from the early 18th century; its formal front with parapet and corner urns was embellished in the 19th century with a Corinthian porch and a roof-height clock. There was a private asylum here from the 17th century to the mid-20th, latterly called Kingsdown Nursing Home. The house and its adjacent 19th-century buildings are now in residential use.
A Methodist chapel was built in 1869 and rebuilt in 1926. By 2003 it was a private house.
There is a pub, the Swan Inn. Kingsdown Golf Course is on higher ground to the east of the hamlet.
References
External links
Media related to Kingsdown, Box at Wikimedia Commons
"Box". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
The Swan Inn – Box People and Places, 2018
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