Hodson, Wiltshire

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Ordnance Survey map from 1959 showing Wroughton (C3), Burderop Park (E3) and Hodson. Grid squares are 1km.

Hodson is a hamlet in a small valley, in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, England. The hamlet lies about half a mile northwest of the edge of Chiseldon village; the M4 motorway runs a similar distance to the north, and the centre of the large town of Swindon is some Script error: No such module "convert". to the northwest.

By the 13th century, Hodson was part of Chiseldon manor.[1]

North of the hamlet is Burderop Wood, c.Script error: No such module "convert"., designated a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971 due to the wet ash-maple and acid pedunculate oak-hazel-ash woodland.[2]

Part of the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway ran close to the north part of the hamlet (grid squares E2–F2 in the image). The line was no longer used after March 1964, and part of its route through Burderop Wood was used for the M4 motorway west of junction 15 in the 1970s.

Hodson has a public house, the Calley Arms.[3]

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