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Littlecot in Wilts County England History and GeographyLITTLECOT, a chapelry in the parish of CHILTON-FOLIATT, hundred of KINWARDSTONE, county of WILTS, 3 miles (W. by N.) from Hungerford. The population is returned with the parish. A curious tesselated pavement, the largest ever found in England, was discovered in Littlecot park, in 1730, but, unfortunately, soon destroyed: it was forty-one feet by twenty-eight in dimensions, and is supposed to have been the floor of a temple, from the two parts, the Templum and the Sacrarium, into which it was divisible. It was decorated with various devices: in the centre was a figure of Apollo with his harp, surrounded by four female figures, to represent the four seasons, with appropriate accompaniments: an accurate drawing was made of it by Mr. William George, steward to Edward Popham, Esq., who discovered it; and his widow worked a beautiful carpet, on a reduced scale, from which it was finally engraved, at the expense of the Antiquarian Society. Pickedfield, formerly part of Littlecot domain, was purchased by government, in 1803, for the purpose of establishing a dep?t for the interior of the county: it includes about forty acres of ground, on which were erected three magazines, capable of containing near eleven thousand barrels of gunpowder; also a mixing-house for the powder, storehouses, apartments for the labourers employed upon the establishment, barracks for a military detachment, and houses for a store-keeper and clerk of the cheque. At Knyghton, a small hamlet on the north bank of the Kennet, near Littlecot park, is an ancient encampment. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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