Official Name: | Kingsdown |
Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | The Swan at Kingsdown - geograph.org.uk - 657946.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | The Swan, Kingsdown (2008) |
Region: | South West England |
Os Grid Reference: | ST810670 |
Post Town: | CORSHAM |
Postcode Area: | SN |
Postcode District: | SN13 |
Dial Code: | 01225 |
Coordinates: | 51.402°N -2.274°W |
Kingsdown is a hamlet in the civil parish of Box, Wiltshire, England. It is about 1.5miles south-west of Box village and 1.2miles 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,[1] latterly called Kingsdown Nursing Home.[2] 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.[3]
There is a pub, the Swan Inn. Kingsdown Golf Course is on higher ground to the east of the hamlet.