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Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« on: Friday 01 May 15 13:00 BST (UK) »
Can someone please point me in the direction of info on how this place got its name?  Presumably there was once a theatre there before it became residential

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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #1 on: Friday 01 May 15 18:09 BST (UK) »
Someone on here may be able to help?

http://www.ramsbury.org/community/oralhistory/

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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #2 on: Friday 01 May 15 19:00 BST (UK) »
I'd be very interested too. It appears that the original London to Bath road ran through Ramsbury. It was even a bishopric and the Bishop of Ramsbury title still exists under the Bishop of Salisbury.
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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #4 on: Friday 01 May 15 19:11 BST (UK) »
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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #5 on: Friday 01 May 15 19:20 BST (UK) »
Well, that must be it. Strange though, Aldbourne and Ramsbury are not the same place. Searches brings up Old Theatre Ramsbury properties for sale. 
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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #6 on: Friday 01 May 15 20:04 BST (UK) »
It's probably not! I got carried away. I did wonder whether there might have been a theatre of sorts when the American army was in Ramsbury in WW11.
 
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 SOUL;-Gloucestershire.
 SANSUM;-Berkshire-Wiltshire
 BASSON-BASTON;- Berkshire,- Oxfordshire.
 BRIDGES;- Wiltshire.
 DOWDESWELL;-Wiltshire,Gloucestershire
 JORDAN;- Berkshire.
 COX;- Berkshire.
 GOUDY;- Suffolk.
 CHATFIELD;-Sussex-- London
 MORGAN;-Blaenavon-Abersychan
 FISHER;- Berkshire.
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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #7 on: Friday 01 May 15 20:15 BST (UK) »
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Re: Old Theatre Place, Ramsbury
« Reply #8 on: Friday 01 May 15 20:22 BST (UK) »
Also an airfield just north of Ramsbury with American C47 transports and gliders for D-Day invasion. The basic question here is valid.

This whole thing becomes very interesting. Today Ramsbury is a little town off the beaten track and no apparent reason for it's existence. However, if it was on the London to Bath road in the past, then something quite different. Looking at the current AA road map, it makes sense. Hungerford, a much larger town is orientated north to south not east - west as the Bath road.   
Griffiths Llandogo, Mitcheltroy, Mon. and Whitchurch Here (Also Edwards),  18th C., Griffiths FoD 19th Century.