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Netheravon
Coordinates: 51°14′13″N 1°47′24″W / 51.237°N 1.790°W
Netheravon is a village and civil parish on the River Avon and A345 road, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire, South West England. It is within Salisbury Plain.
Governance
The village is the most populous part of 'The Collingbournes and Netheravon' electoral ward. This ward starts in the west at Netheravon and then stretches east to Collingbourne Ducis and ends in the east at Chute Forest. The total population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 4,186.
Notable people
The writer Frank Sawyer (1906–1980), although born in Bulford, spent most of his life in Netheravon as a river keeper on the Avon and died on the banks of the river near the parish church. He developed the Pheasant Tail Nymph for fly fishing and wrote the books Keeper of the Stream and Nymphs and the Trout.
Notable buildings
The Anglican Church of All Saints dates from the 11th century and is Grade I listed.
Netheravon House, built in the 18th century for the Beech family and extended in 1791 by John Soane, is Grade II* listed. Evidence of a Roman villa has been found on part of its site. In 1898 Michael Hicks Beach sold the house and estate to the War Office.
