page_title: Manningford
section_title: Swanborough Tump
hierarchical_section_title: Manningford / Swanborough Tump
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilcot, Swanborough Tump
context_page_description: Manningford is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Manningford Abbots, Manningford Bohune and Manningford Bruce, and the hamlet of Manningford Bohune Common, together known as the Manningfords.
  The parish is in the Vale of Pewsey which carries the upper section of the Salisbury Avon. Pewsey is about 2 miles to the northeast; the nearest towns are Marlborough, 8 miles northeast, and Devizes, 9 miles to the west. The parish is long and narrow in shape, stretching from the Salisbury Avon valley in the northwest to higher downland towards Upavon, on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. The A345 Pewsey–Upavon road passes to the south of the three villages.
context_section_description: The ancient parishes of Abbots and Bruce, and possibly Bohune, were within Swanborough Hundred. One of the hundred's meeting-places was Swanborough Tump, a low earthwork in the north of Abbots parish, near the boundary with Wilcot. The site, now a scheduled monument, is described in the Victoria County History as a bowl barrow but more recently by Historic England as a medieval construction. The tump was on an important east-west road.
  In the 20th century a stone with plaques was erected at the roadside near the tump, next to an unidentified older stone.
caption: Markers near Swanborough Tump
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