Lake, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Lake, a tithing in Wilsford parish, Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 2 miles SW of Amesbury. Lake House is the seat of the Duke family, was built in the time of James I., forms an excellent specimen of the architecture of that period, and contains some valuable curiosities collected by the late Mr Duke, the antiquary, author of the " Druidical Temples of Wilts," the " Halle of John Halle," &c.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lake from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lake)

Maps

Online maps of Lake are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle