pre 4000 BC  - Mesolithic ... (Flint tools)
c.4200-2200 BC - Neolithic ... (Flint tools/Arrowheads)
c.2200-800 BC - Bronze Age ... (Nothing found as yet)
c.800 BC- 100 - Iron Age ... (See below)
c.43 AD-400 - Romano-British ... (Large quantity pottery and building remains)
(All the above finds are being kept/recorded at Chippenham Heritage Museum.- info thanks to Colin Stares))
. .688 King Caedwalla of Wessex
. .796 King Offa of Mercia
1086 Domesday Book - Croc the huntsman and STOCHE
1217 Forest Charter - Henry III
1425 First mention of Purytonstoke in the Bradon Forest records
1631 Poor's Platt Charity set up as gift from Charles I
1731 Nevil Maskelyne (5th Astronomer Royal) born
1735 The Poor's Platt enquiry at the Bell Inn.
1738 Inclosure awards began.
1744 Map showing houses, owners and field names
1799 Inclosure awards completed.
1819 North Wilts Canal completed
1819 Public Hanging of Robert Watkins
1838 Primitive Methodist Chapel built
1841 Enumerator's Census Return for 1841
1859 Purton Stoke Mineral Spa opened
1868 Chapel dismantled and rebuilt
1881 Census of the village
1896 School built
1912 Young Farmers' Hut built and North Wilts Canal finally abandonned
1927 Lord Ashley moves in with his bride Sylvia Hawkes
1935 Lady Ashley leaves to marry Douglas Fairbanks in Paris
1944 Purton Stoke at war
1979 Purton Stoke Fund set up
1979 Music for Living began with their first student
1981 School closed.
1985 Jubilee Gardens Project moved into the old school premises
1988 Post Office / shop closed
2000 Millennium celebrations
2001 Music for Living closed.
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