Lake, Wiltshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lake like this:

LAKE, a tything in Wilsford parish, Wilts; on the river Avon, 2 miles SW of Amesbury. Pop., 74. Lake House is the seat of the Rev. E. Duke; 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,"

Lake through time

Lake is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lake itself, go to Statistics.

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