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Richardson, formerly Richardston, was the most southerly settlement in Winterbourne Monkton parish. It is a deserted medieval village with some of the best preserved and most extensive village earthworks in Wiltshire. A post-conquest tun name, first recorded in 1242, it probably refers to a Richard who owned land in the parish in the late twelfth century, and so may have been established a little before 1200. A manor house, seat of the Baskerville family from 1614, existed there until the eighteenth century and its remains, including a bowling green, could still be seen in 1868.