Original station name boards from Manningford Halt and Wootton Rivers Halt can be found in the Pewsey Heritage Centre along with several other local railway items.
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Burbage stands on a watershed at the eastern end of the Vale of Pewsey, with streams to the east draining to the Thames via the Dun and Kennet; to the south draining to the Salisbury Avon via the River Bourne, and to the north and west into the Salisbury Avon itself.
He married Augusta Frushard (1820; Lambeth - 1902; Lincoln), youngest daughter of Philip Frushard (13 October 1783 India - 5 July 1837 Durham), the Governor of Durham Gaol, and Anna Maria Pewsey his wife, on 8 July 1851 at St. Paul's Church, Deptford, Kent.
Joseph Townsend (April 4, 1739 – November 9, 1816) was a physician, geologist and vicar of Pewsey in Wiltshire, perhaps best known for his 1786 treatise A Dissertation on the Poor Laws in which he expounded a naturalistic theory of economics and opposed the provision of 'outdoor' relief to the able bodied poor under English Poor Laws thus anticipating the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.
Pewsey Station is mentioned in the December 2005 film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Economic issues during the Great Depression in the 1920s caused the Pewsey Vale winery to go downhill, which eventually led to a long period of abandonment.