Fisherton de la Mere, also spelt Fisherton Delamere, is a small village and former civil parish on the River Wylye, Wiltshire, England. The village lies just off the A36, midway between Salisbury and Warminster, each about distant. The parish came to an end in 1934 and was divided between Wylye and Stockton, the latter gaining the hamlet of Bapton while the village of Fisherton de la Mere retained a separate identity within Wylye. History In the Domesday Book of 1086, the settlement name is spelt Fisertone and there were 42 households and a mill. The estate was held by Roger de Corcelle, alongside Curry Mallet in Somerset. The ancient parish of Fisherton de la Mere formed a detached part of the Warminster hundred of Wiltshire. It contained two villages, Fisherton itself, to the north of the River Wylye, and Bapton, about a mile away and to the south of the river, and covered 2,834 acres, of which 1,660 were in Fisherton. The civil parish was extinguished in 1934, when Fisherton was transferred to Wylye, and Bapton to Stockton. The former parish was a rough oblong stretching both north and south up into the downland on each side of the river, each slope running down from an altitude of about 600 feet. At the south is a level area called the Bake. On the north-east the parish boundary ran along the old road from Chitterne to Stapleford, on the south along Grim's Dyke, an ancient earthwork, while on the south-west the boundary cut through a combe, Roakham Bottom. A schoolroom was built in 1865 just west of the church, attached to an 18th-century cottage, and was later supported by the National Society. Attendance had dwindled to 15 by 1922, and the school was closed. Almost the whole of the village was designated as a Conservation Area in 1975. A detailed parish history was published in 1965 by the Wiltshire Victoria County History. Landowners The name Delamere, Delamare, or de la Mere, refers to the family of Nunney Castle, Somerset, who owned the manor in the Middle Ages, and whose name was spelt in all of those ways. The last of the family was Sir John Delamare (c. 1320–1383). When his niece and heiress Eleanor Delamare died in 1413, Fisherton passed into the Paulet family and thus to the William Paulet who was Lord Chamberlain and Secretary of State to Henry VIII,