Pertwood is an ancient settlement and former parish, near Warminster in the county of Wiltshire in the west of England. Its land and houses now lie in the parishes of East Knoyle, Sutton Veny and Chicklade, and have fewer than twenty inhabitants. The settlements are close together at Upper Pertwood (also called Higher Pertwood) and Lower Pertwood. Higher Pertwood is now Pertwood Manor Farm, while Lower Pertwood is Pertwood Organic Farm. History Before the Norman Conquest, the manor of Pertwood was held by a man named Wlward. At the Domesday survey of 1086, it was held by Geoffrey de Mowbray, Bishop of Coutances, and contained two hides, of which one and a half were in demesne and the rest was held of the manor by tenants. Two villeins, three bordars, one plough, twenty acres of pasture and four of woodland were recorded. Pertwood later became a manor of the Earls of Gloucester, which it remained until the early 15th century. Pertwood Down, on high ground to the west of Pertwood, has several barrows and traces of Celtic field systems, but all such remains lie outside the area of the former parish. Just to the north of Lower Pertwood Farm, the Romans, in building a straight road, unusually diverted their road around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it. In 1829, the Roman road near Pertwood was described as "still remarkably perfect". In 1808, a topographer wrote of Pertwood that it was "...a decayed parish in the hundred of Warminster... containing 2 houses and 15 inhabitants". The Revd John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) said of Pertwood: In 1885 the parish of Pertwood was extinguished, with its southern part being added to East Knoyle, its northern part to Sutton Veny. A detailed parish history was published in 1965 by the Wiltshire Victoria County History in its volume 8. That volume recounts the owners of the manor, including John Benett of Pythouse (from 1805 to 1810) and Percy Wyndham (followed by his son and grandson, in all 1877 to 1919). Colonel Scrope Egerton owned Pertwood Manor Farm from 1945 until his death in 1986; he was married to Marjorie, a sister of John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, owner of the Fonthill House estate. Recent owners of Lower Pertwood are Mark Houghton-Brown (1982 to 2006) and Wilfred Mole (from 2006). In April 1993, the Tribal Gathering music festival