What is known about Milford Hill House, which is now the Youth Hostel in Salisbury?
Milford Hill House is a Grade II Listed Building, described as a Circa 1830 villa set well back from the road, in a fine garden. However, it does not appear on G.O. Lucass 1833 map of Salisbury, so it is a little later in date than 1830. The listed building description states that there is a Very fine cedar in front of [the] house, and the tree is shown already mature on the 1854 Survey at 1:528 for the Board of Health. Unfortunately, the Census returns of 1841-1861 enumerate households in Milford either as Milford or as Milford Hill, so it is impossible from our resources to say who lived there from the earliest days and, therefore, to suggest who might have commissioned the building. However, Lucass map shows that the area where the house was to be built fell within the new city boundaries. With this knowledge it might be possible to determine from rating or electoral records in the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office who the householder was and thence to ascertain from the Census re
