Some idea of the population of the area in the 14th century is given by the number assessed as being liable to the poll tax of 1377: every lay person over the age of 14 years who was not a beggar had to pay a groat (4d) to the Crown. The number of taxpayers in Hatch, East and West (in Tisbury) was 152, and in Tisbury there were 281. The village’s 13th-century prosperity came from the quarries that produced stone for the building of Salisbury Cathedral, and from the wool that supported a local cloth industry. The village suffered a serious setback with the Black Death in the mid-14th century but slowly recovered. To the southwest of the village centre are the remains of the village of Wyck, a deserted medieval village abandoned some time in the 14th century. On John Speed’s map of Wiltshire of 1611, the village’s name is recorded as Tilburye: the cartographer or the engraver clearly having mistaken a long s for an l.