KELLY’S DIRECTORY 1867 – Berwick St. James
Berwick St. James is a parish and village in the Southern division of the county, Salisbury county court district, hundred of Branch and Dole, Wilton union, diocese and archdeaconry of Salisbury, and rural deanery of Wylye, 8 miles north-west from Salisbury, and 103 from London. The church of St. James is in the Early English style and consists of one aisle and chancel, with Norman square tower and 4 bells. The living is a vicarage, value £54, in the gift of Lord Ashburton, and held by the Rev. Charles Lawford, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here is a Church of England mixed school. Two miles west are the entrenchments called Yarnborough Castle. Lord Ashburton is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The population in 1861 was 252, extending over 2,487 acres.
Isherton is a quarter of a mile north-east; Uppington, half a mile south.
Parish Clerk, Jonathan Blanchard.
Letters through Salisbury, via Wilton. The nearest money order office is Wilton.
Church of England School (mixed), Miss Eliza Ponting, mistress.
Erlysman Charles Pinckney, Esq.
Mrs. Tucker.
Robert Bowns, farmer.
George Dyer, smith.
Charles Kyte, beer retailer and shoemaker.
Charles Blandford Parham, farmer, Asherton Farm.
George Windsor, grocer and linen draper.