Category: Gazetteer

A geographical dictionary providing reference information about places and place names in Warminster and other civil parishes in the surrounding area.

Middle Mead On A Map Of 1835

A piece of land with the name Middle Mead is numbered 16 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

16
Premises: Middle Mead.
Occupier: John Lush.
State: w mead [water meadow].
Measure: 5 acres, 1 rood, 32 perches.
Parish: Warminster.

George Mead On A Map Of 1835

A piece of land with the name George Mead is numbered 18 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

18
Premises: George Mead (including water).
Occupier: John Lush.
State: meadow.
Measure: 2 acres, 3 roods, 13 perches.
Parish: Warminster.

Ferris’s Ground On A Map Of 1835

A piece of land with the name Ferris’s Ground is numbered 17 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

17
Premises: Ferris’s Ground
Occupier: John Lush.
State: Pasture.
Measure: 11 acres, 1 rood, 32 perches.
Parish: Warminster.

Eliot’s Ground On A Map Of 1835

A piece of land with the name Eliot’s Ground is numbered 4 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

4
Premises: Eliot’s Ground
Occupier: Joseph Reddrop. Lease.
State: Pasture.
Measure: 3 acres, 1 rood, 33 perches.
Parish: Warminster.

An additional note (handwritten) reads: “on lives”.

Woodyear’s On A Map Of 1835

A piece of land with the name Woodyear’s is numbered 11 on a map of the Eastleigh and Warminster estates of Sir John Dugdale Astley in Warminster, Bishopstrow, Sutton Veny, Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore. This map, dated 1835, is in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN.  (reference 3330/2L).

A key at the base of the map gives the following details:

11
Premises: Woodyear’s (held under the Marquess of Bath).
Occupier: John Lush.
State: w mead [water meadow].
Measure: 2 acres, 2 roods, 0 perches.
Parish: Warminster.

Lease, Roofless Tenement And Orchard Called Cloudes, Over Whitbourne, With Rill Close, A Messuage Called Coombs In Over Whitbourne, Parrock Or Roppett, Ballhayes, An Allotment In Clayfield, And A Toft Of A Cottage, Corsley, 1833

WILTSHIRE

Corsley

30 March 1833

Lease.

A roofless tenement and orchard called ‘CLOUDEs’ in Over Whitbourne, with pasture called Rill Close now divided in to two closes, a messuage in Over Whitbourne called formerly COOMBS’, a close called Parrock or Roppett, a close of pasture called Ballhayes, an allotment in Clayfield, and the toft of a cottage formerly in the tenure of Elizabeth CANDY but now demolished.

2nd Marquess to Thomas SILCOX, yeoman.

Written on the cover: ‘Old survey page 23 & 30’, ‘Rough survey page 118’.

Meeting House Certificate ~ A House And Premises In Meeting House Lane, Warminster

Entry No.695 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

26 Nov 1810 (1 Dec 1810). Warminster. A house and premises thereunto belonging in Meeting House Lane. Baptist. William Jutson, William Hinton, Thomas Hardish, William Cottle, William Scammell, James Hinton (WRO D1/9/2/4)

Meeting House Certificate ~ New-Built Chapel At Chain Street, Warminster

Entry No.622 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

10 July 1804 (28 July 1804). Warminster. A new-built chapel situated in Chain Street. Methodist. Thomas King, James Ludlow, John Gregory, William Jervis. (WRO D1/2/29)

Meeting House Certificate ~ The Old Meeting House, Meeting House Lane, Warminster

Entry No.572 in Wiltshire Dissenters’ Meeting House Certificates And Registrations 1689-1852, edited by J.H. Chandler, published by Wiltshire Record Society, 1985:

20 Dec 1799 (21 Dec 1799). Warminster. The register or licence of our meeting house, called the Old Meeting House in Meeting House Lane, erected in or about the year 1704, which was taken out by and granted to our predecessors about that time, is mislaid or lost. Presbyterian. Thomas Hinton, George Wansey, William Wansey, P. Warren, Edmund Halliday, housekeepers in Warminster. (WRO D1/2/29).

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