Category: Villages, Towns and Places

Information, illustrations and images – including gleanings, parish records, and references to people – for some of the villages and town and places, particularly in the rural areas around Warminster, Wiltshire.

Upton Scudamore Burials, 1845 – 1849

Burials at Upton Scudamore, 1845 – 1849

Arranged alphabetically by surname:

EDWARD BROWN, of Norridge, aged 81 years, 16 April 1846.

ELIZA BROWN, aged 24 years, 17 April 1847.

JOHN CARPENTER, of this parish, aged 1 year, 26 September 1848.

SARAH CARPENTER, of Biss, aged 10 weeks, 2 October 1849.

RUTH CARR, of this parish, aged 75 years, 8 October 1847.

CHARLES LAMBERT TREE CHISLETT, of this parish, aged 37 years, 3 June 1846.

EMILY DANIELLS, of this parish, aged 1½ years, 29 July 1846.

GEORGE DANIELLS, of Norridge, aged 15 years, 20 December 1849.

ROSANNA FANNY DANIELS, of this parish, aged 8 weeks, 3 February 1848.

ANN DUNFORD, of this parish, aged 31 years, 14 April 1845.

CHARLES DUNFORD, of this parish, aged 11 years, 7 April 1847.

ELIZABETH DUNFORD, of this parish, aged 6 years, 27 September 1846.

ELNOR DUNFORD, of this parish, aged 9 weeks, 10 March 1849.

GEORGE DUNFORD, of this parish, aged 56 years, 4 April 1847.

WILLIAM DUNFORD, of this parish, aged 41 years, 28 November 1848.

WILLIAM DUBFORD, of this parish, aged 38 years, 5 May 1849.

JAMES FOWLER, of Thoulstone, aged 62 years, 5 April 1846.

MARY HAINES, of this parish, aged 70 years, 27 December 1846.

MARY HAINES, of Lavington, aged 75 years, 1 December 1848.

JOHN HAYNES, of this parish, aged 71 years, 15 January 1848.

GEORGE HORNE, of this parish, aged 35 years, 11 May 1849.

ELIZA JONES, of this parish, aged 20 years, 5 January 1848.

WILLIAM LEWIN, of Westbury, aged 35 years, 1847.

HANNAH MANDELL, of this parish, aged 83 years, 15 January 1848.

AMELIA MARTIN, of Biss, aged 84 years, 5 January 1845.

WILLIAM MASLEN, of Rudge, aged 53 years, 24 April 1849.

DEBNAH PEARCE, of Boreham, aged 82 years, 4 January 1848.

MARIA PEARCE, of this parish, aged 3 years, 17 November 1848.

MARY PEARCE, of Bishopstrow, aged 43 years, 6 February 1849.

BENJAMIN PLAYER, of Norridge, aged 48 years, 18 July 1847.

HENRY POCOCK, of Thoulstone, aged 42 years, 29 June 1846.

CORNELIUS SCULLY, of Norridge, aged 35 years, 25 September 1849.

MARIA SINGLER, of this parish, aged 47 years, 6 November 1848.

RUTH SINGLER, of Warminster, aged 80 years, 1847.

ANN SNELGROVE, of Field more (Fullmore), aged 85 years, 17 August 1845.

REBECCA TURNER, of Trowbridge, aged 47 years, 17 February 1846.

JOHN WHATLEY, of Biss, aged 41 years, 19 January 1849.

LOUISA WHATLEY, of this parish, aged 20 years, 27 May 1848.

MARY WHATLEY, of Norridge, aged 74 years, 1847.

Berwick St. James Directory 1848

KELLY’S DIRECTORY 1848

Berwick St. James, a village 7 miles north-west from Salisbury, and 93 miles from London, in the Hundred of Branch and Dole, and Wilton Union; the population in 1841 was 250, extending over 2,492 acres. Lord Ashburton is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage, value £54, in the gift of Lord Ashburton; the Rev. Charles Lawford, M.A., incumbent. The church is in the early English style, wity Norman square tower, and 5 bells; it is dedicated to St. James. Near this place are the entrenchments called Yarnborough Castle.

Gentry:

Erlysman Charles Pinckney, esq.

Traders:

Robert Downs, farmer.
George Dyer, blacksmith.
Mrs. Jane Gilbert, grocer and draper.
William Kyte, Boot Inn.
James Morris, grocer.
George Tabor, famer.
John Tucker, farmer.

Letters sent from South Newton.

Stapleford ~ Kelly’s Directory 1848

Stapleford, in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire.

Kelly’s Directory 1848
Stapleford is a village 7 miles north-west from Salisbury, 4 north-west from Wilton, and 89 from London, in the Hundred of Branch and Dole, and Wilton Union. The population, in 1841, was 296; and the village extends over 2,000 acres of arable and meadow land; the lords of the manor are Lord Ashburton and Henry Seymour, Esq. The church, which is handsome, is built in the Norman style, with a square tower, and 5 bells; it was repaired 5 years ago. The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Deans and Canons of Windsor, value £110; Rev. John Matthews, M.A., vicar; Rev. John Phelps, M.A., curate.

Miss Catherine Baker, farmer.
James Barnett, carrier.
Uriah Barnett, farmer.
Thomas Beckett, Pelican Inn.
William Brown, farmer.
John Coombes, farmer.
Henry Cox, grocer &c.

Herbert Dredge, farmer.William Gamblin, New Inn.
Rev. John Matthews, M.A., Vicar.
Rev. John Phelps, M.A., curate.
Charles Saph, senior, farmer.
Charles Saph, junior, farmer.
Elias Saph, farmer.
James Saph, farmer.
James Williams, grocer and seedsman.

Letters are received through South Newton from Salisbury.

There are three coaches per day, pass through from Salisbury to Bath, to meet the trains.

Carrier to Salisbury – James Barnett, Tuesday and Friday.

Heytesbury – Information From An 1848 Directory

1848

Heytesbury, in the Hundred of its name and Warminster Poor Law Union, is distant 92 miles south-west from London, 18 north-west from Salisbury, and 4 south-east from Warminster; it is a small but agreeable town, situated on the banks of the Wiley [Wylye] and borders of Salisbury Plain, consisting principally of one street, and contains a hospital or almshouse of very ancient foundation for 12 poor men, one woman, and a custos, who must be in Holy Orders, and act as chaplain.

The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is collegiate, and possesses four prebends in Salisbury Cathedral; it is cruciform in plan, and consists of chancel, nave, and two aisles, the chancel of Early English, and the rest principally in the decorated style of architecture; the tower contains 6 bells. The living is a perpetual curacy, of £131 annual value, and in the presentation of the bishop.

Heytesbury is a prescriptive borough, governed by a bailiff and burgesses, and enjoyed a double representation till disfranchised by the Reform Act.

The market is discontinued, but an annual fair is still held on the 14th May.

Near the town is Heytesbury House, the seat of Lord Heytesbury, a title conferred on Sir William a’Court in 1828; the house was rebuilt about 1784, and the grounds are extensive.

On Cotley Hill, north-west of the town, is a tumulus, surrounded by an intrenchment 480 feet in diameter, and on the summit of another hill, at no great distance, is Scratchbury camp, above a mile in circumference; about 2 miles north-east is Knooke castle, an earthwork similarly situated.

On Knooke down, the sites of two British villages are indicated by indubitable signs of early habitation, and connected by Old Ditch, probably a British road running from Westbury Leigh to Durnford on the Avon.

About a ¼ of a mile from Knooke castle is Bowls Barrow, and on the north bank of the Wiley, Golden Barrow.

Here is a place of worship for the Independents, and a National School.

Population, in 1841, was 1,311; area in acres, 5,237.

Heytesbury Directory 1848

Directory for Heytesbury, 1848

Gentry
Robert Baker, esq.
Joseph Everett, esq.
Rt. Hon. Lord Heytesbury, Heytesbury House.
Rev. John Knight, M.A., perpetual curate & chaplain of hospital.
Mrs. Prangley.
Thomas Prangley, esq.
Rev. James Tate.

Traders
James Bartlett, grocer & tea dealer & agent to Crown Life & Phoenix fire offices.
William Batchelor, baker & shopkeeper.
John Carpenter, baker & grocer.
Isaac Compton, Red Lion Inn.
John Compton, plumber, painter & glazier, & post office.
Richard Dann, butcher.
William George Davis, surgeon.
William Dew, coal dealer & farmer.
Wm. Dunford, carpenter & beer retailer.
Thomas Evans, beer retailer.
George Fielding, tailor.
John Garrett, blacksmith.
Robert & James Gibbs, millers.
Thomas Gilbert, baker.
Thomas Green, boot & shoe maker.
Thomas Harris Langley, butcher.
Mrs Susan Lockley, Unicorn.
John Marsh, farmer.
Benjamin Moody, smith & farrier.
John Muspratt, boot & shoe maker.
Josiah Muspratt, tailor.
George Noble, tailor.
Peter Parry, farmer.
Chas. & Joseph Peirson, linen & woollen drapers, hatters, general clothiers & grocers.
Jon Peirson, baker.
John Pearse Prangley, solicitor & agent to Royal Farmers’ fire & life office.
John Rowden, academy.
John Sainsbury, beer retailer & millwright.
Wm. Sainsbury, boot & shoe maker.
Richard Smith, farmer.
John Snelgrove, undertaker.
William Snelgrove, maltster.
William Stocker, Angel.
William Cleveland Swayne, surgeon.
Robert Whatley, parish clerk.
George Michael White, farmer.
John Young, tailor.

Chilmark Directory 1848

Chilmark is a pleasant village in a parish of the same name, situated a short distance to the left of the turn-pike road leading from Salisbury to Hindon. The hamlet of Ridge, situated in a deep hollow one mile south of the village, is in the same parish, and contains only a few scattered houses. Here are great quarries of free-stone, which have been worked for many centuries past, and with which the churches and other buildings in the southern parts of Wilts, as also in the parts of Dorsetshire bordering on this locality, are built. The walls, buttresses, and other substantial parts of Salisbury Cathedral, are constructed of Chilmark stone.

Most of this parish is the property of the Earl of Pembroke, who is also lord of the manor. The acreage is 3.032; the population 593. It is in the Tisbury Union, the Hindon division, and the Dunworth Hundred, 12 miles west of Salisbury, 4 east of Hindon; on the south side of, and at a short distance from the church, is an ancient building, now converted into a barn, probably the remnant of some monastic erection once attached to the Abbey of Wilton. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Sarum, and valued at £426, in the gift of the Earl of Pembroke. The present incumbent is the Rev. Charles Tower, M.A.

The church, dedicated to Saint Margaret, is a cruciform structure; has a nave and chancel, and a well-built tower (containing 4 bells), crowned with a handsome spire. On the north side of the chancel is an ancient doorway, now closed up, formed by a Norman arch. The interior is exceedingly clean, of light appearance, and the nave has several sharply-pointed arches; the roof of the belfry beneath the tower is deeply groined, and there are two narrow lancet windows very much bevelled from the interior so as to be only a few inches in width on the exterior. Beneath a pointed arch, in the south wall of the chancel, is a Piscina, in a good state of preservation, discovered during the progress of some repairs recently effected. In the chancel there is a beautifully painted window, divided into three compartments: to the right is St. Peter, on the left St. John, in the centre the Saviour.

There is a National School, supported by the rector and the Earl of Pembroke.

Gentry:
Frederick King, esq.
Rev. Charles Tower, M.A., Rectory.

Traders:
William Baker, blacksmith.
William Bennett, farmer.
Mrs. Jane Bowles, post office.
Richard Burridge, parish clerk.
Miss Eliza Clark, mistress of National School.
John Cox, miller, Chilmark Mill.
William Flower, farmer, Rudge.
Thomas Fricker, farmer, Rudge.
William Fricker, “Black Dog’.
George Harvey, brickmaker and beer retailer, Rudge.
Eliza Jukes, shopkeeper.
George Lane, farmer and quarry master.
Thomas Warne, farmer.
Sarah Young, farmer.

Post Office – Mrs. Jane Bowles, receiver. Letters arrive from Salisbury at 7 a.m., dispatched at 7 p.m.

National School, Miss Eliza Clark, mistress.

Longbridge Deverill – Kelly’s Directory 1848

Longbridge Deverill, Kelly’s Directory 1848

Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton, a parish in South Damerham Hundred and Warminster Union, 3 miles south from Warminster, 4 miles west from from Heytesbury, and 8 south-east from Frome. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, and the patronage of the Marquis of Bath, to whom the manor belongs; the Hon. And Rev. Lord Charles Thynne, M.A., is the present incumbent. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is very ancient, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel; in it is a mausoleum, the burial-place of the Bath family. Here are also National schools for boys and girls, a place of worship for Primitive Methodists, and almshouses for six men and two women.

Longleat House, in this parish, was erected on the site of a priory of Black Canons, by Sir John Thynne; the foundation was laid in January, 1567, and 12 years were spent before it was completed; it is traditionally asserted that the model was obtained from Italy, and that John of Padua was the architect. The house is spacious and magnificent, standing in a park 12 miles in circumference, watered by a branch of the river Frome, well-stocked with timber, amidst pleasant woods and scenery, with wide prospects over the adjacent country. Sir John Thynne, the founder, died in 1580, and was buried in the church of this parish, where a monument was erected to his memory in the chancel; at the time of his decease part of the interior was left unfinished, and his son did not live to complete the works; his descendant, Thomas Thynne, who was shot in his coach in Pall Mall in 1682, formed the road to Frome, which is planted with elms, and the whole was completed by the first Viscount Weymouth. Alterations were made in the disposition of the grounds by Thomas, third Viscount Weymouth, when the gardens were remodelled by Brown. The late Marquis of Bath built the northern front, from designs by Sir Jeffery Wyatville, and the mansion now forms a parallelogram, 220 feet by 180 in dimension, built entirely of freestone, and with a principal entrance on the southern front; the hall is grand and imposing in appearance, rising to the height of two stories; the ceiling is flat, with spandrel brackets and pendants, and at the lower end is a richly-carved screen; the staircase contains a central flight of oaken steps, ten feet wide, with two returns, and is adapted to the style and magnitude of the building; it is lighted by an octagonal lantern, 15 feet in diameter, rising from a covered ceiling, enriched with arabesque foliage. The height of the ground floor is 15 feet, the next 18, and the third storey 12 feet. A fine collection of family portraits adorns the principal apartments.

Population of Longbridge Deverill, with Crockerton, in 1841, 1,352; area in acres 4,142. Crockerton shear water lake 40 acres in extent, is on the domain of the Marquis of Bath.

GENTRY:

The Most Hon., the Marquis of Bath, Longleat House.

Rev. T. Carey (Curate).

The Hon. and Rev. Lord Charles Thynne, M.A. (Vicar).

TRADERS:

John Charlton, farmer and shopkeeper.

Thomas Charlton, farmer.

William Charlton, “George’.

George Dyer, butter dealer and carrier.

George Lampard, farmer.

Thomas Maxfield, farmer.

Thomas Millard, farmer.

George Mitchell, farmer and shopkeeper and post office.

William Noakes, tailor.

Mrs. Susannah Parker, blacksmith.

Thomas Payne, shopkeeper.

Andrew Pearce, farmer.

John Pitman, boot and shoe maker.

John Randall, farmer.

Egbert Smith, blacksmith.

Henry Smith, builder and carpenter.

George Snelgrove, farmer.

Stephen Snelgrove, farmer and shopkeeper.

Philip Stride, farmer.

John Turner, tailor and beer retailer.

Post Office – George Mitchell, receiver. Letters arrive by messenger from Warminster at 9 a.m., are dispatched at 5 p.m.

National School, Samuel Mifflin, master; Miss Susan Dunford, mistress.

Carrier – Dyer’s cart to Trowbridge, through Warminster and Westbury, Monday and Friday; Wincanton Wednesday; Shaftesbury, Saturday.

Berwick St. Leonard Directory 1848

Kelly’s Directory 1848, Berwick St. Leonard:

Berwick St. Leonard, a parish in the Hundred of Dunworth, 15 miles west of Salisbury, and 1 mile north of Hindon, contains 46 inhabitants, and is in the Union of Tisbury. The living is a rectory, value £350, in the gift of the Marquis of Westminster, in the diocese of Sarum; the incumbent is the Rev. C.H. Grove, M.A., of Sedgehill; the Rev. William Bedford, M.A., is the curate. The church has been slightly repaired, it has a tower with 2 bells. The children of the parish attend the National school at Fonthill Bishop. James Morrison, Esq., is the lord of the manor. Here are ruins of the old Manor House, formerly seat of the Howe family; the Prince of Orange slept here after his landing at Torbay, on his way to London. A sheep and horse fair is held on Berwick Down November 6th.

William Blandford, farmer.
John Grey, parish clerk.
Stephen Welch, farmer.

Letters received through the Hindon office.

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