Category: Villages, Towns and Places

Kelly’s Directory For Codford, 1848

Codford St. Mary, a village on the banks of the Wiley, and on the road from Salisbury to Frome, in the Hundred of Heytesbury and Union of Warminster, distant 7 and a half miles south-east from Warminster, 15 north-west from Salisbury, and 3 and a half from Heytesbury. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, value £306, and in the patronage of St. John’s College, Oxford; the Rev. Geo. Mountjoy Webster, D.D., is the present incumbent. The church is in the perpendicular style of architecture. On the summit of Codford Hill, in this parish, is Ogbury Camp, an earthwork forming a complete circle, and surrounded by a vallum, and fosse, constructed with great regularity. Near it is the supposed site of a large British settlement, covering several acres of ground. There is a place of worship for Independents. The manor belongs to Harry Biggs, Esq., of Stockton House. Population in 1841, 338; area in acres, 1,445.

Codford St. Peter is a parish adjoining the above, and situated in the same Hundred and Union. The living is a rectory, in the archedeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, value £380, and in the patronage of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Rev. Henry Wightwick, M.A., is the present incumbent. A National school-house has recently been erected at the expense of Wadham Locke, sq., of Ashton House, in this parish. Population in 1841, including the hamlet of Ashton, 394; acreage, 1,611.

Codford St. Mary, Gentry:

Captain Potts.

Mrs. Sturgess.

Rev. George Mountjoy Webster, D.D. Rectory.

Codford St. Mary, Traders:

John Becket, basket maker.

John Bendall, saddle and harness maker and post office.

William Bennett, farmer.

Matthew Fidler, shopkeeper.

Richard Fry, shopkeeper and blacksmith.

James Goodfellow, baker.

Thomas Hinwood, blacksmith.

Luke Moody, carrier.

William Morgan, shoemaker and parish clerk.

Joseph Mould, shopkeeper and baker.

George Norton, plumber, painter and glazier.

Anthony Notley, farmer.

Thomas Perrior and John Perrior, sieve makers.

Charles Sparey, baker and carrier.

Richard Sturgess, carrier.

Codford St. Peter, Gentry:

Miss Crouch.

Mrs Davis.

Wadham Locke, Esq. Ashton House.

Thomas Slade Whiting, Esq., farmer.

Rev. Henry Wightwick, M.A., Rectory.

Codford St. Peter, Traders:

William Barnes, tailor.

John Brind, George Inn.

John Chisman, farmer.

Thomas Feltham, butcher.

John Fitz, grocer and draper.

Isaac Flower, surgeon and registrar of births and deaths for Heytesbury district.

William Head, parish clerk.

Charles Hinton, tailor.

James Raxworthy, farmer and woolstapler.

William Scammel, shopkeeper, baker, beer retailer and carrier.

William Snow, stationer.

Mrs. Elizabeth Sturgess, dressmaker.

Richard Sturgess, carpenter.

William Viney, carrier.

William Watts, boot and shoe maker.

Post Office – John Bendall, receiver. Letters arrive by messenger from Heytesbury at 9 a.m., are dispatched at 5 p.m.

National School, Mrs. Smith, mistress.

Coaches:- To Salisbury (from Bath), Rocket, calls at “George,’ at half past 12, returns 1 p.m. daily, Sundays except.

To Salisbury (from Frome), Swiftshure, calls at “George’ at 10 a.m., returns 3 p.m. daily, Sundays excepted.

Carriers:- Sparey’s cart to Salisbury, Tuesdays; Hindon, Thursdays; Warminster, Saturday.

Moody’s cart to Salisbury, Tuesdays; Hindon, Thursdays.