OWENS DIRECTORY 1878:
BERWICK ST. JAMES is a parish and village, eight miles from Salisbury; population. 244.
The Church is dedicated to St. James.
The living is a Vicarage, value £56 per annum; patron, Lord Ashburton.
The Rev. Charles Lawford, M.A., is the Vicar.
Letters via Salisbury; the nearest Money Order office is at Wilton.
James Brown, farmer;
Robert Brown, farmer;
George Dyer, blacksmith;
Robert Keel, beer retailer;
Charles Parham, farmer;
George Windsor, draper and grocer.
KELLY’S DIRECTORY 1875
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 register dates from the year 1700. 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 soil is light and chalky; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats; the area is 2,487 acres; gross estimated rental, £2,390; rateable value, £2,122; the population in 1871 was 244.
Parish Clerk, Thomas Kitley.
Letters through Salisbury, via Wilton. The nearest money order office is at Wilton.
Church of England School (mixed), Miss Parsons, mistress.
Erlysman Charles Pinckney, Esq.
COMMERCIAL
Robert Bowns and James Bowns, farmers.
George Dyer, smith.
Robert Keel, beer retailer.
Charles Blandford Parham, farmer, Asherton Farm.
George Windsor, grocer and linen draper.
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.
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.
