Category: Great Wishford: Records Directories

Owen’s Directory, Great Wishford, 1878:

Wishford is a parish and village six miles from Salisbury, population, 381. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. The living is a rectory, value £450 per annum; patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The Rev. Ecdward Hill, M.A., is the rector. Letters via Wilton, which is the nearest Money Order office.

Joseph Adams, carpenter.
Thomas Andrews, farmer.
John – , farmer, Little Wishford.
George Goulden, coal merchant.

Joseph Higgins, farmer.
Edmund Robinson, grocer.
Robert Saunders, farmer.
Henry Scamell, tailor.
Joseph Scamell, carpenter.

Richard Scamell, shopkeeper.
Frederick Shergold, shopkeeper.
James Thatcher, farmer.
Francis Tutt, butcher.

Wishford (or Great Wishford) is a parish, village, and railway station, on the Great Western line, on the Wiley stream, in the Southern division of the county, Branch and Dole hundred, Wilton union, and parliamentary borough, Salisbury county court district, diocese and archdeaconry of Salisbury, and rural deanery of Wylye, 3 miles north from Wilton, 6 north-west from Salisbury, and 102 from London.

The church of St. Giles is an ancient Gothic structure, completely restored in 1864: it consists of nave, chancel, north and south aisle, and has a square embattled tower with eight pinnacles and 5 bells: the interior contains a very handsome monument to Sir Richard Grobham. The earliest register bears date 1558. The living is a rectory, gross annual value £430, with residence and 13 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Earl of Pembroke, and held by the Rev. Thomas Boughton Buchanan, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford.

Sir Richard Grobham, formerly a lord of the manor, bequeathed, in 1628, four almshouses, allowing 6s. 6d. per week to each inmate. There is £250 bequeathed by Daniel Oland, the interest of which is applied to binding poor apprentices and purchasing them tools, with a present to ten poor people at Christmas Eve. The late rector (Rev. F. Williams) has also bequeathed £250, the interest to be bestowed upon ten poor people on Christmas Eve.

The Earl of Pembroke is lord of the manor, and owns the entire parish. The soil is clay, gravel, and chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, and oats. The area is 1,610 acres, and the population in 1861 was 381.

Post Office – Richard Scamell, receiver. Letters arrive from Wilton at 7.30 a.m.; delivered at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Wilton.

Endowed School, James Goulden, master; Mrs. Ann Goulden, mistress.

Carriers to Salisbury – Elias Cannings and Frederick Goodfellow, Tuesday and Saturday.

Rev. Thomas Boughton Buchanan, M.A. (Rector).

Mr. James Cooper.
Mr. Robert Webb.
Thomas Andrews, farmer, and at South Newton.
John Boon, butcher.

Elias Cannings, baker and carrier.
William Cooper, bricklayer.
Josiah Ewence, smith.
Frederick Ford, farmer, Little Wishford.

Frederick Goodfellow, shopkeeper and carrier.
George Goulden, coal merchant.
William Hayter, blacksmith.
Joseph Higgins, farmer.

John Plowman, bricklayer.
Robert Saunders, farmer and maltster.
Joseph Scamell, carpenter and wheelwright.
Richard Scamell, shopkeeper and post office.

Frederick Shergold, Royal Oak and farmer.
Miss Emma Amelia Spender, farmer.
John Trubridge, farmer and maltster.
Reuben Young, baker and farmer.

Wishford Magna, or Great Wishford, a village 7 miles north-west of Salisbury, 90 from London, situated in the Hundred of Branch and Dole, and Wilton Union. The river Wily passes through it. The acreage is 1,609 acres 2 roods 26 perches, and the population in 1841 was 358. Earl of Pembroke, lord of the manor.

The living is a rectory, value £466 10s. The Rev. Frederick Decker Williams, M.A., incumbent.

The church is dedicated to St. Giles, and is in a mixed style of architecture, the greater part Gothic, with a square tower and 5 bells; near the communion table is a splendid monument to Sir Richard Grobham, and his wife, who died in 1629; the figures are represented lying at full length, the faces being upwards; the knight is in armour, except the helmet; his head rests on a marble pillow, richly gilt, and his hand across his breast, clasping a book; there is a boar’s head at the foot; the arch, made in the wall, as well as the base, is composed of a splendid stone, supported by black marble pillars, and surrounded by cherubin; the Lady is enveloped in a black mantle, leaving the face and hands exposed; it is said to have cost upwards of £2,000, and was thoroughly repaired in 1805 by the executors of the Right Hon. John, Lord Chedworth, then lord of the manor. The knight to whom this was erected, left 60 acres of land for the endowment of almshouses for four poor persons chosen out of the parish.

In the nave of the church is a great marble stone, bearing the dates 1469 and 1473, and the name of an ancestor of one of the Bonhams; some years back their portraits, in brass, were on the head of the stone; beneath the inscription are the small figures of nine children, also in brass. There are also two stone monuments in the nave of the church to him and his lady.

There is a school for 20 boys and 20 girls endowed by Sir Richard Howe.

Rev. Frederick DeckerWilliams, M.A.

John Boon, butcher.
John Bracher, farmer.
Robert Saunders, farmer.
Emanuel Shergold, carrier.
Frederick Shergold, Royal Oak and brewer.
Josiah Trubridge, farmer.
Thomas Trubridge, farmer.

Letters received from South Newton.

Carrier to Salisbury – E. Shergold, Tuesday and Saturday.