The OPC is Amanda Wood-Woolley
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
All Cannings – Bishops Cannings – Calstone Wellington – Cherhill – East Kennett – Overton – Winterbourne Monkton – Yatesbury
Websites
Stone Circles – Avebury Neolithic Henge and Stone Circles
The Parish Church of St. James
Surrounded by its sarsen stone sentinels stands the church of Avebury. Within it one can see the remains of very early pre-Conquest windows cheek by jowl with Tuscan columns set up in the early nineteenth century to replace low twelfth century nave arcades. West of the nave is a lofty bell tower; at its east end is a magnificent fifteenth century screen with its rood-loft still accessible from the rood-stair. The church has an arcaded tub-font of twelfth century date
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St. James Church Gallery St. James Interior Gallery St. James Churchyard Gallery
Incumbents List 1085-1980 Church Matters 1800-1849 Church Matters 1850-1899 Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Register Transcripts
Interesting Entries from the Parish Registers 1837
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1697-1909
Marriages 1706-1991
Burials 1679-2003
Other Resources
Parish History
Avebury is well known for its historic stone circles dating back to before 2000 BC.
The parish includes Beckhampton and West Kennett
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Marlborough Registration District
Buildings and Land
Enclosure Awards 1792 Cattle Plague Regulations 1867 Owners of Land 1873
Avebury Manor
A roundhouse in the Manor grounds is a 17th century pigeon house, probably built for Avebury Trusloe Manor and built with the King’s permission for pigeon breeding. Pigeons were used for their eggs, meat and feathers. Manor House Gallery
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1826
Public Houses
Red Lion
The Avebury circle is one of the country’s finest prehistoric remains, and the subject of much excavation and interest. The inn stands in the centre of the famous megalithic circle on the site of the sacrificial altar, this being the largest religious stone circle known. The inn dates from 1619 and many of the original beams and open fire-places may be seen. An interesting feature is the old well, some 80 feet deep, which has been preserved and lighted for inspection.
Silbury Hill
Stone Circle
Crime and Legal Matters
Assaults
Attack on George Brown 1850-1851
Courts
Police
Quarter Sessions
Quarter Sessions Extracts 1685
Accused
Victims
Swing Riots
Directories
| Post Office 1855 | Kellys 1867 | Post Office 1875 | Gillmans 1899 | Gillmans 1900 | Gillmans 1914 | Kellys 1915 | Swindon & District 1928 |
| Kellys 1931 | Kellys 1939 | Post Office Telephone 1940 |
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
Aspects of the Life of the Wiltshire Agricultural Labourer c1850
Apprentices
Wiltshire Society
Aviation
Aviator Certificate – Betty Barnes Mackinlay 1937
Medical Matters
General Medical Council Registrations 1859-1959
Transport
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Avebury Congregational Chapel
Duncan & Mandy Ball’s website, this includes the history of the Chapel
Originally the Congregational Chapel and later the United Reformed Church
Congregational Chapel and Chapelyard
Baptist Chapel
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 MP Nominations 2015
Family Notices
General People Items
Secrets of Farming Book Subscribers 1863
Obituaries
Rev. Gilbert Alfred King 1930 Canon Arthur George Peters 1943
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Poor Law Crime
Charity
Weekly Donations to Savernake Hospital
Overseers
Assistant Overseer Embezzlement Charge 1914
Probate
Probate Index 1561-1881 (WSHC) Probate Notices 1800-1899 National Probate Index 1858-1966
Parishioners Wills
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Royal Navy
Naval Attestation – William Hitchens 1840 Naval Attestation – Thomas Hitchings 1845
WWI
Casualties
Casualty Biographies of WWI Alfred Charles Heyes 1915
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Calne & District Casualty Lists Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 St. James Church Roll of Honour WWI
WWII
Casualty Biographies of WWII St. James Church Roll of Honour WWII
Wiltshire Regiment
Servicemen & Families with the 1st Wilts. Regt. in South Africa 1911
Beckhampton
Silbury Hill
Buildings and Land
Public Houses
Wagon & Horses
Crime and Punishment
Inmates in Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879
Employment and Business
Community Services
Police
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Beckhampton Coursing Club News
Coroners Bills
Family Notices
Emigration and Migration
Probate
Administration
West Kennett
West Kennett Long Burrow
