OPC Vacancy

Bulkington Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Keevil – Potterne – Poulshot – Seend – Worton & Marston

Websites of Interest

The Parish Church of Christchurch

Christchurch Gallery          Christchurch Interior Gallery          Christchurch Churchyard Gallery

Christchurch Churchyard  Memorial Inscriptions from information supplied by Lynne and Paul Powell.

Parish Church News 1850-1899           Church Officers 2013

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms None Held
Marriages 1884-1996
Burials 1860-1992

Parish History

Bulkington (Bulca’s farm) has the remains of an old market cross. Christ Church dates from 1860. [source: The Little Guide, published by Methuen, 1949]  Prior to 1860 Bulkington was a tything of Keevil.

Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Civil Registration

1837 – April 1936 Westbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Warminster Registration District

Village Magazine – Spotlight

For Copies of this publication please see the Seend Parish Page

Buildings and Land

Maps

Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811

Public Houses

The Well Inn

Crime and Legal Matters

Crime Reports 1800-1849           Crime Reports 1850-1899

Directories

Post Office 1855           Post Office 1875          Gillmans 1900           Gillmans 1914         Kellys 1915

Education

This section is awaiting information to be compiled

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Employment and Business

Apprentices

Charles Adams 1760          Roger Bevern 1725           William Burgess 1758

Wiltshire Society Apprentices

Jacob Barker 1820          Jane Gaisford Flower 1876

Markets

Pitched Market Proposal 1847

People and Parish Notables

Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies

Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society

Promotion 1912

Census Returns Transcripts

Census Returns Transcripts

1801          1851          1861          1881          1891          1901

Elections and Polls

Poll Book 1818           Voters List 1832          Voters Lists Revisions 1843           MP Nominations 2015

Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse

Workhouse Provisions & Clothing Tenders 1846          Poor Law Union Audit 1849

Probate

Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held

Giles Tooker 1627

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Naval Attestation – George Jefferies 1874      Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918          War Memorial 1914-1918

WWI

Casualties

Albert Charles Perrett 1918