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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
East Coulston – Great Cheverell – Imber – Keevil – Worton & Marston
Websites of Interest
Village History – Parish Council
The Parish Church of Holy Saviour
Church Interior
Church Officials
Bellringers
Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers Meeting 1915
Church Taxes and Tithes
Churchyard
Holy Saviour Churchyard Gallery Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1689-1992
Marriages 1689-1996
Burials 1689-1961
Parish History
(OE, stoc= place of the Earl) is an exceedingly pretty village, a little to the E. of Edington. The present church (St. Saviour) was built in 1880 by G. E. Street, R. A..
The old church stood on lower ground, as did the old mansion, the residence at one time of Matthew Fitzherbert, one of Henry III’s judges. The present house commands some glorious views: beautiful woodland scenery, and the great vale of the Bristol Avon away to the N. and W., and the mass of Salisbury Plain immediately to the S. Cobbett writes in very appreciative style of the village: ‘The houses stand at a few yards from each other on the two sides of the road; every house is white, and the front of every one is covered with some sort of clematis, or with rose trees or jasmines’. [The Little Guides, published by Methuen 1949]
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Devizes Registration District
Buildings and Land
Gaming Notices 1846 Owners of Land 1873
Cemetery
There is an disused cemetery nearby, but it is on private land and doesn’t have public access.
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1808-1811
Public Houses
George & Dragon. For Sale 2020
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy Examinations 1843-1861 Killing of Rabbits Charges 1846
Quarter Sessions
Court Appearance
Directories
Education
This section is awaiting information to be compiled
Emigration and Migration
To South Africa
Strays
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
Apprentices
Apprentice records published here may not necessarily mean that the apprentice was from the parish but was apprenticed to a master within the parish.
Jonathan Axford 1716 Samuel Bart 1715
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Christian Spiritualists
Interest in Erlestoke House 1930
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Agricultural Societies
Wiltshire Agricultural Show Prize Winners 1904
Friendly Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections and Polls
Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
Personal Research Items
Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts – This item was donated by Ken Tuck and contains entries that may or may not relate to the Tuck family however they have been published as such. Many refer to Quaker burials found across the county
Parish Notables
Dawn French, Comedy Actress Lenny Henry, Comedian
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Poor Law Union Bread & Flour Contract 1838
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Service Personnel
Wiltshire Militia Deserters 1812
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Roll of Honour to those Enlisted in WWI War Memorial WWI & WWII
St. James
The Church of St. James stood on the foundations of the earlier church of St Margaret’s within the old churchyard which still exists, near the site of the former Manor House behind the present village hall. It was a small building consisting only of a nave, chancel, and low western tower. A Church at Erlestoke is first mentioned in documentary evidence about 1220, and surviving capitals and bases from the old Church, now in the present one, show that it was originally a Norman building of circa 1130 – 50
The church which stood on lower ground, as did the old Mansion, the residence at one time of Matthew Fitzherbert, one of Henry III’s judges.
This Church was closed and demolished in 1877 and its churchyard is on private grounds. There is no access.
