The OPC is Martin Barrett

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Berwick St Leonard – Boyton – Chilmark – Fonthill Gifford – Sherrington – Stockton – Tisbury

Websites of Interest

The Parish Church of All Saints

All Saints is a rustic looking cruciform church of the early 13th century with a squat central tower capped with a pyramidal roof.

All Saints Gallery          All Saints Churchyard Gallery

Stone Tablet to William Baker 1789          Extracts from the Parish Register 1769-1812         Rector Donates to Salisbury Infirmary 1815          Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions

Parish Register Transcripts

Baptisms
Marriages

1625-1799

Burials

1769-1799          1800-1812

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1769-1949
Marriages 1754-1998
Burials 1769-1992

Parish History

Fonthill Bishop lies in the Nadder Valley.

Civil Registration

1837 – April 1936 Tisbury Registration District
April 1936 – January 1978 Mere Registration District
January 1978 – Present Salisbury Registration District

Buildings and Land

Proposed Erection of Telegraph Poles 1932

Highways & Roads

Amesbury Turnpike v Hindon Highway Board 1868

Landowners

Owners of Land 1873

Land Surveys

1936

Crime and Legal Matters

Swing Riots 1830-1831          Crime Reports 1850-1899           Bastardy Examinations 1851

Directories

Kellys 1848           Post Office 1855          Kellys 1867          Post Office 1875          Kellys 1889         Kellys 1903          Kellys 1915

Education

School Treat 1885           Ofsted Report 2008

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Employment and Business

Agriculture and Land

Farming

Great Sheep Fair 1857

Gamekeeping

Gamekeepers Certificates 1807         

Thatching

Thatching Class 1907

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.

John Boles 1721

Wiltshire Society Apprentices

Albert John Trowbridge 1903

Exhibitions

Warminster Industrial Exhibition 1869

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

Coroners Bills & Inquest Reports

Inquests After the Great Flood of January 1841

Census Returns Transcripts

1841          1851          1861           1871          1881          1891          1901          1911

Elections, Polls & Voting Lists

Poll of Freeholders 1772          Poll Book 1818          Voters List 1832          Poll Book 1865         MP Nominations 2015

Family Notices

1900-1949

Parish Notables

William Thomas Beckford, Writer, Art Collector and Politician

Taxes

Falstone Day Book 1645-1653

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Probate

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorials & Military Gallery

Autumn Manoeuvres 1872          Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918          WWI Roll of Honour

British Red Cross/VAD Detachment

Volunteer Record of Christina Bain 1918