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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Chippenham – Kington St. Michael – Langley Burrell
Websites of Interest
Church of St Nicholas – For burials and other parish information.
The Parish Church of St. Nicholas
(Old English. Heregeard’s hiwise = family holding) is usually abbreviated to “Harnish”. The church (St. Nicholas) was built in 1779 by Wood of Bath and is a charming little building in the Classic style. The churchyard contains a prominent monument to David Ricardo , M.P., the political and social economist (1823) , John Thorpe, the antiquary, is also buried there (1792). There is a wide-spreading view to the South from the churchyard embracing the Avon valley with the North edge of Salisbury Plain in the distance. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)
St. Nicholas Gallery St. Nicholas Interior Gallery St. Nicholas Churchyard Cemetery
For Burial transcriptions visit St. Nicholas Church
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1730-1970
Marriages 1730-1991
Burials 1730-1975
BTs 1837-1857 are held at the Bristol Record Office
Parish History
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Chippenham Turnpike Notices 1846 Owners of Land 1873
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814
Crime and Legal Matters
Directories
Slaters 1852-1853 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1915 Swindon & District 1928
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
Parish Notables
Francis Kilvert, Diarist 1840-1879 David Ricardo, Political Economist & MP 1772-1823
Taxes
Uncategorised People Items
Residents Mentioned in Kilvert’s Diary 1870-1879
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials& Military Gallery
WWI
Casualties
Albert Edward Thomas Rose (Rusher) 1918
War Memorials and Memorial Books
Calne & District Casualty Lists 1914-1918 Roll of Honour 1914-1918
