The OPC is Sandy Mursell
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Bramshaw – Downton – Plaitford with Melchet Park – West Wellow – Whiteparish
Websites of Interest
GenUKI – For information relating to Wiltshire and Landford.
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre – The Wiltshire County Archives for all historical documents and the place to obtain original copies.
Landford Community History – Historical information for parishes within the Wiltshire County jurisdiction.
The Parish Church of St. Andrew
St. Andrew’s Gallery St. Andrew’s Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Registers
Baptisms
1671-1699 1700-1749 1750-1799 1800-1849 1850-1899
Marriages
1671-1749 1750-1799 1800-1899 1900-1949
Burials
1671-1799 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1949
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1671-1902
Marriages 1671-1986
Burials 1671-1972
Parish History
Landford lies near the border of Hampshire at the north edge of the New Forest. The hamlet of No Man’s land to the south is partly in both counties. The church (St Andrew) was rebuilt in 1858 by Butterfield. There is an entrenchment known as Castle Hill. [source: The Little Guide, published by Methuen, 1949]
The parish of Landford situated in the south east of Wiltshire, is crossed by the Blackwater River and a prehistoric track, The Cloven Way. Artefacts from the Mesolithic era, Middle and late Bronze ages have been found in the area. It is also likely that the Romans were working in Landford. Landford is mentioned in the Domesday Book, suggesting that a small settlement of 20-30 people existed. The area is mentioned throughout history, the Royal Forest, titled landowners as well as the earlier recorded facts, right up to the 20th century. In 1801 the first national census shows 186 people, mainly employed in agriculture and cider making, rising to 358 in 1901. In 1861 Landford Common was enclosed with most of the land allocated to Lady Nelson (640 of the 740 acres). In the 1870’s land to the south was sold at £15 per acre for building. After that the Post Office and shops began to appear; a bus service started during WWI. Albert Winter of Glebe Farm bred a new strain of Wessex Saddleback pigs and, after his death, his work was continued by Lord Melchet. During WWII Landford Lodge was occupied successively by The Royal Tank Regiment, Military Police and American troops. It wasn’t until 1989 that the first known licensed premises arrived in the village, despite the early years of cider making! John Martin provides us with an in depth history of the village.
Extracts from the Domesday Book
Surveys of the Manors of Philip, First Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery 1631-32
By a comparison of notices in various records, this holding would seem probably to be at Landford, in the hundred of Frustfield. Jacobus de Lye held (c1270) half a knight’s fee at LANEFORD, under Albreda de Botreaux, a lineal descendant of Waleran. Test. De Nev. 141. In 1310 Willelmus de Lye presented to the church at LANEFORD (=Landford). Wilts Inst. Among the fees of Oliver de Ingham (also a descendant of Waleran) are reckoned LANEFORD as well as STEPEL-LANGFORD. Inq. p.m,. 17 Edw. 111. This is clearly the holding assigned to OTRE in the Exon Domesday (p.189), under the hundred of Frustfield. It is in no doubt, like the estate just described, a portion of LANDFORD.
Frustfield Hundred
It is difficult to say whether the first element is ‘lang’, ‘long’s or ‘lanu’, – ‘lane’. The majority of early spellings favour the latter and the stream here is so small that the passage across it could not have been a very long one. The ‘d’ is a much later insertion.
Civil Registration
1896 – Present Salisbury Registration District
Buildings and Land
Appointment of Select Commissioners for Land and Assessed Taxes 1842 Landford Common Inclosure Notice 1858
Landowners
Land Surveys
Public Houses
Landford Poacher, A36
Harley Davidson, Morgan and Triumph owners clubs meet here.
Crime and Legal Matters
Directories
Education
National School
The extracts from the School log books below relate mainly to the Moody and King families. These families are of particular interest to the OPC and are published from her own family history research notes.
| School Log Extracts 1863-1869 | School Log Extracts 1870-1879 | School Log Extracts 1880-1890 |
| School Log Extracts 1917-1927 |
Emigration and Migration
Overseas Travel
Passenger Listing – Richard Blake 1638
Employment and Business
Agriculture
Communications
British Postal Services Appointments 1737-1969
Inventors and Patents
Situations Vacant
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Landford Wood Mission Hall
People and Parish Notables
Bankruptcy
Celebrations and Entertainment
Celebrations at the Defeat of Napoleon 1814
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Please note the 1911 Census contains the entries for Earldoms
Correspondence
Letter to John Mitchell from H. Girdlestone 1840
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Poll Book 1865 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Inquest Reports
John Hatchett 1861 Sidney Robert Street 1912
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Alderbury Union Elected Guardians 1835 Workhouse Audit 1858
Overseers
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
William, Earl of Pembroke 1630
Parishioners Wills
David Chalk Proved 1813 Elizabeth Chalke Proved 1839 George Jukes proved 1837
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918
Earldoms
Parish History
Very little seems to have been written about the Extra Parochial/Civil parish of Earldoms. It was originally a civil parish under Whiteparish, but was transferred to Landford in 1896. (Extra Parochial – not included in any parish and exempt from parish obligations). Prior to the Dissolution, Earldoms was owned by Wilton Abbey, being granted to the Earl of Pembroke. In the 1820/30’s Earldoms covered approximately 630 acres, mainly woodland. In 1811 the total population was 51 and gradually decreased in population until in 1891 there were just 37 inhabitants. An excavation in 1929 uncovered an Iron Age Camp in woodland within Earldoms, where 18 burial urns were found.
Parish Registers held at WSHC
There are no registers listed for this extra-parochial place
Village History
Civil Registration
1837 – 1896 Alderbury Registration District
1896 – Present Salisbury Registration District
Directories
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 (see Landford)
Elections and Polls
Family Notices
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
William, Earl of Pembroke 1630
Parishioners Wills
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Overseers
Hamptworth
Buildings and Land
Landowners
Public Houses
Cuckoo Inn, B3080
Thatched public house on the edge of the New Forest.
Emigration and Migration
Strays Index
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Taxes
Probate
Parishioners Wills
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Merchant Navy
Medal Recipients
William Thomas Hiscock 1919-1921
Landford Wood
Landford Wood Gallery
