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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Aldbourne – Chiseldon – Stratton St Margaret – Wanborough
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of All Saints
The church contains some ancient tombs in the north aisle, one of them said to belong to an abbess of Shaftesbury, who was the founder.
All Saints Gallery All Saints Interior Gallery All Saints Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions and grave marker Plot Locations (60% complete) The Liddington Bells Project Church Matters 1700-1799
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Banns
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1692-1952
Marriages 1692-1992
Burials 1692-1919
BTs 1838-1842 are held at Bristol Record Office
Please note the burial records 1813-1918 may not be a complete record set
Parish History
Liddington is a downland village with pretty thatched cottages. It is sometimes spelt Lyddington and includes the tything of Coate and the hamlets of Caste, Liddington Wick, Liddington Warren and Medbourn.
(old english. hlyde = loud stream; ington = farm) is a downland village with pretty thatched cottages. The church (All Saints) contains some ancient tombs in the north aisle, one of them said to belong to an Abbess of Shaftesbury, who was the founder. Liddington Castle is about 1 mile to the south, and is finely placed strategically, while it commands some magnificent views over a great expanse of country – Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, all coming into the wonderful pictures unfolded. The camp is a good specimen of the prehistoric fortresses of Iron Age so numerous on the chalk escarpments. The single fosse is a deep one, and the encircling rampart is 40ft high, that area enclosed being about 7.3/4 acres. The old Ridgeway comes down from Hackpen Hill and Barbury Castle, with its beech clump, which is away to the southwest and over 4 miles distant, and which must not be confounded in any way with the pretty little hamlet of Badbury, close to Liddington and erroneously associated sometimes with the victory of Badbury Rings. (The Little Guide 1949, Methuen)
Civil Registration
1837 – 1898 Highworth Registration District
1898 – Present Swindon Registration District
Parish Council
Buildings and Land
Domesday Book Extract Enclosure Awards 1777 Commutation of Tithes 1838 Owners of Land 1873
Barbury Camp
May be readily reached by a pleasant walk over the open downs of the Hackpen Hill range. It is set on a commanding elevation where the escarpment of the Chalk Downs looks across the Vale of White Horse, and it is well marked out by its beech clump visible for many miles around. The camp, some 1/2 m. round, is encircled by a double ditch and rampart, the latter of great strength, enclosing over 12 acres. The east entrance is defended by a barbican. Various relics have been dug up here, torques, coins, arrow-heads, etc., and many are preserved in the Marlborough Museum. The ancient Ridgeway climbs the hill almost to the Castle or camp, ‘paving itself with harebell, silverweed, eyebright, and bartsia’. This was one of Richard Jefferies’ favourite haunts, and was easily reached from his home in Coate. Barbury has strong claims to be considered that Beran Byrig where the britons were defeated in a decisive battle by the West Saxons under Cynric and ceawlin in 556. (The Little Guide 1949, Methuen)
Coate Water
Coate Water was constructed as a reservoir in around 1830 to top up the canal which ran through Swindon. Coate was fed by the River Cole. In 1913, Swindon Corporation bought Coate Water plus 80 acres of surrounding land for £10,000. The area today is used as a boating lake and nature reserve. A popular retreat for locals from the hustle and bustle of the industrial metropolis that is Swindon.
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1818
Parish Council
Property Sales
Public Houses
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy
Affiliation Summons Bateman v Crew 1891
Prisons and Prisoners
Convicts sent to Prison Hulks 1823-1842
Directories
Post Office 1855 Kellys 1915 Swindon & District 1928 Swindon & District 1951
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture and Land
Game Certificates 1839 Game Certificates 1849
Apprentices
Wiltshire Boys Apprenticed in Oxfordshire
Robert Horne 1702 William Webb 1705
Communications
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Fatal Accident to Henry Martin 1874
Census Returns Transcripts
(Census’s 1861 & 1871 not transcribed as already free to view)
Bishop Compton’s census 1676
Aged over 16 years – 160 conformists.
Elections, Polls & Voting Lists
Poll Book 1705 Poll of Freeholders 1772 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843 Electoral Lists Revision Court 1902 Poll Book 1818 Poll Book 1868
Family Notices
General Items
Secrets of Farming Book Subscribers 1863
Parish Notables
Joel Joffe – Baron of Liddington 1932-2017
Personal Research Items
Pope Surname Parish Register Extracts to 1837
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Churchwardens’ Accounts 1775-1777 Medical Relief 1837 Poor Law Union Supplies 1847 Public Assistance Administration 1948
Probate
National Probate Index 1858-1966
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Servicemen & Families with 1st Wilts Regt. in South Africa 1911 Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1919
Royal Navy
Naval Attestations
Coate
Crime and Legal Matters
Alleged Assault by John Bourton 1875
Employment and Business
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969 (Coate)
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations & Societies
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1827-1871
Deaths
Elections, Polls & Voters Lists
Parish Notables
Richard Jefferies – Natural History Writer, 1848-1887
Parish Notables
Richard Jefferies, Natural History Writer Pilgrimage to Richard Jefferies Grave 1915
Medbourn/Medbourne
Parish History
Also known as Medborne and Medbourne
Buildings and Land
Property for Sale by Auction
Rebbeck Property at Medbourne Farm 1877
Employment & Business
Agriculture
Swindon Livestock Market Prizes 1874
