OPC Vacancy

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Foxley – Hullavington – Sherston Magna

Websites of Interest

The Parish Church of All Saints

Norton (North Farm) has a small church (All Saints) and a 17th century manor house, both of which have been much modernised. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)

All Saints Gallery          All Saints Interior Gallery          All Saints Churchyard Gallery

Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions

Parish Register Transcripts

Marriages

1666-1809 (with gaps)

Parish Registers held at WSHC

Baptisms 1663-1992
Marriages 1663-1964
Burials 1663-1988
BTs 1837-1875 are held at Bristol Record Office

Parish History

Civil Registration

1837 – April 1936 Malmesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Chippenham Registration District

Buildings and Land

Owners of Land 1873

Public Houses

Royal Oak

The Vine Tree Inn

Formerly an old mill

Maps

Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814

Crime and Legal Matters

Ferber charged with Murder 1942

Directories

Post Office 1855          Kellys 1915          Swindon & District 1928          Taylors 1941

Education

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Employment and Business

Game Licences 1834

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

Census Returns Transcripts

1851          1861          1871          1881          1891          1901

Elections, Polls and Voters Lists

Poll Book 1818          Voters Lists Revisions 1843

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

Taxes

Falstone Day Book 1645-1653

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Poor Law Union

Guardians

Election of Guardians 1837          Election of Guardians 1839          Election of Guardians 1844            Nomination of Guardians 1886

Tenders
Medical Services

1837          1839

Probate

Probate Index 1607-1881          Sale of Farm Stock 1863

War, Conflict and Military Matters

Home Guards 1940-1944