The OPC is Susan Martin
Nunton & Bodenham Photo Gallery
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Alderbury – Britford – Downton – Odstock – Whitsbury
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Andrew
Is at the junction of the Ebble with the Avon below Salisbury. The small church (St. Andrew) is Early English and was rebuilt in 1855 by T.H. Wyatt. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)
St. Andrew’s Gallery St. Andrew’s Interior Gallery St. Andrew’s Churchyard Gallery St. Andrew’s Churchyard Cremation Area Gallery
History of St. Andrew Extracts from the Parish Register Memorial Inscriptions 2013 Church Matters 1850-1899
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions 2024 Churchyard Burial Plot Map 2024 Churchyard Burial Plot Details 2024 Churchyard Burial Plot Guide 2024
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Protestation Return
Nunton & Bottenham Parish 1641-1642
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
1663-1724 1725-1781 1813-1918 1965-2002
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1672-1906
Marriages 1672-2000
Burials 1672-1965
Parish History
The Village of Nunton
The village grew up, in Saxon times, around a farmstead, whose occupants grew pulses and corn on 12 ha of land. Its early history was tied in with Downton, where the moderately luxurious villa was the centre of a typical Roman farmstead, until it was superseded by Saxon settlement on sites nearer the river, and was deserted. Downton was the principal village in the 7th and 8th centuries, and the centre of the bishop of Winchester’s manor – one of the See’s earliest endowments and richest manors – visited by William I in the late 11th century. The 13th century demesne had more than 2,000 sheep, never exceeded after 1312, but totals below 1,000 were rare. Most of the Avon valley meadows and a great sheep walk were still part of the demesne when it was leased. Nunton’s lands reached back from the Ebble some 6 km. to the Wiltshire-Hampshire border beyond Grim’s ditch. The lordship of Downton manor was leased in 1551 to Sir William Herbert, created earl of Pembroke that year, and again under the 1558–9 Act. Sir Joseph Ashe, Bt. replaced Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, in 1662 as lord farmer; the manor was bought, in 1741, by Anthony Duncombe (created Lord Feversham in 1747). At his death in 1763 Lord Feversham’s widow Anne (d. 1795), married (in 1765) William Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone (created earl of Radnor in that year). The tithing contained 28–30 households c. 1577 and a tenth of the rateable wealth of Downton parish in 1628. The 1801 population of the 1,215 a. (492 ha.) parish, was 221; declining to 259 in 1931.
Exhibition of Youthful Industry & Wild Flowers 1858 Demonstration of Loyalty 1872
Civil Registration
1837 – 1896 Alderbury Registration District
1896 – Present Salisbury Registration District
Buildings and Land
Nunton House
Public Houses
Radnor Arms off the A338
The building was built as a cottage in the mid 18th century. It became a public house in 1853 and named after Lord Radnor whose descendants still own the nearby estate.
Crime and Legal Matters
Animal Cruelty
Bastardy
Court Cases
Fraud
General Items
Crime Reports 1800-1849 Crime Reports 1850-1899
Directories
Post Office 1855 Kellys 1859 Post Office 1867 Post Office 1875 Kellys 1889 Kellys 1903 Kellys 1915
Education
There were two day-schools (neither in a special building) in the parish in 1833: one, with 26 children, was started in 1826, and supported by the parents; the other, with 32 children, was supported by the generosity of a lady. Nunton’s glebe-house was, however, converted for the Sunday school – and in 1846 it was adapted as an elementary school, funded from 1860 by the state. 1863’s average attendance was 49, falling to 36 by 1903 – and closing in 1922 when the children transferred to Odstock.
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Accidents
Accident Reports 1700-1799 Bridge Collapsed on John Weeks 1864 Thomas Weeks Accident 1867 Threshing Machine Accident 1872 Rifle Fatality 1909
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Elections and Polls
Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Family Notices
Funeral Reports
Inquests
James Crook 1891 John Fryer 1901
Sport
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Alderbury Union Elected Guardians 1835 Workhouse Audit 1858
Overseers
Probate
Probate Notices 1700 – Present
Inquisitions of Lands Held
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Chelsea Pensioners
Rejected Claims
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Memorial to Captain Duncombe F. B. Buckley 1857 Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 St. Andrews WWI War Memorial St. Andrew’s WWII Memorial Tablet Nunton Roll of Honour 1939-1950
Bodenham
Employment and Business
British Postal Services Appointments 1737-1969
