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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Berwick St Leonard – Boyton – Codford St Mary – Codford St Peter, – Fonthill Bishop – Stockton
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian
A small village in the Wylye valley with thatched cottages grouped in picturesque fashion around extensive watercress beds. The original dedication of the church in 1553 to Sts. Cosmos and Damien, two eastern saints, is curious. It is a small building originally in the Decorative style, rebuilt in 1624. It contains much good Jacobean woodwork, notably the pews, pulpit, altar, and altar rails; the old circular font has also a Jacobean cover. Note many painted texts etc, dated 1630, and the porch dated 1624. To the West of the church is a moat and a mound, on the top of which stood a castle belonging to the Giffards. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)
St. Cosmas Gallery St. Cosmas Interior Gallery St. Cosmas Churchyard Gallery
Protestation Return 1641-1642 Benefaction 1760 Benefaction 1812 Benefaction 1833 Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions Interior Wall Memorials
Extracts from the Parish Register 1772 Graves without Memorials with Map SS. Cosmas and Damian Bio List of Rectors
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Register Transcripts
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1677-1991
Marriages 1705-1974
Burials 1678-1990
Parish History
Buildings and Land
Landowners
Land Surveys
Crime and Legal Matters
Bedford Gaol Prisoner Joseph Hyde 1849 Crime News 1850-1899
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Agriculture
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834
Communications
British Postal Service Appointments 1737-1969
Exhibitions
Warminster Industrial Exhibition 1869
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Elections, Polls and Voting Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Poll Book 1865 Voting Revisions Barristers Court 1890
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Charities
Bishop of Salisbury’s Memorial Fund 1870
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Dioceses of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Roll of Honour Plaque 1914-1918
