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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Chisbury – Enford – Figheldean – Maddington – Netheravon – Orcheston St George – Rollestone – Winterbourne Stoke
Websites of Interest
St Mary’s – Church website for general information
Shrewton – Village Website
The Parish Church of St. Mary
(Sheriff’s Farm) which forms one village with Maddington, in the heart on the Plain and is an important road junction. In the centre of the village is an old circular stone lockup. The church (St. Mary) was largely rebuilt in 1855, but retains its transept arcades and the responds and capitals of the chancel arch, though the arch itself is modern. There are canopied piscina in both chancel and North aisle. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)
St. Mary Gallery St. Mary Interior Gallery St. Mary Churchyard
Church Backed Charities and Funding
| St. Mary’s founder William Longspee | Shrewton Protestation Return 1641-1642 | Vicar Cured of Dropsy 1757 | Vicars List |
| St. Mary’s church through the Ages | Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions |
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1557-1986
Marriages 1557-1986
Burials 1557-1981
Parish History
For many years at least until before WWI the people of Shrewton celebrated Trinity Monday (this may have been actually Whit Monday as this was a public bank holiday). Traditionally the local friendly societies would gather at the fair field in the morning and in the afternoon tea was provided for the children of the village. A carousel provided by Henry Jenning of Devizes normally featured as a central attraction with many other side shows and booths. In the early 1920’s an outing to Edington Priory Church was made and 3 vehicles were needed to ferry the trippers three of which were the Reverend Bull, Dolly Gant and Ina Kilford.
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Amesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Salisbury Registration District
Buildings and Land
Agriculture
Cattle Plague Regulations 1867 Foot & Mouth Disease 1924-1925
Buildings of Note
Sundial Cottage
This thatched cottage on London Road is so named due to the sundial which is hung just below the thatch of the upper floor. A wooden plaque attached reads ‘Life’s but a walking shadow’. The dial is dated 1832. The cottage over the years has been home to the Lovelock and Pitt families at various stages of its history.
Fires
Floods
Disastrous Floods 1841 Estimates for Flood Damage Repairs 1841 Great Flood 1841 Rector’s Poem to Raise Funds for Flood Victims 1841
General Items
Public Houses
The Bustard Inn (Hotel)
Landlord William Young played host to news reporters during WWI when they used his hotel as a base for reporting on troop movements around Salisbury plain.
George Inn, London Road
Originally a brewery in the 1600s it gained a pub license around 1841. In 1904 the landlord was Henry Ackerman and prior to that the host was William Morrell. There is a beer festival here each August Bank Holiday
The Plume of Feathers, High Street
The building is 18th century and has only been a pub since 1900. On 10th January 1914 an open top bus owned by John Hall & Son left the public house to travel to Swindon Town F.C.s ground to see the Wiltshire team beat Manchester Utd. 1-0. The local Newsagent shop was situated in a hut in the yard of the public house. Publican James Bundy and his son Herbert owned the newsagents. The errand or delivery boy was Jack ‘Speedy’ Carter.
Royal Oak, Amesbury Road
Its stone mullioned windows suggest a fairly old building and from photographs displayed in the bar it has been a pub since the early 20th century.
Crime and Legal Matters
Criminal Damage
Offenders
Criminal Life of Robert Sperring 1828-1830
Theft
Alleged Theft from John Gibb’s Beer-House 1858
Directories
Post Office 1855 Kellys 1889 Kellys 1903
Education
Emigration and Migration
Emigration to Australia
New South Wales
Strays
Employment and Business
Agriculture, Farming and Land
Sales of Stock
Sale at Compton Farm, Enford 1870
Apprentices
Apprentice records published here may not necessarily mean that the apprentice was from the parish but was apprenticed to a master within the parish.
Robert Gibbs 1759 William Morgan 1757 Mary Nickols 1755
Communications
British Postal Services Appointments 1737-1969
Community Services
Police
| Wiltshire Constabulary 1858 | Edwin Mullins Andrews, Police Officer 1878-1969 | James Dewey, Police Constable 1814-1872 | Sergeant Enos Molden 1843-1892 |
| Presentation to Police Sergeant Pinnell 1892 |
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Albert Victor Chant played a drum in the Shrewton Band
Bill Kilford wrote on the back of a postcard in 1915 that he was involved in erecting huts at Rollestone Camp.
Births
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voting Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters Lists 1832 Poll Book 1865 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Family Notes
General Items
Inquest Reports
Inquests After the Great Flood of January 1841 Robert Chandler 1843
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Amesbury Union Guardians Appointed 1835
Overseers
Probate
Inquisitions of Land Held
Parishioners Wills
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Boer War
Wiltshire Yeomanry – Volunteers for Active Service 1899
Manoeuvres
WWI
Australian Forces
Casualties
Nurse Daisy Violet Dimmer 1918 Death of Probationer Nurse 1918
Memorial Books and War Memorials
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Shrewton War Memorial
Training Camps
Salisbury Plain in Flood Time 1915
WWII
Civilian Deaths 1939-1945
