OPC Vacancy
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Didmarton (GLS) – Hawkesbury (GLS) – Luckington – Oldbury on the Hill (GLS) – Sherston Magna
Websites of Interest
The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
(Soppa’s Farm) has a small church (St. Mary) with a perpendicular tower and an Early English chancel and font. In the porch is a holy water stoup. (The Little Guides 1949, Methuen)
St. Mary Gallery St. Mary Churchyard
Parish Register Transcripts
Marriages
Parish Registers Held at WSHC
Baptisms 1697-1991
Marriages 1698-1992
Burials 1697-1992
BTs 1847-1882 are held at the Bristol Record Office
Parish History
Civil Registration
1837 – April 1936 Malmesbury Registration District
April 1936 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
Landowners
Land Surveys
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814
Crime and Legal Matters
Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
MP Nominations
MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
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
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Sopworth War Memorial
