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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Little Hinton – Sevenhampton – Shrivenham (BRK) – Stanton Fitzwarren – Wanborough
Websites of Interest
South Marston Village Website – For local information and news
The Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
St. Mary Magdalene Gallery St. Mary Magdalene Interior Gallery St. Mary Magdalene Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions (60% completed) Church Interior Memorial Inscriptions
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers Held at WSHC
Baptisms 1539-1884
Marriages 1540-1980
Burials 1539-1915
The above are held on microfiche only
NB: Highworth registers include baptisms, marriages and burials for people living in South Marston.
BT’s 1837-1856 are held at the Bristol Record Office and include Highworth and Sevenhampton
Parish History
Civil Registration
1837 – 1898 Highworth Registration District
1898 – Present Swindon Registration District
Location
South Marston was a chapelry of Highworth and is 4 miles north east of Swindon.
Parish Community News
Buildings and Land
Archaeology
Triangle Archaeology Site Report 2005
Canal
Notice of Intended Construction of the Wilts & Berks Canal 1793
Landowners
Maps
Property Sales
Property Sales by Auction
Freehold Dairy Farm for Sale by Auction 1799
Crime and Legal Matters
Parishioners Eligible to Serve as Jurors 1771 Parishioners Eligible to Serve as Jurors 1771 (Prierey Farley)
Directories
Post Office 1875 Swindon & District 1928
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Commercial & Industrial Gallery
Agriculture
Swindon Livestock Market Prizes 1874
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.
Please note that entries marked * may refer to Worton & Marston or Marston Meysey
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcriptions
Election and Pools
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Electoral Lists Revision Court 1902 Election Results 2017 Election Results 2018 Local Election Results 2019
Family Notices
Parish Notables
Alfred Owen Williams, Poet and Author
South Marston is the birthplace of Alfred Owen Williams (7 Feb 1877 – 10 Apr 1930) the ‘hammerman poet’. Of his village he wrote “the cottages are scattered along the roads and lanes at intervals and the farms are dotted here and there in the rich green fields. Winding round the lanes, bordered with magnificent elms which stand in lines along the hedgerows and down the orchards, suddenly you come to a farm which but a moment before had been invisible. There are trees to the right of you, trees to the left of you and trees all around you.”
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Poor Rate 1920 Public Assistance Administration 1948
