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Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Corsley – Warminster with Christchurch – Westbury
Websites
Village Website – News and events.
Parish Church of St. Mary The Virgin
St. Mary Gallery St. Mary Interior Gallery St. Mary Churchyard Gallery
Church Interior
Two Knight Effigies Interior Wall Memorial Inscriptions
Church Officials
Church Supported Charities
Salisbury Infirmary Diocese of Salisbury Parish Donations 1858
Churchyard
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Parish Registers Held at WSHC
Baptisms 1654-1899
Marriages 1654-1837
Burials 1654-1992
Parish History
Upton Scudamore is a beautiful village on the main road between Warminster and Westbury. The parish at one time also included Thoulstone and Hisomley. Thoulstone moved to Westbury in 1844 and Hisomley to the new parish of Chapmanslade in 1934. The village is named after the Scudamore family; they lived at the Manor House of Upton from around the Conquest to the 15th Century. The lands were then sold to the Hungerford family who added it to their sheep rearing estate located at Heytesbury. The Hungerford family ran the Manor until it was then let to the Temple family of Bishopstrow in 1662. The Temples purchased more of the surrounding land, and stayed in the Manor until the 20th century. In the Domesday Survey of 1086, Upton was a very prosperous village with a population of around 225. It also mentions that the largest holdings in the village belonged to Alfred of Marlborough and was worth £9; it was this land that eventually passed to the Hungerfords.
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Warminster Registration District
Newspapers covering Upton Scudamore
Salisbury Journal 1738 – 1860’s
Sherbourne Mercury 1737 – 1867
Somerset & Wiltshire Journal 1855 – 1925
Trowbridge Advertiser 1855 – 1874
Trowbridge Chronicle 1861 – 1906
Warminster Herald 1857 – 1893
Warminster Journal 1881 – Present
Wiltshire Independent 1836 – 1876
Wiltshire News 1909 – 1955
Wiltshire Times 1880 – Present
Population Figures
Population Figures 1801 – 2011
Buildings and Land
Public Houses
The Angel Inn
Crime and Legal Matters
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Wilts Society Apprentice Arthur Daniels 1877
Agriculture and Land
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834 Shepherd Prizes 1886 Threshing Machine Accident 1866
Communications
British Postal Services Appointments 1737-1969
Emergency Services
James Dewey, Police Constable 1814-1872
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Election and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Poll Book 1865 Voting Revisions Barristers Court 1890 MP Nominations 2015
Family Notices
Life Events from Warminster Parish Magazine 1901 Life Events from Warminster Parish Magazine 1902
Inquest Reports
Inquest Reports 1800-1849 Clement Rowland Daniells 1874
Personal Research
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Medical Tenders Requested 1841
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem of Lands Held
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Boer War
Casualties
Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry Casualties 1899-1902 Thomas Austin Brown 1901
