The OPC/Consultant is Elaine Read
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Alderbury – Clarendon Park – Pitton & Farley – West Dean – Whiteparish
Websites of Interest
West Grimstead – Village Website.
Transcriptions of Parish Registers, census, photographs and other information about this village can be found on the OPC’s website just Click Here
The Parish Church of St. John
Church Interior
Church Officials
Incumbents New Priest Ordained by Bishop of Salisbury 1861
Church Supported Charities
Salisbury Infirmary Diocese of Salisbury Parish Donations 1858
Churchyard
St. John Churchyard Gallery Churchyard Memorial Survey
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1717-1982
Marriages 1717-1982
Burials 1717-1969
Parish History
West Grimstead was, on the whole, owned by wealthy noblemen and was part of larger manors or estates. There are early references to the De Grimstede family, the ownership of the village passing from them through the male line first to the Perots, then to the Berkeleys; next through the female line to the Breretons; again by the male line to Sir William Compton of Compton Wynyates. West Grimstead was then sold by Richard Compton to Sir Stephen Fox, Earl of Ilchester, and remained part of that estate through the 18th century until it was sold to the Earl of Radnor in 1801 at the time of the Enclosure Act. In 1916 the whole village was sold by the Longford Estate, mainly to sitting tenants.
Civil Registration
1837 – 1896 Alderbury Registration District
1896 – Present Salisbury Registration District
Buildings and Land
Railway
Trip on the New Salisbury to Bishopstoke Railway 1846
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy
Crime Reports
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Gamekeepers Certificates 1807 Gamekeepers Certificates 1834
Community Services
Police
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Wesleyan Chapel
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations and Societies
Census Returns
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Voters List 1832 MP Nominations 2015 MP Nominations 2017
Taxes
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Alderbury Union Elected Guardians 1835 Workhouse Audit 1858
Overseers
Probate
Probate Index 1870 (WSHC)
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book 1914-1918 Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Wounded Soldier – G. Light 1915 War Memorial
