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Easterton, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Easterton, a parish in Wiltshire, 7 miles from Devizes station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Devizes; money order and telegraph office, Market Lavington. Acreage, 1653; population of the civil parish, 363; of the ecclesiastical, 572. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church, erected in 1875, is a red brick building in the Early English style, and has 150 sittings. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a free reading-room.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWiltshire 
Civil parishEast Lavington 
HundredSwanborough 
Poor Law unionDevizes 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1875.

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Easterton:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1875-1880  1876-1880

Churches

Church of England

St. Barnabas (parish church)

The church of St. Barnabas, erected in 1875, is a building of red brick, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are about 150 sittings.

Methodist

Wesleyan Chapel

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Easterton from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Easterton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

CountyWiltshire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtSN10
Post TownDevizes

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