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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Civil parish | East Lavington | |
Hundred | Swanborough | |
Poor Law union | Devizes |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Easterton)
Maps
Online maps of Easterton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: