Idmiston, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Idmiston, a tithing and a parish in Wiltshire. The tithing lies near Porton station on the L. & S.W.R., 4 miles SE of Amesbury, and 6 NE by N of Salisbury. Post towni, Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Winterbourne Gunner. The parish contains also the chapelry of Porton, the tithings of Gomeldon and Shripple, and part of the tithing of Ford. Acreage, 5492; population of the civil parish, 457; of the ecclesiastical, 508. The manor belongs to the Earl of Normanton. There are several barrows, the burial-places of the chieftains of the old Celtic inhabitants of the county. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Porton, in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £211. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The parish church is ancient, has a steeple covered with wooden shingles, was restored in 1867, and contains several monuments-one of which is to the Rev. John Bowie, who edited " Don Quixote," and was buried in the church in 1788. The church of St Nicholas, at Porton, was rebuilt of flint on a new site in 1877.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Idmiston All Saints | |
Hundred | Alderbury | |
Poor Law union | Amesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Idmiston with Porton 1577-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1577.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Idmiston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1577-1917 | 1654-1809 | 1856-1933 | 1577-1880 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is an ancient structure of flint with stone dressings restored in 1867, and consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch; and a western tower with spire containing 4 bells: the chancel is Early English, and the nave and aisles, clerestory and roof Perpendicular: in the nave is a monument, to a Mr. Rowbach, dated 1633, and several marble tablets to the Bowle family: the east and west windows are stained: the chancel and each of the aisles has a piscina and in the south aisle is part of the rood staircase: there are 150 sittings.
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 Idmiston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Idmiston (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Idmiston 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: