Littleton Drew, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Littleton Drew or Littleton St Andrew, a parish in Wiltshire, 7½ miles NW of Chippenham town and station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chippenham. Acreage, 980; population, 172. The manor belongs to the Duke of Beaufort. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is very small but interesting.
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 | Littleton-Drew All Saints | |
Hundred | Chippenham | |
Poor Law union | Chippenham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1706.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Littleton Drew:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1603-1900 | 1620-1900 | 1622-1900 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a central embattled tower containing 3 bells: in the church is an altar tomb with the recumbent effigy of a lady: there are 100 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 Littleton Drew from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Littleton-Drew (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Littleton Drew 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: