South Damerham, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Damerham, South, a parish in Wiltshire. It lies on an affluent of the river Avon, at the boundary with Dorsetshire, 3 miles W of Fordingbridge station on the L. & S.W.R. and 7½ NW by N of Ringwood, includes the tithing of East End, North End, and South End, and has a post office of the name of Damerham under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Fordingbridge. Acreage, 4681; population, 532. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £400. Patrons, Hyndman's Trustees. The church is good, and there are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Administration

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

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for South Damerham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Damerham, South (St. George))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle