Stapleford, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Stapleford, a parish in Wiltshire, 1¼ mile NNW of Wishford station on the G.W.R., and 4½ miles NNW of Wilton. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Wishford; telegraph office, Wylye. Acreage, 2118; population, 250. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £190 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church has been restored, and has a fine Norman porch. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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

Church Records

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

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 Stapleford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stapleford (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Stapleford 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:

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