Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Steeple Ashton, a village and a parish in Wiltshire, 3½ miles from Trowbridge station on the G.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Trowbridge. Acreage, 2864; population of the civil parish, 705; of the ecclesiastical, 1310. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. A market cross was erected in 1679. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, with the chapelry of Semington annexed; net value, £375 with residence, in the gift of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The church is a handsome structure in the Gothic style, with an embattled tower, and contains some interesting memorials. There are Primitive Methodist and Baptist 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 Steeple Ashton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Steeple Ashton 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