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Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Swallowcliffe, a parish in Wiltshire, 1½ mile SSE of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Tisbury. Acreage, 1350; population, 247. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is good. There is an iron mission hall.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyWiltshire 
Ecclesiastical parishSwallowcliffe St. Peter 
HundredDunworth 
Poor Law unionTisbury 

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 Swallowcliffe:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1584-1837   

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 Swallowcliffe from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Swallowcliffe are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

CountyWiltshire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtSP3
Post TownSalisbury

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