Codford St Mary, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Codford St Mary, a parish in Wilts, on the river Wiley, near Codford station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. Acreage, 2129; population, 322. Codford Hill is crowned by a curious earthwork, called Ogbury or Codford Circle, supposed to have been formed by Druids for religious rites, and commands a most interesting view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £410. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is Later English, in good condition, and there is a Congregational chapel.
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 | Codford St. Mary | |
Hundred | Heytesbury | |
Poor Law union | Warminster |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1653.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Codford St Mary:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1624-1894 | 1755-1834 | 1625-1933 | 1623-1934 |
Churches
Church of England
St Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is a building of stone, consisting of chancel with aisle, nave, south aisle, south porch and an ancient western tower, containing 3 bells: the chancel is Transitional, and the tower of the 16th century: the chancel arch is late Norman, elaborately carved: in the chancel aisle is a monument to the Mompesson family: the communion table was made from the old pulpit of the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford; the handsome altar cloth was worked by Mrs. Ashley Dodd, late of Stockton House; the east window is stained: the church was restored in 1879 at a cost of £1,200, and has 200 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
The Congregational chapel was founded in 1778, with Sunday school: the chapel has 200 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 Codford St Mary from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Codford (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Codford St Mary 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: