Elston, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Elston, a hamlet in Orcheston St George parish, Wilts, 6½ miles NW of Amesbury. Population, 61.
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 County | Wiltshire | |
Civil parish | Orcheston St George | |
Hundred | Heytesbury | |
Poor Law union | Amesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Elston from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Elston 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: