Fifield Bavant, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Fifield Bavant, a parish in Wilts, on an affluent of the river Avon, 4½ miles S of Dinton station of the L. & S.W.R., and 7 SW of Wilton. Post town, Broad Chalk under Salisbury. Acreage, 870; population of civil parish, 43; of the ecclesiastical, 49. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £164. Patron, the Marquis< of Bath. The church is very small.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Hundred | Chalk | |
Poor Law union | Wilton |
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 Fifield Bavant:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1622-1879 | 1756-1888 | 1622-1926 | 1627-1913 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Martin (parish church)
The church of St. Martin is a very small building of stone, consisting of nave only, and has 40 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 Fifield Bavant from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fifield-Bavant)
Maps
Online maps of Fifield Bavant 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: