Sedghill, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Sedgehill, a parish in Wiltshire, 1½ mile NNW of Semley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4½ miles SW of Hindon. It has a post office under Shaftesbury; money order and telegraph office, Semley. Acreage, 1185; population of the civil parish, 176; of the ecclesiastical, 237. The living is a chapelry attached to Berwick St Leonard, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £225. The church is a stone building in the Gothic style.
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 | Sedghill St. Catherine | |
Hundred | Dunworth | |
Poor Law union | Mere |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sedghill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sedghill (St. Catherine))
Newspapers and Periodicals
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