Teffont Evias, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Teffont Evias, a parish in Wiltshire, 1½ mile NW of Dinton station on the L. & S.W.R., and 6½ miles W of Wilton. It has a post office, of the name of Teffont, under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Dinton. Acreage, 749; population, 123. Two almshouses were built in 1886. There are stone quarries in this parish which were worked in the time of the Romans. The property is all in one estate, and belongs to the Fane de Salis family of Teffont Manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £170 with residence. The church is good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Hundred | Dunworth | |
Poor Law union | Tisbury |
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 Teffont Evias:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1672-1878 | 1672-1835 | 1623-1877 |
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 Teffont Evias from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Teffont-Evias)
Maps
Online maps of Teffont Evias 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: