Tisbury, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Tisbury, a small town and a parish in Wiltshire. The town stands on a declivity adjacent to the river Nadder, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 96 miles from London, and 14 W of Salisbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Salisbury. It derived some importance in old times from the neighbourhood of Wardour Castle, numbers among its natives Sir John Davies, who died in 1626, and Chief Justice Hyde, who died in 1631. A public hall was erected in 1887, and in 1889 a new police station and petty sessions hall was built. The church of St John the Baptist is a fine old building of stone in the form of a cross, and has been well restored. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, and Methodist chapels. In 1834 the ecclesiastical parish was divided for poor-law purposes into East Tisbury,. including Chicksgrove (2718 acres, population 869); West Tisbury, including East and West Hatch (2803 acres, population 712); and Wardour (2015 acres, population 861); population of the ecclesiastical parish, 2442. There are parish councils for East Tisbury with eleven members, West Tisbury with nine members, and Wardour with eleven members. Lord Arundel is lord of the manor. Place Farm is the old manor house, dating from the 14th century, was an occasional residence of the Abbess of Shaftesbury, and still retains its gateway and its barn. The livings are a conjoint vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £300 with residence. The church is at Wardour. There are excellent quarries in the neighbourhood. The workhouse is situated in West Tisbury.
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 | Tisbury St. John the Baptist | |
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 Tisbury:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1880 | 1599-1827 | 1608-1880 |
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 Tisbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tisbury (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Tisbury 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: