Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Upton Scudamore, a parish in Wiltshire, 1½ mile NNW of Warminster station on the G.W.R. Post town, Warminster. Acreage, 2538; population of the civil parish, 256; of the ecclesiastical, 265. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1859, and is an edifice in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower. There is a small Baptist chapel. Owen, the author of " Geoponica," was rector.
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 | Upton-Scudamore St. Mary | |
Hundred | Warminster | |
Poor Law union | Warminster |
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 Upton Scudamore:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1605-1899 | 1754-1933 | 1608-1837 | 1608-1880 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Upton Scudamore from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Upton-Scudamore (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Upton Scudamore 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: