Wilcot, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Wilcot, a parish, with a village and three tithings, in Wiltshire, on the Avon and Kennet Canal, 2 miles W by N of Pewsey station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Pewsey; money order and telegraph office, Pewsey. Acreage, 3022; population of the civil parish, 548; of the ecclesiastical, 497. The manor belonged in the Norman times to Edward of Salisbury, passed to the Lovells, and remained with them till the time of Henry VII. Wilcot Manor House and Stowell Lodge are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £175 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Wilcot:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wilcot from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wilcot (Holy Cross))

Maps

Online maps of Wilcot 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:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle