Winterbourne Earls, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Winterbourne Earls, a parish in Wiltshire, 2½ miles SSW of Porton station on the L. & S.W.R, and 3½ NNE of Salisbury. Post town, Salisbury. Acreage, 1703; population of the civil parish, 237; of the ecclesiastical, with Winterbourne Dantsey, 373. There are two manors. The living is a vicarage annexed to Winterbourne Dantsey. The church was rebuilt in 1868, and is a fine structure of flint and stone in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Winterbourne Earls St. Michael | |
Hundred | Alderbury | |
Poor Law union | Amesbury |
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 Winterbourne Earls:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1557-1917 | 1755-1823 | 1559-1842 | 1558-1949 |
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 Winterbourne Earls from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winterbourne, Earls (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Winterbourne Earls 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: