Wylye or Wiley, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Wylye or Wiley, a parish, with Wiley village and Deptford tithing, in Wiltshire, on the river Wiley, and having a station on the G.W.R., 116 miles by rail from London, and 7½ NW by W of Wilton. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. Acreage, 2314; population, 414. There is a parish council of eight members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Pembroke. There are extensive ancient entrenchments called Badbury Ring and Yarnborough Camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church, rebuilt in 1844, is in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled western tower. There is a Congregational 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 | Wily St. Mary | |
Hundred | Branch and Dole | |
Poor Law union | Wilton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wylye or Wiley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wily (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Wylye or Wiley 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: