Corston, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Corston, a tithing-chapelry in St Paul-Malmesbury parish, Wiltshire, 2½ miles SSW of Malmesbury station on the G.W.R., and 7 N by E of Chippenham. It has a post office under Malmesbury; money order and telegraph office, Malmesbury. Population, 452. The living is a vicarage, with Eodbourne annexed, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £85 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Perpendicular English, and has an elegant bell-turret.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
| Civil parish | Malmesbury | |
| Hundred | Malmesbury | |
| Poor Law union | Malmesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The registers date from the year 1881; before that period they were kept at Malmesbury.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints
The church of All Saints, formerly a chapel of ease belonging to Malmesbury, is a modern structure in mixed styles, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and western turret containing 2 small bells. The church was restored and a new chancel added in 1911: there are 120 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
The Congregational chapel was erected in 1897, to seat 60 persons.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Corston from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Corston 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: