Sevenhampton, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Sevenhampton, a chapelry in Highworth parish, Wiltshire, on the river Cole, 1½ mile SE by S of Highworth, and 2½ miles NW of Shrivenham station on the G.W.R. Post town, Highworth. Population, 226. The living is annexed to Highworth. The church was built in 1864 at a cost of about £3500, and is 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 Sevenhampton:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sevenhampton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sevenhampton 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