Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Tytherton Lucas, an ecclesiastical parish in Wiltshire, 4 miles ENE of Chippenham station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chippenham. Population, 39. The living is a rectory annexed to Chippenham. The church is a building of stone, rebuilt in the early part of the nineteenth century, and contains a very curious Norman font.

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 Tytherton Lucas:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tytherton Lucas from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Tytherton Lucas 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