Brokenborough, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Brokenborough, a parish in Wilts, 2 miles NW of Malmesbury station, on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Malmesbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2634; population, 381. The manor belonged to the Saxon kings, and passed to the Molines. Some Roman remains have been found. The living is a vicarage annexed to the vicarage of Charlton in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is good. The Malmesbury Union Workhouse is situated in this parish.
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 | Brokenborough St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Malmesbury | |
Poor Law union | Malmesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1778.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Brokenborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1605-1859 | 1609-1744 | 1609-1859 |
Churches
Church of England
St. John the Baptist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, north porch and a small wooden turret: there are sittings for 200 persons.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
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 Brokenborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brokenborough (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Brokenborough 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: