Bulford, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Bulford, a parish in Wilts, on the river Avon, 2 miles NNE of Amesbury, and 4½ N by W of Porton railway station. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Amesbury. Acreage, 3642; population, 341. Bulford House is a chief residence. Some Druidical stones occur, and an earthwork, supposed to represent an ancient British village, is adjacent within Durrington. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £100. The church is picturesque, and there is also 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 | Bulford St. John | |
Hundred | Amesbury | |
Poor Law union | Amesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Bulford 1608-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1654, Bishops Transcripts from 1608.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Bulford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1608-1911 | 1791-1928 | 1608-1933 | 1608-1919 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Leonard (parish church)
The church of St. Leonard is an ancient edifice of stone and brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, modern north transept, south porch, and a western tower containing one bell: the chancel is separated from the nave by a Norman arch. In 1891 an organ was provided at a cost of £150: the transept is separated from the nave by a wooden screen and is used as a vestry: the church was completely restored in 1911: there are 200 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
The Congregational chapel, erected in 1805 and seating 150, had a Sunday school attached.
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 Bulford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bulford (St. John))
Maps
Online maps of Bulford 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: