Burbage, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Burbage, a village and a parish in Wilts, 71 miles from London on the railway from Swindon to Andover. Saver-nake station on the G.W.R. is also in the parish. The village stands near the Kennet and Avon Canal, 6½ miles SSE of Marlborough, is a straggling picturesque place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Marlborough. Acreage of the civil parish, 4013; population, 1213; of the ecclesiastical, 1078. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £231 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is an edifice of 1854 (enlarged and renovated in 1876) with an old tower, and has two memorial windows, the one to Bishop Denison, the other to four natives who fell in the Crimean War. There is a Wesleyan 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 | Burbage All Saints | |
| Hundred | Kinwardstone | |
| Poor Law union | Pewsey |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1561.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Burbage:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1561-1910 | 1561-1900 | 1561-1974 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a building of stone and flint, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave of five bays with clerestory, aisles, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: there are eight stained windows, one of which is a memorial to the Rt. Rev. Edward Denison D.D. Bishop of Salisbury, 1837-54; in 1876 a south aisle was added to the chancel and has since been converted into a side chapel and dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket: in the same year the interior of the church was renovated, as a memorial to the Ven. Thomas Stanton, archdeacon of Wilts and for 23 years vicar of the parish, who died 24 March, 1875: the church was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1854, and affords 450 sittings. The churchyard was extended by an addition of half an acre of land in 1891.
Methodist
Wesleyan Chapel
The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1907 at a cost of £900, has seating for 150 persons.
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 Burbage from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burbage (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Burbage 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: