Buttermere, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Buttermere, a parish in Wilts, 5 miles S of Hungerford railway station. Post town, Hungerford, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Shalbourne. Acreage, 1502; population, 138. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £155 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford.

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

The register dates from the year 1727.

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Buttermere:

Churches

Church of England

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 Buttermere from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Buttermere 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