Durrington, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Durrington, a parish in Wilts, on the river Avon, 2½ miles N of Amesbury, and 6 from Porton station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Amesbury. Acreage, 2702; population, 393. An earthwork here, called Durrington Walls or Long Walls, is supposed to be the enclosure of an ancient British village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £199. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1851. There is 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 | |
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 Durrington 1591-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1591.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Durrington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1591-1880 | 1591-1836 | 1599-1880 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a building of flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, and western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells: the south aisle is Norman: the church was rebuilt in 1851, with the exception of the tower, which is Perpendicular; the remainder is in the Early English style: a Norman arcade has been retained: there are four memorial windows to the Rev. R. Webb M.A. a former rector, and three others are also stained: in the chancel is a canopied double piscina with credence over, and in the south aisle a piscina: the pulpit, choir stalls and many benches are of ancient carved oak: there are 300 sittings.
Congregational
Congregational Chapel
The Congregational chapel will seat 150.
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 Durrington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Durrington)
Maps
Online maps of Durrington 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: