Easton Grey, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Easton Grey, a parish in Wilts, on Akeman Street and the river Avon, at the boundary with Gloucestershire, 3½ miles W of Malmesbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post and telegraph office under Malmesbury; money order office, Sherstone. Acreage, 1061; population, 127. The manor belonged to the Parrys. An ancient camp called White Walls, situated on the high ground, is believed to have been the Roman station of Mutuantonis, and has yielded Roman coins and pottery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, with tithe rent-chaige .commuted at £266, 25 acres of glebe, and residence. The church is old and in good order.

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 1725.

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 Easton Grey from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Easton, Grey)

Maps

Online maps of Easton Grey 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