Figheldean, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Figheldean or Fittledean, a parish in Wilts, on the river Avon, 4 miles N of Amesbury, and 8 from Porton station on the L. & S.W.R., and has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Netheravon. It includes the hamlet of Ablington. Acreage, 5439; population, 472. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £227 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is ancient, and was repaired in 1860. There is a Primitive Methodist 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 | Figheldean St. Michael | |
Hundred | Amesbury | |
Poor Law union | Amesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1660.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Figheldean:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1605-1917 | 1754-1800 | 1654-1845 | 1654-1912 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch, and a western tower containing a clock and 3 bells: the east and four other windows are stained: in the chancel are several monuments to the Poore family, and in the porch lie two ancient effigies in armour, discovered in a field near the adjoining village of Milston: the chancel retains an ancient piscina and credence: a part of the staircase to the rood loft remains in the north aisle: the church was restored in 1861, and affords sittings for 228 persons.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
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 Figheldean from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Figheldean (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Figheldean 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: