Fittleton, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Fittleton, a parish in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 9 miles S by W of Pewsey station on the G.W.R., and 6 N Amesbury. It includes the tithing of Hacklestone. Post town,Marlborough; money order and telegraph office, Nether-avon. Acreage, 3213; population, 328. The living is a rectory, united with Hacklestone, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £311 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is good.
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 | Fittleton All Saints | |
| Hundred | Elstub and Everley | |
| Poor Law union | Pewsey |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1623.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a building of flint and stone, in the Decorated and Early English styles, consisting of small chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with spire containing 6 bells: there are several monuments to the Beach family, an altar tomb with brasses to Roger Kay, 1612, and memorial windows to the Rev. W. Pearse, d. 1868, and the Rev. Thomas Pearse, d. 1885: the font is Norman: the nave was restored in 1878, and the rest of the church in 1903: there are 195 sittings.
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 Fittleton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fittleton (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Fittleton 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: