Great Somerford, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Somerford, Great or Broad, a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, with a station on the G.W.R., 91 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chippenham. Acreage, 1660; population, 530. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £410. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church is a handsome stone structure in the Perpendicular style, and has been well restored. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.

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 Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Great or Broad Somerford 1707-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Somerford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Somerford, Great (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Great Somerford 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