Great Wishford, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Wishford, Great, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on the river Wiley, with a station on the G.W.R., 121 miles from London, and 2½ NNW of Wilton. It has a post and money order office under Salisbury; telegraph office, Wilton. Acreage, 1679; population, 335. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Pembroke. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church was enlarged in 1829, and has been restored. There are an endowed school, almshouses, and other charities.
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 | Wishford St. Giles | |
Hundred | Branch and Dole | |
Poor Law union | Wilton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Great Wishford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1917 | 1754-1790 | 1558-1933 | 1559-1922 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Wishford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wishford, Great (St. Giles))
Maps
Online maps of Great Wishford 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: