Heddington, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Heddington, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands under Roundway Hill, adjacent to the Julian Way, 3 miles S by E of Calne station on the G.W.R., with a post office under Calne; money order and telegraph office, Bromham. It is supposed by many antiquaries to occupy the site of the Roman station Verlucio. Many Roman coins, urns, and other relics have been found in the village and its neighbourhood. The parish comprises 1782 acres; population of the civil parish, 316; of the ecclesiastical, 487. An ancient camp is on Bagdon Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £215 with residence. The church has a pinnacled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel and a workmen's club.
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 | Heddington St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Calne | |
Poor Law union | Calne |
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 Heddington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1895 | 1756-1807 | 1539-1933 | 1538-1963 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Andrew (parish church)
The church of St. Andrew is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, vestry, north porch and a western embattled tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the east window is stained, and there are tablets to the Revs. James Thomas Du Boulay, ob. 1836, and Henry Rogers M.A. ob. 1669: a floor stone to the Rev. Francis Rogers, ob. 1800, and a brass to George John Majendie M.A. ob. 1842: there are 180 sittings.
Methodist
Wesleyan Chapel
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Heddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heddington (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Heddington 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: