Homington, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Homington, a parish in Wiltshire, on the Ebbele, a branch of the river Avon, 3½ miles SSW by S of Salisbury station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Salisbury. Acreage, 1270; population of the civil parish, 220; of the ecclesiastical, 507. The parish now forms part of the united benefice of Coombe Bisset-with-Homington, which is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Sarum alternately. The church was restored in 1860.

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 register dates from 1675.

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

Churches

Church of England

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 Homington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Homington (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Homington 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