Langley Burrell, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Langley Burrell, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, and 1½ mile from Chippenham station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Chippenham. Acreage, 1882; population of the civil parish, 1445; of the ecclesiastical, 351. A causeway, 4½ miles long with sixty-four arches, extends here and crosses the Avon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £315 with residence. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower, A chapelry called St Paul's constituted in 1855, comprises a portion of this parish and portions of the parishes of Chippenham, Hardcnhuish, and Kington St Michael. The Parish Councils Act severed the southern part of the old parish, and put it into the district of Chippenham Without.
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 | Langley-Burrel St. Peter | |
Hundred | Chippenham | |
Poor Law union | Chippenham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1607.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Langley Burrell:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1604-1879 | 1654-1658 | 1605-1878 | 1605-1878 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, with south chantry, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch with parvise, and an embattled tower on the south side containing 4 bells: the nave and portions of the chancel are Early English, the tower Decorated, and the north aisle and south chantry Perpendicular. The Cobham arms (a chevron with three stars) appear on the ceiling of the nave, and to this family is traditionally ascribed the building, or, more correctly, the repairing of the church: against the west wall of the tower formerly stood a slab bearing male and female heads, now placed under a mural canopy: the church was restored in 1898, under the superintendence of Mr. Harold Brakspear F.S.A. at a cost of £900: there are 246 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Langley Burrell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Langley-Burrel (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Langley Burrell 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
Parochial History
By an Order of the Local Government Board, dated September 29th, 1894, Langley Burrell was divided into two parishes, one being called Langley Burrell Within, and included in the municipal borough of Chippenham; the other, known as Langley Burrell Without. Under the Borough of Chippenham (Extension) Order, 1914, that part of Langley Burrell Without (Lowden and Sheldon area), adjacent to Chippenham, was included in the borough.
This place acquired its suffix from the Burrell or Borel family, who held the manor in the 13th century.