Netheravon, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Netheravon, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on the river Avon, 5 miles N by W of Amesbury, and 7 S by E of Woodborough station on the G.W.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Salisbury. The parish contains also the tithing of Chisenbury-de-la-Folly. Acreage, 3536; population of the civil parish, 505; of the ecclesiastical, 552. There is a parish council consisting of nine members and a chairman. The manor, with Netheravon House, belongs to the Beach family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £165 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is ancient, has been restored, and has a pinnacled tower. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Sydney Smith was curate.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Netheravon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Netheravon (All Saints))

Maps

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• 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