Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Ogbourne St Andrew or Little Okebourne, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on a small affluent of the river Kennet, 2 miles N of Marlborough station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Marlborough; money order and telegraph office, Marlborough. Acreage of parish, 5386; population, 386. Rockley House is the chief residence. A preceptory of the Knights of St John was at Rockley. The limits include a considerable portion of Marlborough Downs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £200 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is ancient, and has a tower.

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 Ogbourne St Andrew from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ogbourne St Andrew 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