Patney, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Patney, a parish in Wiltshire, on the river Avon, 3 miles W by S of Woodborough station on the G.W.R., and 4½ ESE of Devizes. Post town, Devizes; money order and telegraph office, Woodborough. Acreage, 884; population, 106. The manor belongs to the Earl of Radnor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is ancient but good, has a wooden spire, and was restored in 1877.

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 Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Patney 1594-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.

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

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 Patney from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Patney 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