Semley, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Semley, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 101 miles from London and 3 NE of Shaftesbury. It has a post office under Shaftesbury; money order and telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 2985; population, 643. There is a parish council consisting of nine members and a chairman. Building stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £450 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The old church was pulled down in 1874 and the present building erected in 1875; it is of stone, in the Early Decorated style. There is a Baptist chapel.

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

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Semley from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Semley 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