Sherston Parva or Sherston Pinkney, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Sherston Parva or Sherston Pinkney, a parish in Wilts, adjacent to Sherston Magna. Post town, Sherston, under Malmesbury. Acreage, 966; population, 126. The living is a rectory, annexed to Sherston Magna. There is no church.

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.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sherston Parva or Sherston Pinkney from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sherston Parva or Sherston-Pinkney)

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