Slaughterford, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Slaughterford, a parish in Wiltshire, 5 miles from Chippenham station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Yatton Reynell. Acreage, 475; population of the civil parish, 106; of the ecclesiastical, 613. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Biddeston. The church was rebuilt in 1823, with the exception of the tower, which dates back to the 15th century, and was again restored in 1883. There are a paper mill and a brewery.

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 Slaughterford from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Slaughterford 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