South Newton, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Newton, South, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Wiley, 1 mile SSE of Wishford station on the G.W.R., and 2½ miles N by W of Wilton. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Wilton. Acreage of the civil parish, 3129; population, 546; of the ecclesiastical, 603. The Earl of Pembroke is lord of the manor. The Wilton Union Workhouse is in this parish, and has a very handsome chapel attached for the use of the inmates. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church was variously Norman, Transition Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular; went into a ruinous condition; was rebuilt throughout the N side in the Early English style in 1862; was restored throughout the S side, with preservation of the original features, in the same year; has a tower and a S porch, then built; and retains an old three-light E window filled with stained glass.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | South Newton St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Branch and Dole | |
Poor Law union | Wilton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for South Newton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1604-1917 | 1754-1823 | 1604-1841 | 1604-1902 |
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 South Newton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newton, South (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of South Newton 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: