Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Stanton Fitzwarren, a parish in Wiltshire, 4½ miles. NE of Swindon station on the G.W. R. Post town, Swindon. Acreage, 1113; population of the civil parish, 166; of the ecclesiastical, 202. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £230. The church is in the Norman and Decorated styles, and has been restored. There is a magnificent Norman font with figures, also some fine modern oak carvings. About half a mile from the village, during the construction of the railway, a Roman tesselated pavement was discovered.

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 Stanton Fitzwarren from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Stanton Fitzwarren 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