Stanton St Bernard, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Stanton St Bernard, a parish in Wiltshire, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, 3 miles NW by N of Woodborough station on the G.W.R., and 6½ E of Devizes. Post town and telegraph office, Woodborough. Acreage, 2043; population, 273. The manor belongs to the Earl of Pembroke. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church was rebuilt in 1833, and is a stone building in the Gothic 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.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stanton St Bernard from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanton St. Bernard (All Saints))

Maps

Online maps of Stanton St Bernard 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