Stanton St Quintin, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Stanton St Quintin, a parish in Wiltshire, 5 miles NNW of Chippenham station on the G.W.R. Post town, Chippen-ham; money order and telegraph office, Sutton Benger. Acreage, 1807; population, 255. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £210 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Radnor. The church is ancient and good. The Earl of Radnor is lord of the manor.

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 St Quintin from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Stanton St Quintin 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