Sutton Veney, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Sutton Veney, a parish in Wiltshire, 1½ mile WSW of Heytesbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Warminster; money order and telegaph office, Warminster. Acreage, 4111; population, 723. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £370 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1868 at a cost of £7000. There is a Congregational chapel. Greenhill House is the chief residence.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sutton Veney from the following:

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

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