Tytherington, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Tytherington, a parish in Wiltshire, 1 mile S by W of Heytesbury station on the G.W.R. Post town, Heytesbury. The church is an ancient and plain building of stone.
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 | Tytherington St. James | |
Hundred | Heytesbury | |
Poor Law union | Warminster |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Churches
Church of England
St. James (parish church)
The church of St. James is a plain but ancient building of stone in the Early Decorated style, about 19 feet wide and 50 feet long, with a stone covered roof and a western bell cot containing one bell: it was restored in 1892 and will seat about 70 persons.
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 Tytherington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tytherington (St. James))
Maps
Online maps of Tytherington 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: