Upton Lovell, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Upton Lovell, a parish in Wiltshire, on the river Wiley, 2 miles SE of Heytesbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Bath; telegraph office, Heytesbury. Acreage, 1424; population, 233. The manor belonged anciently to the Lovells. An ingeniously constructed bridge here spans the Wiley. A large woollen cloth factory is in the village. There are large tumuli and other antiquities. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a small edifice with a low square tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Hundred | Heytesbury | |
Poor Law union | Warminster |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Upton Lovell:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1611-1880 | 1754-1823 | 1622-1932 | 1611-1880 |
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 Upton Lovell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Upton-Lovell)
Maps
Online maps of Upton Lovell 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: