Wardour, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Wardour, a parish in Wiltshire, 2½ miles WSW of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Tisbury, under Salisbury. Acreage, 2015; population, 861. Wardour Castle is the seat of Lord Arundel of Wardour; was built in 1776-89; is in the Grecian style, with a centre and crescent wings; has a rotunda staircase, 144 feet round; contains a rich collection of paintings and other works of art, and stands in a finely wooded park about 5 miles in circuit. The manor passed from the Walerans to the St Martins. An ancient castle, now in ruins, was built by John, Lord Lovell in 1392; it passed through Lord Lovell, Lord Audley, and Lord Willoughby de Broke, and others, to the Arundells; was the birthplace of Lord Chief-Justice Hyde, of the 16th century; and was besieged, captured, and ruined in the Civil Wars of Charles I. The living is annexed to Tisbury.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of Wardour 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: