West Ashton, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Ashton, West, a tithing, a township, and a chapelry near Steeple-Ashton, Wilts. The tithing lies 2½ miles SE of Trowbridge station on the G.W.R. There is a post and telegraph office; money order office, Trowbridge. Acreage of township, 2025; population, 302. Rood Ashton House is a splendid Gothic mansion, surrounded by a magnificent park of 700 acres. The chapelry is conterminate with the tithing, and is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £200. The church is a neat modern edifice, and has a stone pulpit and a good organ.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
| Civil parish | Steeple Ashton | |
| Hundred | Whorwelsdown | |
| Poor Law union | Westbury and Whorwelsdown |
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 West Ashton:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1847-1880 | 1847-1880 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for West Ashton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashton, West)
Maps
Online maps of West Ashton 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: