Westwood cum lford, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Westwood-cum-lford, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, 2 miles SW of Bradford station on the G.W.R. Post town, Bradford-on-Avon. Acreage, 832; population of the civil parish, 540; of the ecclesiastical, 527. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Freestone is largely quarried in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £220 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone in the Early English style, and contains some good oak carving. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The Bradford Workhouse is situated in this parish.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Westwood cum lford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westwood)

Maps

Online maps of Westwood cum lford 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:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle