Wingfield or Winkfield, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Wingfield or Winkfield, a parish, with Rowley tithing, in Wiltshire, 2 miles WSW of Trowbridge station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Trowbridge; money order and telegraph office, Trowbridge. Acreage, 1389; population of the civil parish, 302; of the ecclesiastical, 319. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Wingfield House is a seat of the Caillard family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £175 with residence. The church is a small structure of stone in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ecclesiastical parish | Winkfield St. Andrew |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wingfield or Winkfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winkfield (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Wingfield or Winkfield 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: