Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Winterbourne Monkton, a parish in Wiltshire, 8 miles WNW of Marlborough station on the G.W.R. Post town, Swindon; money order and telegraph office, Avebury. Acreage, 1879; population of the civil parish, 210; of the ecclesiastical, 375. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Berwick Bassett, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Winterbourne-Monkton St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Selkley | |
Poor Law union | Marlborough |
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 Winterbourne Monkton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1605-1880 | 1605-1836 | 1605-1879 |
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 Winterbourne Monkton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winterbourne-Monkton (St. Mary Magdalene))
Maps
Online maps of Winterbourne Monkton 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: