Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Winterbourne Stoke, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on Salisbury Plain, 4 miles N of Wishford station on the G.W.R., and 5½ W by S of Amesbury. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Shrewton. Acreage, 3572; population, 249. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. The manor belongs to Lord Ashburton. Many barrows and traces of an ancient camp are on the downs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £185 with residence. Patron, Lord Ashburton. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone with a square central embattled tower.

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.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Winterbourne Stoke:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Winterbourne Stoke from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winterbourne-Stoke (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of Winterbourne Stoke 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