Woodborough, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Woodborough, a parish, with a village, in Wiltshire, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, with a station on the G.W.R., 79 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Pewsey. Acreage, 1023; population, 424. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. An extensive wharf for coal, timber, slate, and artificial manure stands near the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £280. The church is in the Early English style, and has been restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a workmen's hall.
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 | Woodborough St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Swanborough | |
Poor Law union | Pewsey |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Woodborough 1567-1837, Wiltshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Woodborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1560-1880 | 1568-1837 | 1605-1880 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Woodborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woodborough (St. Mary Magdalene))
Maps
Online maps of Woodborough 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: