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.

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:

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:

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