Wroughton, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Wroughton, a parish, with four tithings, in Wiltshire, 3½ miles SSW of Swindon station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Swindon. Acreage, 7307; population, 2511. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. Wroughton House and Salthrop Lodge are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is of the 11th century, and was restored in 1854. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school.
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 | Wroughton St. John the Baptist and St. Helen | |
Hundred | Elstub and Everley | |
Poor Law union | Highworth and Swindon |
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 Wroughton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1606-1870 | 1606-1837 | 1606-1844 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wroughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wroughton (St. John the Baptist and St. Helen))
Maps
Online maps of Wroughton 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: