All Cannings, Wiltshire Family History Guide
All Cannings is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. Etchilhampton is a chapelry of All Cannings.
Alternative names: All Cannings with Etchilhampton, Allcannings
Other places in the parish include: Allington, Etchilhampton, and Fallaway
Parish church: St. Anne (until c.1928), All Saints
Parish registers begin: 1579
Nonconformists include: Baptist (at Allington)
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All Cannings
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ALLCANNINGS, a tything and a parish in Devizes district, Wilts. The tything lies on the Avon canal, 2 miles S of Wans dyke, 4 miles E by N of Devizes r. station; and has a post office under Devizes. Pop., 602. Houses, 138. The parish contains also the tythings of Allington, Etchilhampton, and Fallaway. Acres, 5,483. Real property, £8,647. Pop., 1,013. Houses, 230. The manor-house is a building of the 14th century, now used as a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, and was formerly a prebend, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £1,100. Patron, Lord Ashburton. The church was partly built in the 17th century. Charities, £19.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Allcannings, a parish in the hund. of Swanborough, union of Devizes, county of Wilts, comprising the tythings of Allcannings, Allington. and Tullaway; 4 miles east by north from Devizes. Living, a rectory, with the chapel of Etchilhampton, in the archd. of Wilts and dio. of Salisbury; rated at £31 16s. 10½d.; gross income £1,187. Patron, in 1835, Alexander Baring, Esq. The church was partly built in the 17th century. There was formerly a prebend here, rated at £13. Annual income of charities connected with this parish, £19 4s. 8d. Pop., in 1821, 749; in 1831, 811. Houses 149. Acres 4,470. A. P. £5,917. Poor rates, in 1837, £378.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Allcannings, 4 miles E. Devize’s. P. 1148.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ALLCANNINGS (St. Anne), a parish, in the union of Devizes, hundred of Swanborough, Devizes and N. divisions of Wilts, 5¾ miles (E.) from Devizes; comprising the chapelry of Etchilhampton and the tythings of Allington and Fullaway, and containing 851 inhabitants. On the downs is St. Anne’s hill, on which a large fair for sheep and horses is held on the 6th of August. The Kennet and Avon canal affords facility for the conveyance of goods.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £31. 16. 10½., and in the gift of Lord Ashburton: the tithes, including those of Etchilhampton, have been commuted for £1204. 5., and the glebe comprises 36 acres. The church is an ancient structure in the Norman style. There is a chapel of ease at Etchilhampton. Miss Anne Lavington, in 1828, bequeathed £500, the interest to be distributed among the poor at Christmas.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Allington
Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Allington, a township or tything in the parish of All-Cannings, Wilts, on the Kennet and Avon canal. There is a daily school here. Pop., in 1801, 145; in 1831, 162. Houses 32. A. P. £1,259. Poor rates, in 1837, £107.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Parish Registers
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Wiltshire Historical Directories
Allington Residents 1855
Tuckwell Mr Joshua Carby
Burgess Henry farmer
Dowse Robert carpenter
Godwin James farmer
Morley Simon shopkeeper
Parry Joseph farmer
Stevens John mason
Source: Post office [afterw.] Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands) 1855
Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Devizes
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Avebury
- Poor Law Union: Devizes
- Hundred: Swanborough (Wiltshire)
- Province: Canterbury