Burbage Wiltshire Family History Guide
Burbage is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1561
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Easton Royal
- Collingbourne Kingston
- South Savernake with Brimslade and Cadley
- East Grafton
- Great Bedwyn
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BURBAGE, a village and a parish in Pewsey district, Wilts. The village stands near the Kennet and Avon canal, and near the Reading and Devizes railway, in the neighbourhood of Savernake r. station, 6½ miles SSE of Marlborough; is a straggling picturesque place; and has a post-office under Marlborough.
The parish comprises 3,283 acres. Real property, £5,813. Pop., 1,603. Houses, 323. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £363. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury.
The church is an edifice of 1854, with an old tower; and has two memorial windows, the one to Bishop Denison, the other to four natives who fell in the Crimean war. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £101.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BURBAGE (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Pewsey, hundred of Kinwardstone, Marlborough and Ramsbury, and S. divisions of Wilts, 4¾ miles (E. by N.) from Pewsey; containing 1455 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7. 3. 1½.; net income, £257; patron, the Prebendary of Hurstborne and Burbage in the Cathedral of Salisbury.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Pewsey
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebendal of Hurstbourne and Burbage
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Marlborough
- Poor Law Union: Pewsey
- Hundred: Kinwardstone
- Province: Canterbury