Yatesbury Wiltshire Family History Guide

Yatesbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1706
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include: Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Hilmarton
• Highway
• Berwick Bassett
• Cherhill
• Winterbourne Monkton
• Compton Bassett
• Avebury

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

YATESBURY, a parish in Calne district, Wilts; 4½ miles E by N of Calne r. station. Post town, Calne, under Chippenham. Acres, 1,667. Real property, £2,529. Pop., 231. Houses, 57. The property is divided among three. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £510. Patron, the Rev. A.Smith. The church was partly restored, partly rebuilt, in 1855. There is a Church school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

County: Wiltshire
Civil Registration District: Calne
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
Diocese: Salisbury
Rural Deanery: Avebury
Poor Law Union: Calne
Hundred: Calne
Province: Canterbury