Atworth with South Wraxall, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Atworth with South Wraxall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1846 from Atworth chapelry and South Wraxall chapelry in Bradford-on-Avon Ancient Parish.

Status: Ecclesiastical Parish; Civil Parish (after 1884)

Atworth was formerly a tithing of Bradford, but by an order of the Local Government Board, 19th December, 1884, the tithing of Atworth was amalgamated with Great and Little Chatfield and Cottles to form the civil parish of Atworth (ecclesiastically they remain as before.)1

Alternative names: Atford, Atworth

Other places in the parish include: Upper Wraxall, Lower Wraxall, and South Wraxall.

Parish church: St Michael (rebuilt in 1832)

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1645
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585

Separate registers exist for South Wraxall:

  • Parish registers: 1672
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ATWORTH, or Atford, a chapelry in Bradford parish, Wilts; near the Roman road, 3 miles WNW of Melksham r. station. Post Town, Melksham. Acres, 1,170. Real property, with South Wraxall, £5,337. Pop., 949. Houses, 225. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage with South Wraxall, in the diocese of Salisbury Value, £255. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church was built in 1828. There are an Independent chapel, and charities £17.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Atworth, 3 miles N. E. Great Bradford. P. included therein.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ATWORTH, a tything and chapelry, in the parish of Great Bradford, union and hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions and Trowbridge and Bradford sub-divisions of Wilts, 4 miles (N. E. by N.) from Bradford; the tything containing 824 inhabitants. The chapel, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt a few years since: there is a second chapel at South Wraxall. The living is a perpetual curacy; income, £195; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Atworth, 1841-1891

Church Records

Births and baptisms, 1790-1836 Author: Independent Church (Atworth)

Bishop’s transcripts for Atworth, 1585-1880 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Atworth (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for South Wraxall, 1622-1880 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of South Wraxall (Wiltshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Bradford (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Atworth (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Atworth, 1638-1973 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Atworth (Wiltshire)

Parish register printouts of Atworth, Wiltshire, England (Independent) ; christenings, 1790-1836 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Land and property

Surveyors book, 1809-1894 Author: Atworth (Wiltshire)

Taxation

Land tax assessments in Atworth, Wiltshire, 1773-1884 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Directories

Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bradford on Avon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Potterne
  • Poor Law Union: Bradford
  • Hundred: Bradford
  • Province: Canterbury
  1.  Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889