Bromham, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Bromham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Parish church: St. Nicholas
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BROMHAM, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Devizes district, Wilts.
The village stands 1½ mile N of the Kennet and Avon canal, 1¾ S of the Roman road to Bath, 2 miles N by E of Seend r. station, and 3½ NW of Devizes; and has a post office under Chippenham, and an hostelry.
The parish comprises 3,593 acres. Real property, £6,894. Pop., 1,402. Houses, 314. The property is divided among a few.
The manor was held, in the time of Edward the Confessor, by Earl Harold; belonged, in the time of Henry VI., to Lord St. Amand; and passed from him to the Bayntons. Bromham House was destroyed in 1645.
Spy Park house was built in 1650 by the Bayntons; is an interesting embattled edifice, on the verge of a fine hill; was occasionally visited, in the time of Charles II., by the witty but profligate Earl of Rochester; and is now the seat of J. Baynton Starky, Esq.
Sloperton Cottage, in the north, near Bowood Park, was long the residence and eventually the death-place of the poet Moore.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £698. Patron, the Rev. E. Edgell. The church is decorated English, richly sculptured; has a handsome spire; was restored in 1869; and contains tombs of the Bayntons, an alabaster tomb of a Beauchamp, and a monumental tablet to Dr. Season, who wrote “Season on the Seasons.” The churchyard contains the grave of the poet Moore.
There are a Baptist chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, and alms-houses, the latter with £20 a year. Bishop Webb, the Somerset county historian Collinson, and Dr. Season were natives.
The subdistrict contains four parishes and part of another. Acres, 13,903. Pop., 4,884. Houses, 1,103.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Henry Baton, of Bromham, & Mary Bennet 4 Dec. 1681 | Bratton Wiltshire |
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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: Potterne and Cannings
- Province: Canterbury