Colerne, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Colerne is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- Bathford Somerset
- Biddestone
- Batheaston Somerset
- Slaughterford
- Box
- Marshfield Gloucestershire
- North Wraxall
- Ditteridge
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COLERNE, a parish in Chippenham district, Wilts; on an affluent of the river Avon, near the Fosse way, 2 miles NNE of Box r. station, and 3½ WNW of Corsham. It has a post office under Chippenham. Acres, 3,620. Real property, £6,010. Pop., 1,040. Houses, 239. The property is subdivided. The surface is hilly. One ancient camp is on Colerne Down; and another is in Colerne Park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £92. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman, and in tolerable Condition; and there is an independent chapel. Charities, £13.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Colerne Parish Registers
Marriages at Colerne 1661-1812 and Marriages at Colerne 1560-1575 and 1640-1651 can be found in the volumes of Phillimore’s Wiltshire Parish Registers: Marriages below.
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Chippenham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Malmesbury
- Poor Law Union: Chippenham
- Hundred: Chippenham
- Province: Canterbury