Berwick St Leonard, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Berwick St Leonard is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. Sedgehill is a chapelry of Berwick St Leonard.

Alternative names: St Leonard Berwick

Parish church: St Leonard

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1723
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BERWICK-ST. LEONARD, a parish in Tisbury district, Wilts; 1 mile E of Hindon, and 2¾ NNW of Tisbury r. station. Post Town, Hindon, under Salisbury. Acres, 970. Real property, with Hindon, Chicklade, and Fonthill-Gifford, £5,111. Pop., 40. Houses, 8.

The property is divided among a few. Remains of the old manor-house, the seat of the Howes from 1629 to 1735, where the Prince of Orange slept in 1668 on his way to London, are now part of a suite of farm-buildings.

The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Sedghill, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £374. Patron, the Marquis of Westminster. The church was recently restored.

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

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Berwick, St. Leonard, a parish in the division of Hindon, hund. of Dunworth, union of Tisbury, county of Wilts; 1 mile east of Hindon. Living, a rectory, to which is annexed the chapelry of Sedghill, in the archd. and dio. of Salisbury; valued at £8 6s. 8d.; gross income £389. Patronage in dispute. The great and small tithes, the property of the clerical rector, were commuted in 1818. Pop., in 1801, 36; in 1831, 51. Houses 8. Acres 970. A.P. £1,025. Poor rates, in 1837, £19.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Berwick-St. Leonard – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Berwick-St. Leonard, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Berwick-St. Leonard – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Berwick-St. Leonard, 1622-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Berwick-St. Leonard (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Berwick-St. Leonard, 1723-1961
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Berwick-St. Leonard (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Berwick-St. Leonard – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Berwick-St. Leonard, Wiltshire, 1780-1876
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Tisbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Chalke
  • Poor Law Union: Tisbury
  • Hundred: Dunworth
  • Province: Canterbury