East Grimstead Wiltshire Family History Guide

East Grimstead is a chapelry of West Dean Ancient Parish in Wiltshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: None
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• West Grimstead
• West Dean
• Pitton and Farley
• Whiteparish

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GRIMSTEAD (EAST), a chapelry in West Dean parish, Wilts; on the Bishopstoke and Salisbury railway, near Dean r. station, and near the binndary with Hants, 5¼ miles ESE of Salisbury. Post town, West Dean, under Romsey. Acres, 930. Real property, £1,153. Pop., 136. house, 33. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of West Dean, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is a modern edifice, in the late

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, East Grimstead – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for East Grimstead, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, East Grimstead – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for West Dean, 1599-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Dean (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of East Grimstead (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for West Dean, 1754-1947
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Dean (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of East Grimstead (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, East Grimstead – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in East Grimstead, Wiltshire 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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