Edington Wiltshire Family History Guide
Edington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Other places in the parish include: West Coulston, Tinhead, and Baynton.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1678
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
EDINGTON, a tything, a parish, and a sub-district, in Westbury district, Wilts.
The tything lies 3 ½ miles NE by E of Westbury town and r. station; and has a post-office under Westbury.
The parish contains also the tythings of West Coulston, Baynton, and Tinhead. Acres, 5,705. Real property, £9,453. Pop., 994. Houses, 239. The property is all in one estate.
The manor belonged, after the Reformation, to the first Marquis of Winchester; passed to the Dukes of Bolton; and belongs now to W. Taylor, Esq.
A collegiate church was built here, in 1347, by William de Edington, a native of this parish, and bishop of Winchester; was changed, in 1358, into a monastery of Bonhommes; and was given, at the dissolution, to Sir Thomas Seymour.
A palace of the bishops of Salisbury also stood here; but it was plundered and destroyed by Jack Cade’s mob in 1460; and Bishop Ayscough, who was then in the church performing mass, was dragged out and put to death.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value 87. Patron, W. Taylor, Esq. The church is partly the structure built by Bishop Edington; has a cruciform plan; forms an interesting specimen of transition architecture from decorated English to perpendicular; and contains a monument of Sir Simon Taylor by Chantrey, and some ancient monuments and brasses. Charities, £5.
The sub-district contains three parishes, and parts of two others. Pop., 3,490. Houses, 811.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Thomas Seven, of Edington, priest, & Katherine Tutford 3 June 1549 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Thomas Hill, of Edington, & Christian Shabden, of Winchester 16 Apr. 1589 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| William Hevell & Margaret Rundell, of Edington 22 Oct. 1601 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| William Gunston, of Heywood, & Rachel Ellis, of Edington 10 July 1687 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| James Pepler, b., & Jane Chapman, sp., of Edington, lic. 16 Oct. 1754 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Gabriel Morgan, widr., & Lucy White, sp., of Edington 4 May 1758 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Aaron Greathead, widr., of Edington, & Mary Oldan, wid., lic. 26 Oct. 1758 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Francis Merret, of Edington, & Mary Prior, minors, with consent 27 Feb. 1760 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| James Coulrick, b., of Edington, & Mary Stephens, sp., lic. 27 Jan. 1774 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| William Beaven, b., of Edington, & Nelly Ann Nash, sp., with consent, lic. 1 July 1784 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Edward Humphry, b., of Edington, & Sarah Sweetland, sp. 16 Oct. 1784 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| William Dew, b., of Edington, & Mary Lambert, wid. 26 July 1785 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| John Bathard, b., of Edington, & Isiah Pike, sp. 6 Feb. 1794 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| George Taylor, b., of Edington, & Ann Whitaker, sp., lic. 2 July 1817 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Henry Harte, of Tinhead, & Elizabeth Lewes, wid. 28 Oct. 1587 | Bratton Wiltshire |
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Westbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Potterne
- Poor Law Union: Westbury and Whorwellsdown
- Hundred: Whorwellsdown
- Province: Canterbury