Heywood, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Heywood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1849 from a chapelry in Westbury Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Hawkeridge.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1849
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1849

Nonconformists include: Independent Methodist

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HEYWOOD, a chapelry in Westbury parish, Wilts; near the Somerset and Weymouth railway, and near Salisbury plain and the boundary with Somerset, 1 mile N of Westbury.

It was constituted in 1849; and its post town is Westbury. Rated property, £3,179. Pop. 516. Houses, 119. The property is divided among a few. Heywood House was built by the Leys, in the time of James I.; and passed to the Phippses. There is a mineral spring.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £300. Patron, H. G. G. Ludlow, Esq. The church is very good..

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
William Deacon, of Heywood, & Joan Boucher, of Ashton, lic. 22 June 1598	Bratton Wiltshire
William Gunston, of Heywood, & Rachel Ellis, of Edington 10 July 1687	Bratton Wiltshire