Hill Deverill, Wiltshire Family History Guide

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Hill Deverill is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Alternative names: Deverill-Hill

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1648
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1587

Nonconformists include:

Children attended the school at Longbridge Deverill

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DEVERILL-HILL, a parish in Warminster district, Wilts; on the Deverill rivulet, 3½ miles S of Warminster town and r. station. Post town, Deverill-Longbridge, under Warminster.

Acres, 1,420. Real property, £1,792. Pop., 149. Houses, 29. The property is divided between two. The Ludlows were some time seated here; and General Ludlow was born in the vicinity.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £76. Patron, the Prebendary thereof. The church has a fine old monument of one of the Ludlows; and is very good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Wiltshire, Hill-Deverill

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

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Hill – Church records ( 3 )
Baptisms of 13 parishes, Mere and S.W. Wiltshire
Author: Wiltshire Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts for Deverill-Hill, 1587-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Hill (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Deverill-Hill, 1648-1981
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Hill (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Hill – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Deverill-Hill, Wiltshire 1773-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

FamilySearch Historical Records

Directories

Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Warminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Wylye
  • Poor Law Union: Warminster
  • Hundred: Heytesbury
  • Province: Canterbury