Leigh, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Leigh is a chapelry of Ashton Keynes Ancient Parish in Wiltshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1683
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LEIGH, a chapelry in Ashton-Keynes parish, Wilts; on the river Thames, near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 1½ mile NE of Minety r. station, and 3 WSW of Cricklade. Post town, Ashton-Keynes, under Cricklade. Rated property, £2,196. Pop., 312. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Ashton-Keynes, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is good; and there are charities £25.
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 |
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John Blatch, of Leigh, & Elliner Coster, of Russell 3 Mar. 1684/5 | Bratton Wiltshire |
John Bodman, b., of Leigh, & Sarah Helps, sp. 10 Aug. 1758 | Bratton Wiltshire |
James Tanner, widr., & Ann Mills, sp., of Leigh 26 Nov. 1758 | Bratton Wiltshire |
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Cricklade
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Cricklade
- Poor Law Union: Cricklade and Wootton Bassett
- Hundred: Highworth, Cricklade and Staple
- Province: Canterbury