Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire Family History Guide

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Limpley Stoke is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1846 from Bradford-on-Avon Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1707
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LIMPLEY-STOKE, a village and a chapelry in Bradford parish, Wilts.

The village stands near the river Avon, the Kennet and Avon canal, the Bathampton branch of the Great Western railway, and the boundary with Somerset, 3¼ miles W of Bradford; presents a romantic appearance, as seen from the ascent toward Freshford; commands a curious view of the river, the canal, and the railway, winding side by side, at different elevations, down the valley; is environed by hanging woods and orchards, and by a wild declivity, with picturesque features; and has a railway station, a recent hydropathic establishment, and a girls’ reformatory.

The chapelry was reconstituted in 1846, and is conjoined with Winsley. Post town, Bradford-on-Avon. Pop. in 1861, 985. Houses, 218. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £147. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is small; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STOKE, LIMPLEY, a tything, in the chapelry of Winsley, parish, union, and hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford subdivisions, of Wilts, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Bradford; containing 377 inhabitants. There is a chapel dedicated to St. Mary.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Thomas Amesbury, b., of Limpley Stoke, & Margaret Pill, sp. 20 Oct. 1763Bratton Wiltshire
  

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, Limpley-Stoke – Church history ( 1 )
Baptist Chapel, Limpley Stoke

England, Wiltshire, Limpley-Stoke – Church records ( 2 )
The bishop’s transcripts and parish registers of Limpley Stoke, baptisms & burials, 1622-1837
Author: Hassell, Margory; Hurley, Beryl; Hurley, John; Wiltshire Family History Society; Church of England. Chapelry of Limpley-Stoke (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Limpley-Stoke, 1611-1880
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Limpley-Stoke (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Limpley-Stoke – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Bradford, Wiltshire 1773-1884
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bradford on Avon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Potterne
  • Poor Law Union: Bradford
  • Hundred: Bradford
  • Province: Canterbury