Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire. Monkton Deverill is a chapelry of Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton.
Other places in the parish include: Crockerton.
Alternative names: Longbridge Deverill, Longridge Deverill
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton
- Parish registers: 1682
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607; 1622
Crockerton
- Parish registers: 1843
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent Methodist, and Primitive Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DEVERILL-LONGBRIDGE, a parish and a sub-district in Warminster district, Wilts. The parish lies on the Deverill rivulet, 3 miles S of Warminster town and r. station; includes the hamlet of Crockerton; and has a post office under Warminster.
Acres, 4,156. Real property, £5,850. Pop., 1,197. Houses, 286. The property is all in one estate. The manor belonged to the abbey of Glastonbury; took the after-part of its name from an ancient bridge, supposed to have been built by the abbots; and passed to the Thynnes, ancestors of the Marquis of Bath.
The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Crockerton and Deverill-Monckton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £350. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church contains monuments of the Thynnes, and an old font; and is good. Thynne’s alms-houses have £90; and other charities £20.
The sub-district contains seven parish-Pop., 3,927. Houses, 896.
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 |
|---|---|
| Job Pain, b., of Longbridge Deverel, & Elizabeth Smith, sp. 2 Mar. 1782 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Robert Debnam, of Froome, & Juddith Reade, p. Dever. Longbridge, market daies 5 Feb. 1655/6 | Mere |
| Robert Cowerd, of M., & Elizabeth Hains, of Longbridge Deveril 16 Aug. 1752 | Mere |
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Warminster
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Wylye
- Poor Law Union: Warminster
- Hundred: South Damerham
- Province: Canterbury