Longbridge Deverill with Crockerton, Wiltshire Family History Guide

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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.

Adjacent Parishes

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

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Job Pain, b., of Longbridge Deverel, & Elizabeth Smith, sp. 2 Mar. 1782Bratton Wiltshire
Robert Debnam, of Froome, & Juddith Reade, p. Dever. Longbridge, market daies 5 Feb. 1655/6Mere
Robert Cowerd, of M., & Elizabeth Hains, of Longbridge Deveril 16 Aug. 1752Mere

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Longbridge – Archives and libraries – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
Glastonbury Abbey records at Longleat House : a summary list
Author: Harris, Kate; Smith, William; Somerset Record Society

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

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Longbridge – Church records ( 5 )
Baptisms of 13 parishes, Mere and S.W. Wiltshire
Author: Wiltshire Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts for Crockerton, 1843-1880
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Crockerton (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Deverill-Longbridge, 1607-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Longbridge (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Crockerton, 1843-1982
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Crockerton (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Deverill-Longbridge, 1682-1940
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Deverill-Longbridge (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Crockerton (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Longbridge – History ( 1 )
Longleat : from 1566 to the present time
Author: Fielding, Daphne Vivian, 1904-

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Longbridge – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Longbridge Deverill poor : in & out of the parish 1816-1821, 1826-1835
Author: Hurley, Beryl; Grout, Diana

England, Wiltshire, Deverill-Longbridge – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Deverill-Longbridge, Wiltshire 1780-1850
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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