Market Lavington, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Market Lavington is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Wiltshire.
Other places in the parish include: Easterton.
Alternative names: East Lavington
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1673
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Adjacent Parishes
Market Lavington Parish Registers
Market Lavington Marriages 1673 to 1812 Wiltshire Parish Registers : Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and John Sadler. Vol. 8. Published London 1909. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Marriages Out of Parish
| Details | Place of Marriage |
|---|---|
| Jeremie Shirers, of Lavington, & Elizabeth Bromewiche 18 June 1593 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| Thomas Stantiall, of Westbury, & Mary Hiscok, of Market Lavington 5 April 1684 | Bratton Wiltshire |
| William Hampton, b., of Market Lavington, & Jane Cook, sp. 4 July 1791 | Bratton Wiltshire |
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LAVINGTON (EAST), a small town and a parish in Devizes district, Wilts. The town stands in a fertile valley, near the Ridge way, and on the N border of Salisbury plain, 5½ miles S of Devizes r. station; is irregularly built; consists chiefly of two streets; is commonly called Market-Lavington; and has a post-office of that name under Devizes. A workmen’s hall was erected in 1864. A weekly market was formerly held, but has been discontinued; and malting is carried on.
The parish contains also the tything of Easterton. Acres, 4,721. Real property, £7,574. Pop. in 1851. 1,721; in 1861, 1,583. Houses, 381. The decrease of pop. was caused by the removal of machinery works and of a foundry. The manor belonged once to the Plantagenets; and passed to the Beauchamps, the Montagues, and the Bouveries. A mansion, on a picturesque site, about ½ a mile W of the town, was built in 1866 by the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £300. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church stands on an eminence W of the town; is later English, with a steeple; and was restored in 1862. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists, two national schools, and charities £20. Bishop Tanner, author of “Notitia Monastica,“ was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bankrupts
Cleaver Henry, Market Lavington, Wilts, linen draper, Jan. 18, 1831.