Melchet Park, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Melchet Park is an extra-parochial place.

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Adjacent Parishes

• Whiteparish
• Earldoms
• Plaitford
• Landford

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MELCHET PARK, an extra-parochial tract in Alderbury district, Wilts; 9½ miles SE of Salisbury. Acres, 830. Pop. 31. It was formerly a royal forest; was purchased in 1783 by Alexander Baring, afterwards Lord Ashburton; contains a mansion on an elevated site, commanding an extensive and charming view; and has, on an eminence, a Hondo temple, erected in 1800, after designs by Daniel, to the memory of Warren Hastings.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Wiltshire
• Civil Registration District: Romsey
• Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
• Diocese: Not Applicable
• Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
• Poor Law Union: Romsey
• Hundred: Alderbury
• Province: Canterbury