Nunton and Bodenham, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Nunton and Bodenham is a chapelry of Downton Ancient Parish in Wiltshire.
Other places in the parish include: Bodenham.
Alternative names: Nunton, Nunton with Bodenham, Nurton and Bodenham
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1672
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1623
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NUNTON-WITH-BODENHAM, a parish in Alderbury district, Wilts; on the river Avon, 2½ miles SSE of Salisbury r. station.
It contains the hamlets of Nunton and Bodenham, the latter of which has a post-office under Salisbury. Acres, with Downton parish and Langley-Wood extra-parochial tract, 13,221. Real property, with Charlton, £3,531. Rated property of N.with-B. alone, £1,382. Pop., 282. Houses, 64. The property is divided among a few.
New Hall belonged formerly to J. T. Batt, Esq.; belongs now to Major-General Buckley; and contains a valuable collection of pictures.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Downton, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church was recently restored by Wyatt, and contains a monument of J. T. Batt, Esq.
There are a Baptist chapel, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Alderbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Wilton
- Poor Law Union: Alderbury
- Hundred: Downton
- Province: Canterbury