Seend, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Seend is a chapelry of Melksham Ancient Parish in Wiltshire.
Other places in the parish include: Seend Cleeve.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1612
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1594
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SEEND, a chapelry, with a village, in Melksham parish, Wilts; on the Mid Wilts railway, 4 miles W by S of Devizes. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Melksham.
Acres, 2,730. Real property, £12,907; of which £5,000 are in mines. Pop., 1,086. Houses, 241. The property is considerably divided.
The manor belonged to the Despencers, passed to the Bohuns, belongs now to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury, and is held in lease by the Awdrys.
A rich bed of iron-stone lies on the lower greensand formation; is said to have been worked by the ancients; and was worked by three successive modern companies; but was lying in abeyance in 1868.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Melksham, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is old and interesting, and has a pinnacled tower.
There are two Methodist chapels and a national school.
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 |
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James Moor, widr., of Seend, & Mary Harris, sp., lic. 5 Dec. 1815 | Bratton Wiltshire |
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Seend, 1841-1891
Church Records
Bishop’s transcripts for Seend, 1594-1880 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Seend (Wiltshire)
Parish registers for Seend, 1612-1955 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Seend (Wiltshire)
Church History
Seend Methodist Chapel, 1775 to 1975 Author: Griffiths, Harold J.
History
Seend : a Wiltshire village past and present Author: Bradby, Edward
Taxation
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Melksham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Potterne
- Poor Law Union: Melksham
- Hundred: Melksham
- Province: Canterbury