West Kington, Wiltshire Family History Guide
West Kington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1754
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- West Littleton, Gloucestershire
- Nettleton
- Marshfield, Gloucestershire
- North Wraxall
- Tormarton, Gloucestershire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KINGTON (WEST), a parish, with a village, in Chippenham district, Wilts; near Akeman street and the boundary with Gloucester, 8 miles NW by W of Chippenham r. station. Post town, Marshfield, under Chippenham.
Acres, 2,444. Real property, £4,115. Pop., 405. Houses, 79. The manor belongs to W. Codrington, Esq. Building stone is quarried. Vestiges exist of a Roman camp. The parish is a meet for the Beaufort hounds.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £417. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is ancient, and has a tower. Bishop Latimer was rector.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Chippenham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Malmesbury
- Poor Law Union: Chippenham
- Hundred: Chippenham
- Province: Canterbury