Wilcot, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Wilcot is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Other places in the parish include: Stowell, Oare, and Draycott Foliatt.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1564
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Alton Barnes
- Alton Priors
- Overton Heath
- Woodborough
- Overton
- Pewsey
- Huish
- Manningford Bruce
- North Newnton
- Manningford Abbas
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WILCOT, a parish, with a village and three tythings, in Pewsey district, Wilts; on the Avon and Kennet canal, 1½ mile W by N of Pewsey r. station. Post town, Pewsey, under Marlborough.
Acres, 2,668. Real property, £3,662. Pop., 651. Houses, 137. The manor belonged, in the Norman times, to Edward of Salisbury; passed to the Lovells, and remained with them till the time of Henry VII.; and, with W. House, belongs now to Lieut.-Col. G. W. Wroughton.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £143. Patron, Lieut.-Col. G. W. Wroughton. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bankrupts
Puckeridge James, Draycott, Wilcott, Wiltshire, farmer, June 22, 1830.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Wilcot, 1841-1891
Church Records
Manors
Estate survey in Wilcot, Wiltshire, 1696 Author: Manor of Wilcot (Wiltshire)
Manor court rolls in Wilcot, Wiltshire, 1677-1750 Author: Manor of Wilcot. Court (Wiltshire)
Taxation
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Pewsey
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Marlborough
- Poor Law Union: Pewsey
- Hundred: Swanborough (Wiltshire)
- Province: Canterbury