Winsley, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Winsley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Wiltshire, created in 1846 from a chapelry in Bradford-on-Avon Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Winsley cum Thurleigh

Parish church: St. Nicholas

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1724
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINSLEY, a chapelry in Bradford parish, Wilts. See Limpley-Stoke.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WINSLEY, a tything and chapelry, in the parish, union, and hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford subdivisions, of Wilts, 1½ mile (W.) from Bradford; the tything containing 2269 inhabitants.

The chapel is dedicated to St. Nicholas: there is a second chapel at Limpley-Stoke. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol; income, £147.

Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848