Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Winterbourne Bassett is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Alternative names: Bassett Winterbourne
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1681
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Primitive Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WINTERBOURNE-BASSETT, a parish in Marlborough district, Wilts; 5 miles SSE of Wootton-Bassett r. station. It has a post-office under Swindon.
Acres, 2,210. Real property, £2,762. Pop., 249. Houses, 58. The property is all in one estate. Many barrows and Druidical stones are on the downs.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £634. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1857.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Winterbourne-Bassett, 1841-1891
Church Records
Baptisms from parish records and bishop’s transcripts Author: Wiltshire Family History Society
Civil Registration
Taxation
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Marlborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Avebury
- Poor Law Union: Marlborough
- Hundred: Selkley
- Province: Canterbury