Alton Priors, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Status: Chapelry (Overton, Wiltshire) succeeded by Alton Priors Ecclesiastical Parish
Boundary changes: Alton Priors Ecclesiastical Parish abolished to enlarge Alton Barnes Ecclesiastical Parish
Alternative names: Alton Priors with West Stowell, Alton Priors with Stowell
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1664; see also Overton
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1605
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Alton Priors
Historical Descriptions
Alton Priors
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ALTON-PRIORS, a chapelry in Overton parish, Wilts; on the Kennet and Avon canal, contiguous to Alton Barnes, 7 miles E of Devizes r. station. It includes the tything of Stowell; and its Post Town is Pewsey under Marlborough. Acres, 2,630. Real property, £2,038. Pop., 207. Houses, 46. The manor belonged anciently to Winchester monastery. The living is a curacy, an nexed to Overton vicarage, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church has a curious-brass of 1528.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Alton-Priors, a chapelry in the parish of Overton division of Everley and Pewsey, union of Pewsy, Wiltshire; 1 mile south of Alton-Barnes. Living, a curacy in the patronage of the vicar of Overton. Pop., in 1801, including the tything of Stowell, 178; in 1831, 923. Houses 40. Acres 2,630. A. P. £1,853. Poor rates, in 1837, £89.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Alton-Priors with Stowell, 4 m. S. by W. Overton. P.251
Source: Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Stowell
A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Stowell, co. Wilts.
P. T. Marlborough (74) 6 m. SW b S. Pop. with Alton Priors 166.
A tithing in the parish of Overton and hundred of Elstub and Everley.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. III; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.
Directories
Kelly's Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889
Residents 1855
Alton Priors
Tanner John esq Stowell house
TRADERS
Gale Maria Mrs shopkeeper
Giddings Charles farmer West Stowell
Simpkins James George farmer
Tasker Thomas grocer
Source: Post office [afterw.] Kelly's directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands) 1855
Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Pewsey
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Avebury
- Poor Law Union: Pewsey
- Hundred: Elstub and Everleigh
- Province: Canterbury