Status: Ancient Parish
Alternative names: St Martin Barford
Parish church: St. Martin
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1623
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Barford St Martin
- Baverstock
- Groveley Wood
- Compton Chamberlayne
- Burcombe
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BARFORD (St Martin), a parish in Wilton district, Wilts; on a tributary of the river Avon, 3 miles W of Wilton r. station, and 5½ W by N of Salisbury. It has a post office under Salisbury. Acres, inclusive of the extra-parochial tract of Grovely Wood, 2,236. Real property, together with Baverstock, £5,984. Pop., 519. Houses, 116. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £577. Patron, All Souls’ College, Oxford. The church is good; and there is an Independent chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch Historical Records
Directories
Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight 1889
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
County: Wiltshire
Civil Registration District: Wilton
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
Diocese: Salisbury
Rural Deanery: Chalke
Poor Law Union: Wilton
Hundred: Cawden and Cadworth
Province: Canterbury