Status: Ancient Parish
Alternative names: St John Berwick
Parish church: St John
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Berwick St John
- Ansty
- Alvediston
- Tollard Royal
- Ebbesbourne Wake
- Donhead St Andrew
- Donhead St Mary with Charlton
- Handley
Historical Descriptions
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Berwick, St. John, a parish in the division oi Hindon, hund. of Chalk, union of Tisbury, county of Wilts; 5½ miles east by south of Shaftesbury. Living, a rectory in the archd. and dio. of Salisbury; valued at £26 13s. 4d.; gross income £664; in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New college, Oxford. Here is a place of worship for Baptists; the church was formed in 1825. This parish possesses a daily school, containing 53 pupils, and two Sunday schools. Pop., in 1801, 357; in 1831, 425. Houses 90. Acres 4,230. A.P. £2,881. Poor rates, in 1837, £280.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Tisbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Chalke
- Poor Law Union: Tisbury
- Hundred: Chalk
- Province: Canterbury