Berwick St Leonard, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Status: Ancient Parish

Alternative names: St Leonard Berwick

Parish church: St Leonard

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1723
• Bishop's Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include:

Parishes adjacent to Berwick St Leonard

• Fonthill Gifford
• Sherrington
• Boyton
• Fonthill Bishop
• Chicklade

Historical Descriptions

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Berwick, St. Leonard, a parish in the division of Hindon, hund. of Dunworth, union of Tisbury, county of Wilts; 1 mile east of Hindon. Living, a rectory, to which is annexed the chapelry of Sedghill, in the archd. and dio. of Salisbury; valued at £8 6s. 8d.; gross income £389. Patronage in dispute. The great and small tithes, the property of the clerical rector, were commuted in 1818. Pop., in 1801, 36; in 1831, 51. Houses 8. Acres 970. A.P. £1,025. Poor rates, in 1837, £19.

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: Dunworth
• Province: Canterbury