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