Ebbesbourne Wake Wiltshire Family History Guide

Ebbesbourne Wake is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire

Alternative names: Ebbesborne Wake

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1653
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

• Swallowcliffe
• Sutton Mandeville
• Bower Chalke
• Alvediston
• Berwick St John
• Fovant
• Fifield Bavant
• Handley

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EBBESBORNE-WAKE, a parish in Wilton district, Wilts; on the Downs, 4¾ miles SE by S of Tisbury r. station, and 8 SW of Wilton. Post town, Broad-Chalk, under Salisbury. Acres, 2,762. Real property, with Fifield-Bavant, £3,129. Pop., 326. Houses, 72. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £130. Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is Norman, in tolerable condition; and there is an Independent chapel.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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: Chalk
Province: Canterbury