Keevil, Wiltshire Family History Guide

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Keevil is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Other places in the parish include: Bulkington.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1596

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Keevil

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KEEVIL, a parish in Westbury district, Wilts; on an affluent of the river Avon, and near the Kennet and Avon canal, 4½ miles E of Trowbridge r. station.

It includes the tything of Bulkington; and its post town is Steeple-Ashton, under Trowbridge. Acres, 2,883. Real property, £5,070. Pop., 669. Houses, 157. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to W. W. B. Beach, Esq.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £250. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is good, and has an embattled tower.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a slightly endowed school.

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

Bulkington

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Bulkington, co. Wilts.

P. T. Melksham (96) 15 m. SE. Pop. 306.

A tything in the parish of Keevil and hundred of Melksham.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Keevil

England, Wiltshire, Keevil – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Keevil, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Keevil – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Keevil, 1596-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Keevil (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Bulkington (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Keevil, 1559-1954
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Keevil (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, Keevil – History ( 2 )
A Book of Keevil
Author: Thomsett, Alan; Haynes, Robert; Marshman, Michael; Keevil Society (Wiltshire)

Villages of Wiltshire–Keevil
Author: Haynes, Robert

England, Wiltshire, Keevil – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in Keevil, Wiltshire 1773-1884
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Bulkington

England, Wiltshire, Bulkington – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Bulkington, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, Bulkington – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bulkington, 1860-1880
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Bulkington (Wiltshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Keevil, 1596-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Keevil (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Bulkington (Wiltshire)

Administration

  • County: Wiltshire
  • Civil Registration District: Westbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Potterne
  • Poor Law Union: Westbury and Whorwellsdown
  • Hundred: Melksham; Whorwellsdown
  • Province: Canterbury