Wiltshire

England's prettiest village - Castle Combe submitted by Macbev

Wiltshire

County Town: Trowbridge

Major towns: Devizes, Salisbury, Swindon, Warminster

Known as the Gateway to the West Country situated in the South West of the country. Home of ancient mystical sites, such as Stonehenge, Silbury Hill and Avebury. Famed for its beautiful countryside, Castle Combe – voted prettiest Village in England and with white horses carved into the hills.

Sir John Betjeman went to school at Marlborough College

Local Register Office Contact Details

Chippenham

The Register Office
4 Timber Street Chippenham
SN15 3BZ
Tel 01249 654361

Devizes and Marlborough

The Register Office
The Beeches
Bath Road
Devizes
SN10 2AL
Tel 01380 722162

Salisbury

The Register Office
The Laburnums
50 Bedwin Street
Salisbury
SP1 3UW
Tel 01722 335340

Trowbridge

The Register Office
The Chestnuts
Bythesea Road
Trowbridge
BA14 8EZ
Tel 01225 713097

Warminster

The Register Office
3 The Avenue
Warminster
BA12 9AB
Tel 01985 213435

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Wiltshire & Swindon R/O Occasionally Nana Anna

Records Office Address

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office

Libraries and Heritage Headquarters

Bythesea Road

Trowbridge

Wiltshire

BA14 8BS

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Links

• Wiltshire Births Marriages & Deaths UKBMD project

• County Record Office Note:Currently closed due to re-location

• Wiltshire BMD

• Genuki: Wiltshire

• Wiltshire Genweb project

Local History Society

• Wiltshire Family History Society

OPC

• Online Parish Clerks

Archives

• IGI Wiltshire

• Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Catalogue - Wills Search

• 1851 Census

• North Wiltshire Musters 1539 Over 2,800 names

• Index of the Poll of Wiltshire Freeholders 1772

• Transcribed BMD's and other documents (Clives Home Pages)

• Wiltshire Wills Project

Keep checking the above site for progress on the Wiltshire Wills project. It is anticipated that the catalogue will be online by the end of 2006. Although the site no longer provides full details of the number of courts covered, I think I read that there were 27 different courts to be searched for a will. Certainly the searchroom had innumerable maroon volumes you had to wade through. This project has been going for several years now and plans ultimately to make digital copies available online, like TNA does for PCC wills, which will be brilliant!

Family and social history

• Wiltshire Workhouses

Maps & Photographs

• A fantastic site for finding photos of memorial inscriptions and churches

Countywide interest

• Local History Directory

• Moonrakers Wiltshire Genealogy and History

• Wiltshire Community History Introduction

• A Miscellany of Information and Links for Wiltshire

Specific Town Village interest

• Bradford on Avon - some Parish Records

• Burbage Family History and Genealogy

• North Wiltshire Musters Name Index to North Wiltshire Musters 1834

• History of the Woollen Cloth Industry in Trowbridge - includes a glossary of old occupations in the industry

• West Harnham Genealogy

• Wylye Valley Genealogy Pages

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