Berwick St John genealogy heraldry and family history resources

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Description

Berwick-St-John, a parish in Wilts, at the source of the Ebell river, under White Sheet Hills, near Cranborne Chase, 6 miles S of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 1/2 E by S of Shaftesbury. Acreage, 4569; population of civil parish, 428; of ecclesiastical, 387. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order and telegraph office, Donhead St Andrew. Wilklebury Camp, or Vespasian's Camp, on a lofty ridge in the SW, is an entrenchment of 12 1/2 acres, engirt by a single ditch and by a rampart 39 feet high, and commands a very extensive view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £384 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford, The church is a cruciform structure of the time of Henry VII., has a low, square, central, ornamented tower; was restored in 1861-62, and contains two ancient effigies of crusaders, and monuments of the Grove family and others. There are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5


Census

Below are links to all of the Berwick St John census returns available online, with the dates the census' were taken
6th June 1841
30th March 1851
7th April 1861
2nd April 1871
3rd April 1881
5th April 1891
31st March 1901