Berwick St Leonard genealogy heraldry and family history resources

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Description

Berwick-St-Leonard, a parish in Wilts, 1 mile E of Hindon, and 3 miles NNW of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Hindon, under Salisbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1144; population of the civil parish, 61; of the ecclesiastical, with Sedghill, 237. Remains of the old manor-house, the seat of the Howes from 1629 to 1735, where the Prince of Orange slept in 1668 on his way to London, are now part of a suite of farm buildings. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Sedghill, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £210. Both churches have been restored.

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


Census

Below are links to all of the Berwick St Leonard 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