A History of Wiltshire, Volume I Part 2

Volume I(2) contains a series of chapters originally planned to accompany within a single volume a comprehensive gazetteer of Wiltshire's prehistoric remains. In the event the gazetteer was published as Volume I(1) in 1957 and thechapters are now appearing after a considerable lapse of time. Although the chapters are based largely upon the evidence contained in the gazetteer, the authors have taken account of relevant excavations and research undertaken since 1957.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22735-0

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume II

Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire, Anglo-Saxon Art, Domesday. Indexed.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-91047-7

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume III

Ecclesiastical History, Industries, Roads, Canals, Railways, Population Table, Sport, Spas and Mineral Springs, Freemasonry, Forests. Indexed.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-91048-4

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume IX

Volume IX contains histories of Swindon, Wootton Bassett, and nine rural parishes. Special attention has been given to the development of New Swindon after the coming of the G.W.R. works in 1845, and to the effects of that development upon the small and ancient market town of Old Swindon.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22736-7

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume VI

Wilton borough, Old Salisbury borough, New Salisbury city, Underditch hundred. Indexed.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-91032-3

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume VII

Bradford, Melksham, and Potterne and Cannings hundreds (including Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, and Trowbridge). Indexed.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-91036-1

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume X

The volume relates the histories of the borough of Devizes and of the 22 parishes in Swanborough hundred. It covers an area in the centre of Wiltshire, including the western end of the Vale of Pewsey, and ascending the escarpmentof the Marl-borough Downs to the north and that of Salisbury Plain to the south. Eastwards Swanborough extends to the Cheverells and the heavy clay-lands of west Wiltshire.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22740-4

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XI: Downton Hundred, Elstub and Everleigh Hundred

Volume XI contains the histories of two scattered hundreds. The parishes of Downton hundred are ranged along the southern county boundary, and those of Elstub and Everleigh hundred are centred on Enford in the Avon valley but have outliers throughout Wiltshire. Downton hundred represents the Wiltshire lands of the see of Winchester, Elstub and Everleigh the estates administered by the cathedral priory of St. Swithun, Winchester.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22751-0

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XII: Ramsbury Hundred, Selkley Hundred, The Borough of Marlborough

This volume contains the histories of the hundreds of Ramsbury and Selkley and of the borough of Marlborough. The area is mostly on the Marlborough Downs in the north-east quarter of Wiltshire. The Kennet flows east through both hundreds and skirts the town of Marlborough to the south.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22759-6

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XIII: South-West Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth Hundreds

Chalke and Dunworth hundreds are in south-west Wiltshire on the Dorset border. The parishes of Chalke hundred were united by being part of Wilton abbey's estate before the Norman Conquest, but most of the hundred is homogeneous. Long and narrow parishes lie north and south across the river Ebble and are characterized by extensive chalk downs. Until farmsteads were built on the downs in the 19th century, nearly all settlement was in small riverside villages.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22769-5

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XiV: Malmesbury Hundred

This volume contains the history of the town of Malmesbury and twenty surrounding parishes forming Malrnesbury hundred. The town evolved in the Anglo-Saxon period round the early monastic foundation: the town's position on a promontory between the Tetbury and Sherston branches of the Bristol Avon and the abbey's surviving buildings remain the town's most noticeable features.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22779-4

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XV: Amesbury Hundred, Branch and Dole Hundred

This volume contains the history of 25 parishes in Amesbury hundred and Branch and Dole hundred. Apart from the small towns of Amesbury and Lud-gershall the site of a small royal castle in the Middle Ages and a parliamentary borough, the area was agricultural, with little woodland. The parishes lie on chalk downland, mostly on the south-east part of Salisbury Plain, bearing many marks of prehistoric activity.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22785-5

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XVI: Kinwardstone Hundred

This volume relates the history of the 15 parishes in Kinwardstone hundred in east Wiltshire. The hundred lay between two medieval royal forests, Savernake and Chute. It is generally fertile and was devoted to sheep-and-corn husbandry. Each of c. 45 villages and hamlets in it had its own set of open fields and its own common pasture, and there is evidence of colonization from some of the larger villages.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-197-22793-0

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A History of Wiltshire, Volume XVII: Calne

Calne, a small town in north Wiltshire, stood on a large royal estate, and the witan met there - St Dunstan survived the partial collapse of a building at one meeting. It sent members to parliament from the thirteenth century, andit became a pocket borough in the eighteenth.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-904-35601-1

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A Wiltshire Village

Wonderful descriptions of life and characters of villages in the South Marston area based on the observations and recollections of the author.    

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Bishops Cannings 1591-1812 Parish Registers

Published transcript of the baptism, marriage and burial registers for this Wiltshire parish.    

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Collections for a History of Seagry

A cameo of the village of Seagry, Wiltshire.    

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Dorset & Wiltshire 1865 Directory, Harrod & Co

An excellent county gazetteer and directory covering Dorset and Wiltshire    

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Dorset and Wiltshire 1849 Kelly's Directory

A superb bi-county directory which will be of enormous benefit to those struggling to find ancestors in the 1851 census.    

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Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 1822 Pigot's Directory

Two very rare directories on one CD Note that these directories include only the main towns and market towns, and not the villages in each county.    

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Highways & Byways in Wiltshire

A delightful guide to the county, with descriptions and history of each of the towns and villages, together with lots of illustrations. An ideal source of good background information for your family history.    

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Maps - Vol. 10 - Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire

An incredibly useful resource! Really high quality digitised maps that you can zoom in and in to see the finest detail.    

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North Wiltshire & District 1917 Directory

A comprehensive street directory of Swindon and directories of towns and villages for miles around, including Chippenham. See above for a special offer for this and three other directories.    

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North Wiltshire & District 1920 Directory

See above for a special offer for this and three other directories.    

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Pigot's 1831 Topography and Gazetteer of England

Superb and rare topography and gazetteer of; Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire.    

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Register of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury 1388-1395

The 235 folios of John Waltham's register contain letters, dispensations and letters dimissory, institutions; parochial visitations, and judicial acta. Five of the calendar's seven appendices supply additional related matter. As well as expediting routine business, the bishop is seen resolving, with royal support, a longstanding dispute with his chapter, resisting metropolitical visitation, using canon law to excuse his failure to levy papal taxes and statute law to safeguard patronage from papal provisions, and uncovering details about Lollard masses. It is of some interest that the clerks who preside over his courts differed markedly in their methods and sentencing policy. The medieval diocese of Salisbury covered the old counties of Berkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire, and the register will be of considerable interest to local historians as well as to medievalists.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23949-9

Price:  £25.00

Register of Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury, 1407-1417

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23934-5

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Register of Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury, 1407-1417

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23933-8

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Registers of Roger Martival, Archbishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, IIi

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23941-3

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Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, I

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23925-3

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Stourton Parish Registers 1570-1800

Transcripts of the original registers. Baptisms 1572-1800, marriages 1578-1800 and burials 1570-1800. Complete with a full index of every name in the book. Kindly loaned to The Archive CD Books Project by The Harleian Society.    

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Swindon & District Directory & Year Book 1928

The same type of book as the one described below for 1939. See above for a special offer for this and three other directories.    

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Swindon & District Directory and Year Book 1939

A complete stret by street directory of Swindon and directories for villages in the district which show the names of residents and their occupations. These villages can often be upto ten miles from swindon so the area covered is quite large. See above for a special offer for this and three other directories.    

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Swindon Fifty Years Ago (More or less), Reminiscences, Notes and Relics of the Old Wiltshire Town

Historical details about people, places and lifestyles of those in Swindon before 1885. Include cloth workers, wool trade, workhouses, smuggling trade, Churches, Mills, Manors, Houses and popular amusements. Other sections cover Ghosts and the town's "characters". An amusing book that will tell you everything you need to know about Swindon town in the 1800s.    

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The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868, Warwickshire, Westmoreland & Wiltshire

The original Gentleman's Magazine contained articles on a vast array of subjects, including lots of wonderful topographical pieces. In 1891 George Gomme republished all of these topograhical articles but edited and indexed them into county specific order. Each of Gomme's works contains between two and four separate counties. An absolute goldmine of information about the county, its people and its places.    

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The Register of Thomas Langton, Bishop of Salisbury, 1485-93

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23938-3

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The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, IIi

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23926-0

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The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, IV

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23932-1

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The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, IV

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23942-0

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The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330. III Royal writs

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23931-4

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The Visitation of Wiltshire 1623

Pedigrees of Wiltshire families in 1623.    

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Thirteenth-Century Wall Painting of Salisbury Cathedral: Art, Liturgy, and Reform

Although Salisbury Cathedral is one of the most famous surviving buildings from medieval Europe, the monumental cycle of vault paintings which adorns the eastern arm has not received the attention it deserves. Here, for the firsttime, the wall-paintings are considered fully, and set properly within the architectural and liturgical contexts of the Cathedral church, which was designed as the flagship of thirteenth-century church reform.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83331-4

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Wiltshire 1830 Pigot's Directory

One of the earliest directories, this one covers the whole of the county, with descriptions of all of the towns and main villages, churches, schools, etc. and a listing of people with trades. Everything from doctors to candle makers, dress makers working from home to chimney sweeps, butchers, bakers and bricklayers, etc. A huge amount of early 19th century information of interest to historians and genealogists. This county directory was purchased from a book dealer as a loose collection of unbound pages with no cover. Originally it would have been part of a combined county volume, and therefore when Archive CD Books finally obtained all of the other parts of the book (over a period of time from many different book dealers) they decided to reinstate it as you see illustrated here. Beautifully rebound in half leather, with hand made marbled paper and real gold leaf lettering and lining on the spine.    

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Wiltshire 1839 Robson's Directory

Detailed directories of the major towns and villages with the names, address and occupations of their inhabitants. A fantastic resource, especially for those looking for leads in the 1841 census.    

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Wiltshire 1842-4 Pigot's Directory

Once a part of a much larger book. The Wiltshire section was purchased from a book dealer unbound, and Archive CD Books finally managed to piece together all of the county sections to have the book rebound. This CD contains the Wiltshire 1844 directory, and comes complete with a high quality zoomable map.    

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Wiltshire 1873 Return of Owners of Land

Lists every person in the county who owned 1 acre of land or more, with name, place, extent of land and its value.    

Price:  £8.94

Wiltshire 1895 Kelly's Directory

A comprehensive directory of the tradespeople of each place in the county along with wonderful descriptions of the local facilities such as churches, schools and hospitals. Also included is a county-wide court directory (private residents and their addresses) plus a classified trades directory    

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Wiltshire 1903 Kelly's Directory

Each town, village and hamlet in the county is described, with details of local history, facilities and institutions to help you understand the lives of your ancestors. Each place has its own lists of private residents and tradespeople. There are also separate county wide directories of private residents and classified trades. Kindly loaned to the Archive CD Books Project by the Family Record Centre (the PRO) in London.    

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Wiltshire 1920 Kelly's Directory

A comprehensive directory of the county. Each place has a description of its history, details of local institutions and directories of trades people and private residents.    

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Wiltshire 1927 Kelly's Directory

A typically comprehensive county directory. Wonderful descriptions of facilities and local history in every town village and hamlet. plus directories of private residents and tradespeople.    

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Wiltshire and Gloucestershire 1822 Pigot's Directory

Two very rare directories on one CD Note that these directories include only the main towns and market towns, and not the villages in each county. Wiltshire: Bradford, Calne, Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Salisbury, Trowbridge, Warminster, Westbury. Gloucestershire: Cheltenham, Cirencester, Dursley, Gloucester, Newent, Stroud Water, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Wotton-under-Edge.    

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Wiltshire Kelly's Directory 1939

Although a late directory, this one can be very useful to family historians tracing families in earlier times too. It is surprising how many families will have lived in the same houses for decades.
   

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Wiltshire Parish Registers - Marriages - Complete Set

All 14 volumes of the Phillimore's marriages transcripts, making up the county set.    

Price:  £15.00