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Alton Priors is 7 miles North East of Devizes. Grid ref SU111623. Post code SN8 4JX.
Modern map of the area - link to Multimap
The 1841 census enumeration books for this and a number of neighbouring parishes are missing. See Missing 1841 enumeration books information from Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office website
Information and links for indexes including a complete marriage index for Wiltshire are in a page on church records and indexes .
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Alton Priors
There is a key to abbreviations and explanation of format of this list common to all parishes.
"ALTON-PRIORS, a chapelry in the parish of Overton, in the hundred of Elstub and Everley, in the county of Wilts, 7 miles to the E. of Devizes. It contains the tything of West Stowell, which was one of the possessions of the priory of Winchester. The living is a perpetual curacy united with the vicarage of Overton in the diocese of Salisbury. The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, contains a brass of the year 1528."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
