Clyffe Pypard
"CLIFFE PYPARD, a parish in the hundred of Kingsbridge, in the county of Wilts, 3 miles S. of Wootton Bassett, its post town and railway station. It passed to the Goddard family from Roger de Cobham, to whom it was granted in 1305 by Edward I. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, value £450, in the patronage of H. M. Goddard, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient structure with tower. It contains tombs of the Goddard family, and a monument to Thomas Spackman. The register commences in 1668. There are National schools. The manors of Thornhill and Broadtown were bequeathed by Sarah Duchess Dowager of Somerset, in 1686, for the education and apprenticing of boys, and a school for boys was endowed by Thomas Spackman. H. N. Goddard, M.A., is lord of the manor, and resides at the manor-house, an Elizabethan edifice."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Note:
Clyffe Pypard or Cliffe Pypard was once known locally as White Cleeve.
Cemeteries
- St Peter, Church of England
Church Records
- St Peter, Church of England
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Indexes and registers of the parish church of Clyffe Pypard, St Peter:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1597-1985, Mar 1576-1999, Bur 1576-1992
- IGI Mar 1576-1840 Batch M153251
- VRI Chr 1597-1874, Mar 1576-1840
- WFHS transcript Chr & Bur 1597-1837
- White Horse Baptisms 1576-1840
- Phillimore Marriages 1576-1837 (vol 10)
- National Burial Index 1576-1837
Gazetteers
- A transcription of the section for Clyffe Pypard from
the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for Clyffe Pypard from
A Vision of Britain through time.
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History
- The entry for Clyffe Pypard from British History Online.
Maps
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Population
Population was 885 in 1831, 519 in 1951.