Fisherton Delamere
"FISHERTON-DE-LA-MERE, a parish in the hundred of Warminster, county Wilts, 4 miles E. of Heytesbury, its post town, and 8 N.W. of Wilton. It is situated on the river Wiley, and is intersected by the road from Salisbury to Bath. The Wiley station on the Salisbury line of the Great Western railway is about a mile from the village. The surface is undulating, and the soil chalky. The hamlet of Bapton is included in the parish The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, value £135. The church is a small neat edifice, with tower, rebuilt, with the exception of the chancel, at the expense of the late Mr. Davis in 1833. John Davis, Esq., is lord of the manor. This is a meet for the South Wilts hounds."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Fisherton Delamere or Fisherton de la Mere is 10 miles SW of Amesbury, half way between Salisbury and Warminster. Grid Ref SU001385. Postcode BA12 0PZ. Population 309 in 1831.
Cemeteries
- St Nicholas, -, Church of England
Church Records
- St Nicholas, -, Church of England
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Indexes and registers of the parish church of Fisherton Delamere, St Nicholas:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1561-1895, Mar 1566-1992, Bur 1569-1992
- WFHS transcript Chr & Bur to 1837
- National Burial Index 1569-1837
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Fisherton de la Mere from the National Gazetteer (1868).