Highway
"HIGHWAY, a parish in the hundred of Potterne, county Wilts, 4½ miles N.E. of Calne, its post town, and 5 S. of Wootton Basset. The village consists of a few farmhouses. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £165. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Bremhill, in the diocese of Sarum. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Augustus Henry Tongs, Esq., is lord of the manor."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Highway is 4 miles NE of Calne. Grid Ref SU042745. Postcode SN11 8SR. Population 148 in 1831.
Cemeteries
- St Peter, Highway Common, Church of England
Church Records
- St Peter, Highway Common, Church of England
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Common to all parishes is a Key to Abbreviations and a description of Church Records and Indexes for Wiltshire, including a complete Marriage Index for the county.
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Highway, St Peter:
(a chapelry of Bremhill until 1952)- WSRO registers: Chr 1742-1950, Mar 1753-1948, Bur 1745-1941
- BTs before surviving registers for 1606-9, 1619-23, 1632, 1635, 1665-1668, 1673-1679, 1702, 1707-10, 1716-31, 1736-47
- IGI Chr 1742-1885 Batch C152971
- VRI Chr 1606-1906, Mar 1606-1904
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Highway from the National Gazetteer (1868).