Hilmarton
"HILLMARTON, a parish in the hundred of Kingsbridge and Selkley, county Wilts, 3 miles N.E. of Calne, its post town, and 7 S.W. of Wootton-Bassett. It contains the hamlets of Catcomb, Beversbrook, Corton, Whitcomb, and Cleaveancy. The surface is level, and the land chiefly pasture. There are several quarries of good building stone and clay for making bricks. The village, which is small, is situated on the Oxford road. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Sarum, value £399, in the patronage of the crown. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is a noble edifice with a square embattled tower, which was partly rebuilt at the expense of the late Thomas Poynder, Esq., who also thoroughly restored the church, at a great expense, in 1851. The charities produce about £14 per annum, £4 of which goes to a school. The Independents have a place of worship at Goatacre in this parish. Thomas Henry Allen Poynder, Esq., is lord of the manor."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Hilmarton or Hillmarton is 3 miles NE of Calne. Grid Ref SU020754. Postcode SN11 8SD. Population 791 in 1831.
Cemeteries
- St Lawrence, Church Road, Church of England
Census
Hilmarton Census Transcripts provided by Jeff Settle:
Church Records
- St Lawrence, Church Road, Church of England
- Free Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, Other, Corton
- Congregational Chapel, Other, Goatacre
- Primitive Methodist Chapel, Other, Goatacre
- Church of St. Peter, Other, Highway
- Baptist Chapel, Other
- Chapel at Beversbrook, Other
- Chapel at Witcomb, Other
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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 Hilmarton, St Lawrence:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1645-1878, Mar 1645-1980, Bur 1645-1928
- BTs before surviving registers for 1605-9, 1619-23, 1632-35
- IGI Chr 1645-1878 Batch C152961
- VRI Chr 1645-1878
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1800-1837
The Baptisms 1813-1842 have been transcribed by Jeff Settle.
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Hillmarton from the National Gazetteer (1868).
Probate
Prior to 1858 Hilmarton fell under the jurisdiction of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire for probate purposes. The records are held at the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.
Adrian Parry has kindly provided a transcripts of the will of John White (1737) from Hilmarton.