Keevil
"KEEVIL, a parish in the hundred of Whorwelsdown and Melksham, county Wilts, 4 miles E. of Trowbridge, its post town, 4 S. of Melksham, and 5 N.E. of Westbury. The parish is wholly agricultural, and contains the tything of Bulkindon. It is watered by a copious brook, which flows into the river Avon near Leamington. The tithes were commuted for corn-rents under an Enclosure Act in 1794. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Sarum, value £250, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church, dedicated to St. Leonard, has a square embattled tower. There is a chapel for the Wesleyans, also a school with a small endowment. William W. B. Beach, Esq., is lord of the manor."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Keevil is 4 miles East of Trowbridge. Grid Ref ST917580. Postcode BA14 6SB. Population 692 in 1831, 301 in 1951.
Cemeteries
- St Leonard, Church of England
Church Records
- St Leonard, Church of England
- Coople Church, Other
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Other
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Indexes and registers of the church of Keevil, St Leonard:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1559-1954, Mar 1559-1990, Bur 1562-1865
- BTs with gaps from 1596
- IGI Mar 1754-1837 Batch M153241
- VRI Mar 1754-1837
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Keevil from the National Gazetteer (1868).