Lydiard Millicent
"LIDDIARD MILLICENT, (or Lydiard), a parish in the hundred of Highworth, county Wilts, 2 miles S. of Purton, its railway station and post town, and 3 N.E. of Wooton-Bassett. The village, which is small, is situated near the Great Western and Cheltenham railways, and the road from Cricklade to Wootton-Bassett passes through the parish. The surface is flat and the land generally in rich pasture. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £495, in the patronage of Pembroke College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a tower containing five bells. It has recently undergone thorough repair. The parochial charities produce about £6 per annum."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Lydiard Millicent or Liddiard Millicent is 4 miles West of the centre of Swindon. Grid Ref SU093860. Postcode SN5 3LS. Population 821 in 1951.
Cemeteries
- All Saints, -, Church of England
Church Records
- All Saints, -, Church of England
- Primitive Methodist Chapel, Other
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Indexes and registers of the parish church of Lydiard Millicent, All Saints:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1579-1968, Mar 1580-1992, Bur 1580-1988
- BTs from 1607 with gaps
- VRIMar 1580-1837
- Phillimore Marriages 1580-1837 (vol 8)
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1800-1837
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Liddiard Millicent from the National Gazetteer (1868).