Salisbury
"SALISBURY, (or New Sarum) comprising the parishes of St. Martin, St. Thomas, and St. Edmund, it is a city, market town, municipal and parliamentary borough, having separate civil jurisdiction, but locally in the hundred of Underditch, county Wilts, 82 miles S.W. of London, and 28½ from Winchester. It has stations on the Basingstoke section of the London and South-Western and Salisbury and Warminster branch of the Great Western railways, communicating directly with the metropolis, and another an the Bishopstoke branch of the South-Western, connecting it with the port of Southampton.This city owes its origin to the decline of Old Sarum, which is believed to have been a seat of the Belgæ prior to the Roman invasion of Britain, and was selected by the latter people as a station on the highway to the W., the three roads to Winchester, Silchester, and Dorchester branching off at this point, and probably three others to Bath, Ilchester, and a station on the Kennet; but these last are only traceable in certain localities: numerous coins of the several Roman emperors have also been found within its area. Under the West Saxons it first became the seat of a bishopric, founded by Ina in 704, but for a time resident at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, whence the see was removed in 905 to Wilton, in Wilts, and afterwards to Old Sarum, or the ancient Salisbury, which William of Malmesbury describes as more properly a castle than a city, being situated on a barren hill, and encompassed with a high wall."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Bibliography
Chandler, John - "Endless Street" A History of Salisbury and its People, first published in 1983, reprinted with corrections in 1987, new edition Sept 2001, 400 pages including 48 pages of illustrations with six chapters covering Nativity, Maturity, Working, Travelling, Governing & Living, the cover is a vast canvas of life in Salisbury and Old Sarum over the past millennium. Published by Hobnob Press, PO Box 1838, East Knoyle, Salisbury SP3 6FA. Available by credit card from Devizes Books, Handel House, Sidmouth St, Devizes, Wilts, SN10 1LD, and from Wiltshire FHS.
Cemeteries
- St Edmund, Bedwin Street, Church of England
- St Martin, Church Street, Church of England
- St Mary (Cathedral), Bishops Walk / Choristers Square, Church of England
- St Thomas a Becket, St Thomas Square, Church of England
Church Records
- Bishopsdown Baptist Church, Bishopsdown Road, Baptist
- Salisbury Baptist Church, Brown Street, Baptist
- St Edmund, Bedwin Street, Church of England
- St Francis, Beatrice Road, Church of England
- St Martin, Church Street, Church of England
- St Mary (Cathedral), Bishops Walk / Choristers Square, Church of England
- St Thomas a Becket, St Thomas Square, Church of England
- Emmanuel Church, Wilton Road, Evangelical & Reformed
- Salisbury Methodist Church, St. Edmund's Church Street, Methodist
- Harcourt Bridge Road Baptist Chapel, Other, Fisherton
- New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian Church, Other, Fisherton
- Assemblies of God Church, St Osmund's School, Carmelite Way, Other
- Barnard Street Church, Other
- Barnard's Cross Mission Hall, Other
- Brown Street Particular Baptist Church, Other
- Catholic Apostolic Church, Other
- Christadelphians, Other
- Christian Brethren, Other
- Christian Scientists, Other
- Citygate, Impact Centre, Sussex House, Newton Road, Other
- Congregational Church, Endless Street, Other
- Congregational Church, Fisherton Street, Other
- Congregational Church, Scots Lane, Other
- Elim Christian Centre, Dews Road, Other
- Elim Four Square Gospel Alliance, Other
- Harnham Free Church, Other
- Jehovah Witnesses, Other
- Methodist Chapel, Dews Road, Other
- Methodist Church, St. Edmund's Church Street, Other
- Methodist Reform Church, Milford Street, Other
- New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian Church, Other
- Open Christian Brethren, Other
- Primitive Methodist Chapel, Fisherton Street, Other
- Primitive Methodist Chapel, St Marks Road, Other
- Quakers, Other
- Railway Mission, Other
- Salisbury City Church, South Wilts Grammar School, Stratford Road, Other
- Salisbury Vineyard, Salisbury High School, Other
- Salt Lane Presbyterian Chapel, Other
- Salvation Army, Other
- St Mark, Other
- St Martin, Other
- St. Edmund's Mission Hall, Other
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fisherton Street, Other
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Mill Road, Other
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Wilton Road, Other
- Most Holy Redeemer, Fotherby Crescent, Roman Catholic
- St Gregory & the English Martyrs, St Gregory's Avenue, Roman Catholic
- St Osmund, Exeter Street, Roman Catholic
- Salisbury URC, Fisherton Street, United Reformed Church
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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 Salisbury, Particular Baptist church at Brown Street:
Indexes and registers of Salisbury, Independent church at Endless Street:
(founded 1806, re-united with Scot's Lane Independent 1860)Indexes and registers of Salisbury, Independent church at Scot's Lane:
(rebuilt in Fisherton St, 1879)- Registers at PRO, piece RG4 1432, 2014
- IGI Chr 1757-1837 Batch C077951
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1786-1803
Indexes and registers of Salisbury, Presbyterian church at Salt Lane:
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Salisbury from the National Gazetteer (1868).
Population
Population 9,876 in 1831, 32,911 in 1951.