Stert
"STERT, a chapelry in the parish of Urchfont, hundred of Swanborough, county Wilts, 2 miles S.E. of Devizes, its post town. The village, which is wholly agricultural, is situated near the road from Salisbury to Devizes. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Urchfont, in the diocese of Sarum. The church, dedicated to St. James, was erected in 1846. There is a National school."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Stert is 2 miles SE of Devizes. Grid Ref SU029594. Postcode SN10 3JE. Population 185 in 1831, 121 in 1951.
Cemeteries
- St James, Church of England
Church Records
- St James, 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 Stert, St James:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1579-1986, Mar 1579-1984, Bur 1580-1986
- BTs with gaps from 1580
- VRI Chr 1579-1812, Mar 1579-1838
- WFHS transcript Chr and Bur 1579-1837
- White Horse Baptisms 1579-1837
- The Ring Marriages 1579-1837
- Phillimore Marriages 1579-1812 (vol 4)
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1580-1837
- National Burial Index 1581-1837
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Stert from the National Gazetteer (1868).