Tilshead

"TILSHEAD, a parish in the hundred of Branch and Dole, county Wilts, 10 miles S.E. of Amesbury, and 4 from South Lavington. Devizes is its post town. The village is on the road from Devizes to Salisbury, adjoining Salisbury Plain. There are several barrows in the Down", which were once celebrated for great numbers of bustards; also an embankment designated Old Ditch. The soil is light and chalky. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Sarum, value £200. The church, dedicated to St. Thomas-a-Becket, has recently been restored and enlarged. There is a National School. Fossil sponge is found, and madrepores abound in the flint stones."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Tilshead is 4 miles SE of East Lavington. Grid Ref SU035480. Postcode SP3 4SJ. Population 465 in 1831, 989 in 1951.

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Gazetteers

Church Records

St Thomas a Becket, Church of England
Baptist Chapel, Other

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Indexes and registers of the parish church of Tilshead, St James:
(dedication changed in 1846 to St Thomas à Becket):
- WSRO registers: Chr 1664-1870, Mar 1664-1837, Bur 1664-1927
- BTs before surviving registers for 1603, 1622-38
- IGI Chr 1603-1870 Batch C054801, Mar 1603 and 1622-1837 Batch M054801
- WFHS transcript Chr and Bur 1603-1837
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1603-1837

Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for Tilshead from the National Gazetteer (1868).