Westport St Mary
"WESTPORT, a parish in the hundred of Malmesbury, county Wilts, half-a-mile N.W. of Malmesbury, of which it may be considered a suburb. The population in 1861 was 1,615. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value with Brockenborough and Charlton annexed, £320, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was enlarged in 1841."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Westport St Mary or Westport is NW of Malmesbury and adjacent to it. It included Brokenborough up to 1879. Grid Ref ST925875. Postcode SN16 0DF. Population 1,286 in 1831.
Cemeteries
- St Mary, Gloucester Road, Church of England
Church Records
- St Mary, Gloucester Road, Church of England
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Indexes and registers of the parish church of Westport, St Mary:
(in WSRO lists under Malmesbury)- WSRO registers: Chr 1678-1944, Mar 1685-1891, Bur 1678-1885
- BTs before surviving registers for 1605-09, 1619-24, 1632, 1667-79
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1800-1837
Gazetteers
The transcription of the section for Westport from the National Gazetteer (1868).