Search results
Until the 1790s, when it became an independent ecclesiastical parish, Baydon was a tithing and chapelry of Ramsbury parish within Ramsbury hundred. [2] [5] The M4 motorway which passes just north of the village was opened on 22 December 1971.
Jul 12, 2024 · The chapelry and tithing of Baydon was in Ramsbury parish. It relieved its own poor, apparently in the early 18th century, (fn. 1) and achieved full parish status in the 1790s when its church became independent of Ramsbury church.
Guide to Baydon, Wiltshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
The parish church of St Nicholas is an ancient edifice of stone, partly Norman, and consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the church was restored in 1857 and again in 1894, and affords 150 sittings.
- Baydon, Wiltshire
Bishopstone, where there was a church in the 12th century, was in the 13th century a distinct parish. Baydon became a poor-law parish but its church, standing in the early 12th century, remained dependent on Ramsbury church until the 1790s.
Baydon Parish Registers (1578-1837) The parish registers of Baydon provide details of births, marriages and deaths from 1578 to 1837. Parish registers can assist tracing a family as far back as 1578.
People also ask
Where is Baydon in England?
Is Baydon a Roman village?
Did Isaac Newton own Baydon house?
Does Baydon village stores have a post office?
Where did the agrarian economy evolve in Axford & Baydon?
What did Ramsbury parish look like?
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Baydon like this: BAYDON, a parish in the district of Hungerford and county of Wilts; on the verge of the county, 3½ miles WSW of Lambourne, and 7 SSE of Shrivenham r. station. It has a post office under Hungerford.
