Place:Orcheston St. Mary, Wiltshire, England

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NameOrcheston St. Mary
Alt namesOrcheston-St. Marysource: hypenated
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates51.207°N 1.917°W
Located inWiltshire, England     ( - 1934)
See alsoBranch and Dole Hundred, Wiltshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Amesbury Rural, Wiltshire, Englandrural district, 1894 - 1934
Orcheston, Wiltshire, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1934
Salisbury District, Wiltshire, Englanddistrict municipality 1974-2009
Wiltshire District, Wiltshire, Englandunitary authority since 2009
source: Family History Library Catalog
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Orcheston is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, lying on Salisbury Plain less than a mile northwest of neighbouring Shrewton. The present-day parish combines the two former parishes of Orcheston St. Mary and Orcheston St. George and includes the hamlet of Elston.

The two civil parishes of Orcheston, based on the two Church of England parish churches of St Mary and St George, were united into a single civil parish in 1934 and into a single ecclesiastical parish in 1971.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Orcheston St. Mary from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ORCHESTON-ST. MARY, a parish in Amesbury [registration] district, Wilts; on Salisbury plain, 8¾ miles N E of Wiley [Wylye] [railway] station, and 11¼ S S E of Devizes. Post-town: Orcheston, St. George, under Devizes. Acres: 1,737. Real property, with Orcheston, St. George: £3,480. Population: 177. Houses: 41. The property is divided between two. The manor belongs to Miss Mills. Orchestondown is in the northeast. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £380. Patron: Clare College, Cambridge. The church is partly ancient, and restored; and the chancel was recently rebuilt."

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