Place:Codford St. Mary, Wiltshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"CODFORD-ST. MARY, a parish in Warminster [registration] district, Wilts; on the river Wiley, near Codford [railway] station, 4 miles SE of Heytesbury. It has a post office under Bath. Acres: 2,123. Real property, with Codford-St. Peter: £4,086. Population: 404. Houses: 92. The property is divided among a few. Codford-Hill is crowned by a curious earthwork, called Ogbury or Codford Circle, supposed to have been formed by Druids for religious rites; and commands a most interesting view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: £306. Patron: St. John's College, Oxford. The church is later English, in good condition; and there is an Independent chapel."

In 1934, Codford St. Peter and Codford St. Mary were merged into the new civil parish of Codford.

Research Tips

• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.