Place:Garsdon, Wiltshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"GARSDON, a parish in Malmsbury [registration] district, Wilts; 2 miles ENE of Malmsbury, and 5½ WSW of Minety [railway] station. Post town: Malmsbury, under Chippenham. Acres: 1, 136. Real property, with Lea: £4,815. Rated property of [Garsdon] alone: £1,486. Population: 206. Houses: 39. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Lea, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £441. Patron: F. Gale, Esq. The church is modern."

Garsdon was a separate parish in the Malmesbury Hundred and the Malmesbury Rural District until 1934 when it was merged with other local villages into a new parish named Lea and Cleverton (where a Wikipedia search is redirected).

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire vol 14, pp89-95: Garsdon. British History Online. University of London.
• 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.