Place:Stockton, Wiltshire, England

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Stockton is a small village and civil parish in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Warminster. The parish includes the hamlet of Bapton.

The village is close to Codford, south of the A36 road, between the town of Warminster and the city of Salisbury.

When the civil parish of Fisherton Delamere was extinguished in 1934, the portion (about half) of the parish south of the River Wylye (1,174 acres) was transferred to Stockton. This transfer included the hamlets of Bapton and Fisherton Mill, formerly within Fisherton Delamere. Stockton also has a settlement of two cottages some three miles from the main village street at a remote spot called Great Bottom.

The number of residents dwindled from 307 at the census of 1841 to 187 in the year 2001, then increased to 204 in the 2011 census.

Research Tips

• Victoria County History - Wiltshire - Vol 11, pp212-223 - Parish: Stockton. 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.