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North Wraxall
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"NORTH WRAXALL, a parish in the hundred of Chippenham, county Wilts, 7 miles N.W. of Chippenham, and 9 N.E. of Bath. It is situated on the line of the ancient Akeman Street, now the high road to Chippenham, and includes the hamlets of Upper Wraxall and Ford, at which latter place is a water-mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £485. The church, dedicated to St. James, contains tombs of the Yonges and Methuens. There is a National school. Lord Methuen is lord of the manor."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
North Wraxall is 7 miles W of Chippenham. Grid Ref ST818750. Population 415 in 1831, 311 in 1951.
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| St James, North Wraxall |
- Photos of the Church of North Wraxall and of the nearby church of Tormarton, Gloucestershire, are provided by Phil Draper on his Church Crawler web site. He has a set of photographs of the exterior and interior, with an interesting commentary on the architecture, memorials, font, pulpit and reredos.
- Common to all parishes is a Church Records and Indexes for Wiltshire, including a complete Marriage Index for the county.
- Indexes and registers of the parish church of North Wraxall, St James:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1677-1992, Mar 1677-1992, Bur 1677-1992
- BTs before surviving registers for 1605, 1609, 1620-23, 1632-36, 1666-68, 1673-
- IGI Chr 1677-1885 Batch C152511
- VRI Chr 1677-1906, Mar 1677-1837
- A transcription of the section for North Wraxall from the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for North Wraxall from A Vision of Britain through time.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from North Wraxall to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST819752 (Lat/Lon: 51.47582, -2.261854), North Wraxall which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
You can also see Family History Societies covering the nearby area, plotted on a map. This facility is being developed, and is awaiting societies to enter information about the places they cover.