Heritage Lottery Fund Estates Records Project
The King's College estates records for Wiltshire refer to College lands in the following manors:
Ablington, Brixton Deverill, Chalk, Chisenbury, Corsham, Homington, Ogbourne, Stratton St. Margaret, Tilshead and Uphaven
From this page you can view images of selected documents from the Wiltshire records, visit the online catalogue for each estate, provided through Janus, or download a copy of the county catalogue in Microsoft Word format.
- Image Gallery
- Links to the online catalogue by estate
- Complete county catalogue in Word format
- Related links
Image Gallery
Here are some examples of documents taken from the Wiltshire records.
Click on the thumbnail images to view a larger version.
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Receipt for Brixton Deverill manor, 1546 Ref: KCAR/6/2/22/4 BRD/46 |
| Chalk prebend sale, 1448 Ref: KCAR/6/2/31/7 CHA/12 |
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Rent roll for Ogbourne St George, 1722 Ref: KCAR/6/2/115/3 OGB/54 |
| Chalk valuation, 1813 Ref: KCAR/6/2/31/11 CHA/93 |
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Will of Robert Shaa, 1657 Ref: KCAR/6/2/161/1 UPA/14 |
| Bond, 1663 Ref: KCAR/6/2/161/1 UPA/28 |
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Links to the JANUS online catalogue
Click here to visit the online catalogue pages for the estates in Wiltshire:
- Ablington
- Brixton Deverill
- Chalk
- Chisenbury
- Corsham
- Homington
- Ogbourne
- Stratton St Margaret
- Tilshead
- Upavon
Complete catalogue for Wiltshire
Click on the link below to view the catalogue for the Wiltshire records. Please note the Microsoft Word version of the catalogue is not kept as up-to-date as the online version, available through Janus. You are advised to look at the online version if possible.
[Please note you will need Microsoft Word '97 or later in order to view the document correctly, and it may take some time to download.]
The county catalogue has been arranged alphabetically by estate, but if you are interested in a particular town or village within Wiltshire, you can also download Word catalogues for each estate separately. See the full list of estates here.
Related documents can also be found in the College's Abbey of Bec records. The catalogue for these can be viewed online or downloaded in MS Word format.
If you are interested in viewing any of the documents from the Wiltshire estate records, please Contact the Archive Centre
to arrange an appointment.
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Related links
[Links will open in a new window]- Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office
- Wiltshire Family History Society
- GENUKI UK and Ireland Genealogy: Wiltshire Listing
All links were current as of April 2007.
