Downton, Wiltshire
Location
The village of Downton is approximately 6 miles south of Salisbury. It straddles the River Avon just outside the New Forest National Park. For additional information please see A History of the
County of Wiltshire: Volume 11 at British History Online. The ancient parish extends to include both Redlynch, which became a parish in its own right in 1838 and Charlton in 1851 as well as a number of smaller settlements.
Parish Church
The Parish (CofE) Church is St. Laurence, Downton, which can be found here on
Google Street View. The church has its own website at
http://www.stlaurencedownton.co.uk.
Parish Registers
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Adjacent (pre 1832) Parishes
To the east the ancient parish of Downton was bounded by
Whiteparish and the extra-parochial area of Langley Wood and
Landford, to the south east by the extra-parochial area of No Man's Land and
Bramshaw, HAM, to the south by the extra-parochial area of the New Forest, to the south west by
Breamore, HAM and
Whitsbury, to the north west by
Odstock and to the north by
Britford and
Alderbury
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