In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bishops Cannings like this:
BISHOPS-CANNINGS, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Devizes, Wilts. The village stands on the Kent and Avon canal, 1½ mile S of Wans Dyke, and 3 NE of Devizes r. station, and has a post office under Devizes.—The parish includes the tythings of Bourton, Easton, Chittoe, Coate, and Horton, and the chapelry of St. ...
James or Southbroom. Acres, 12,641. Real property, £11,114. Pop., 4,062. Houses, 750. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged, till the time of Henry VII., to the ancient family of Canynge. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £395.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church is early English, with Anglo-Norman interior; is supposed to have been built about the same time as Salisbury cathedral; was interiorly renovated in 1829; and contains an organ which cost £440, the gift of William Baley, a native, who went round the world with Captain Cook. The chapelries of Chittoe and Southbroom are separate charges.-The subdistrict contains seven parishes and parts of two others. Acres, 22,892. Pop., 3,812. Houses, 854.
Bishops Cannings through time
Bishops Cannings is now part of Kennet district. Click here for graphs and data of how Kennet has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bishops Cannings itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bishops Cannings, in Kennet and Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11651
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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