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Fugglestone St Peter  Wiltshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fugglestone St Peter like this:

FUGGLESTONE-ST. PETER-popularly Foylstone -a parish in Wilton district, Wilts; on the river Wiley, and on the Salisbury and Exeter railway, in the eastern vicinity of Wilton. It includes Bemerton chapelry and Quidhampton tything; and its post town is Wilton, under Salisbury. Acres, 1, 684. Rated property, £2, 614. ...


Pop., 609. Houses, 136. The property is divided among a few. Some early monastery or monastic hospital is thought to have existed here, and to have been the burial-place of King Ethelred in 827; and a lepers' hospital, perhaps on the site of the previous edifice, was founded by Adelicia the queen of Henry I.; and the chapel of this still stands, and has been converted into dwellings for the poor. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bemerton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £482.* Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The church is good. Two hospitals, called St. Giles and St. Mary Magdalene's, for maintaining poor old persons, have £210 a year.

Fugglestone St Peter through time

Fugglestone St Peter is now part of Salisbury district. Click here for graphs and data of how Salisbury has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fugglestone St Peter itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fugglestone St Peter, in Salisbury and Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20924

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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