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Wilton Union Workhouse

Board day, every alternate Monday, at the Poor Law Institution, South Newton, at 2pm
Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Rev Canon F. W. MacDonald M.A. Rectory, Great Wishford, Salisbury.
Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee, George Munkhouse Wilson, The Square, Wilton, and Bridge Street, Salisbury.
Wilton Union comprises the following places:

  • Barford St Martin
  • Baverstock
  • Bemerton
  • Berwick St James
  • Bishopstone
  • Bower Chalke
  • Broad Chalke
  • Burcombe Without
  • Compton
  • Chamberlayne
  • Dinton
  • Ebbesborne Wake
  • Fisherton-de-la-Mere
  • Fovant
  • Groveley Wood
  • Langford (Little)
  • Netherhampton
  • South Newton Without
  • Stapleford
  • Steeple Langford
  • Wilton
  • Wishford (Great)
  • Wylye

The population of the Union in 1911 was 10,203, area 56,205 acres, rateable value in 1915 was £71,400.

The Poor Law Institution, South Newton, is a structure of brick, erected in 1836.
Rev. Alfred John Baker, Chaplain.
Charles Robert Stratton, Medical Officer.
Mrs Brown, Matron.

Source: Kelly's Directory 1915.



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