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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Semley like this:
SEMLEY, a parish, with a village, in Tisbury district, Wilts; on the Salisbury and Yeovil railway, 3 miles N E of Shaftesbury. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Salisbury. Acres, 2, 945. Rated property, £3, 812. Pop., 699. The manor belongs to Lord Arundel. Building-stone is quarried. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £600.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church was all early English; but the chancel was rebuilt, in the decoratedstyle, in 1866. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £4.
Semley is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Semley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Semley in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12091
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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