Salisbury Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU)

Created: 1836  

Statistics

Population

Population

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.
Industry

Industry

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.
Life & Death

Life & Death

Numbers of babies born. Deaths, especially infant deaths. Causes of death by age and gender.
Work & Poverty

Work & Poverty

Unemployment rates and poor relief. What proportions of men and of women did paid work?
Housing

Housing

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.
Birthplace & Religion

Birthplace & Religion

Numbers going to church, and the kinds of churches they went to. The different religions of modern Britain.
Place marker map of Great Britain and Ireland

The following alternate names exist for this unit:

Name Status Language Start End Authority
ALDERBURY Official English   28 May 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 702.
SALISBURY Preferred English 28 May 1895   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 702.
ALDERBURY SALISBURY Alternate English     Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

The unit has had the following statuses:

Status Abbreviation Start End Authority
Registration District RegD     1911 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 5 , 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'
Poor Law Union PLU     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979) Permission granted to project.

This unit contained the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
ALDERBURY Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
BRITFORD Registration sub-District   01 Jul 1888 Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office)
DOWNTON Registration sub-District     1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
SALISBURY Registration sub-District 21 May 1869   1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ALDERBURY CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1866 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 529.
BRITFORD AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 532.
CLARENDON PARK CP/ParLib/ExP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 535.
COOMBE BISSETT CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 535.
DOWNTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 537.
EARLDOMS CP/ExP Parish-level Unit   1896 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 537.
EAST GRIMSTEAD CP/Ch Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 539.
EAST HARNHAM CP/Ch Parish-level Unit   1904 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 539.
FISHERTON ANGER CP/AP Parish-level Unit   1894 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 538.
FISHERTON ANGER WITHIN CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 538.
FISHERTON ANGER WITHOUT CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 538.
HARNHAM CP Parish-level Unit 1904 1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 539.
HOMINGTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 540.
LANDFORD AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 542.
LANGLEY WOOD CP/ExP Parish-level Unit   1894 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 542.
LAVERSTOCK AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 543.
MELCHET PARK CP/ExP Parish-level Unit   by 1861 1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
MILFORD CP Parish-level Unit 1904 1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 544.
MILFORD CP/Tg Parish-level Unit   1894 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 544.
MILFORD WITHIN CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 545.
MILFORD WITHOUT CP Parish-level Unit 1894 1904 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 545.
MORGANS VALE AND WOODFALLS CP Parish-level Unit 1923   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 545.
NEW SARUM CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 547.
NO MANS LAND CP/ExP Parish-level Unit 15 Dec 1869   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 545.
NUNTON AND BODENHAM CP/Ch Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 545.
ODSTOCK AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 545.
OLD SARUM CP/ExP Parish-level Unit   1894 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 548.
PITTON AND FARLEY CP/Ch Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 546.
REDLYNCH CP/Ch Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 547.
SALISBURY ST EDMUND CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 547.
SALISBURY ST MARTIN CP/AP Parish-level Unit   1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 547.
SALISBURY ST THOMAS AP/CP Parish-level Unit   1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 547.
SALISBURY THE CLOSE OF THE CANONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH CP/ExP Parish-level Unit 1858 1905 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 547.
STANDLYNCH CP/ExP Parish-level Unit   1897 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
STANDLYNCH WITH CHARLTON ALL SAINTS CP Parish-level Unit 1897   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
STRATFORD SUB CASTLE AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
STRATFORD TONY AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
WEST DEAN CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1883 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 536.
WEST GRIMSTEAD CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 539.
WEST HARNHAM CP/Ch Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 539.
WHITEPARISH CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 552.
WINTERSLOW AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 522.

This unit was part of the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
WILTSHIRE Poor Law/Registration County 1850   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 702.
WILTSHIRE Administrative County     Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date Type of change Other unit involved Area transferred Authority
15 Dec 1869 was enlarged by gaining part of NEW FOREST RegD/PLU Lyndhurst lost the parish of No Mans Land to Downton   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jan 1884 was enlarged by gaining part of STOCKBRIDGE RegD/PLU The parish of West Dean moved to Alderbury sub-district   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

Boundary Map of Salisbury Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU)

If the boundaries of the Poor Law Union/Reg. District changed over time, this map will show all the different boundaries.

Maps Census reports

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Salisbury Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10099596

Date accessed: 08th April 2026