Stert Parish (CP/Tg) through time

Stert Parish (CP/Tg)

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

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

Social class and socio-economic groups. Concentrations of professionals, and of unskilled labourers.

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

Formal status

The unit has had the following statuses:

Status	Abbreviation	Start	End	Authority
Civil Parish	CP	1866		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979) Permission granted to project.
Tything	Tg			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979) Permission granted to project.

Higher level units

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	Authority
WILTSHIRE	Ancient County		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
DEVIZES RegD/PLU	Poor Law Union/Reg. District	1866	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
BISHOPS CANNINGS	Registration sub-District		1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
DEVIZES RSD	Sanitary District		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
DEVIZES RD	Local Government District		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
DEVIZES	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'.
SWANBOROUGH Hundred	Ancient District		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.
URCHFONT AP/CP	Parish-level Unit		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 549.

Boundaries and changes

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date	Type of change	Other unit involved	Area transferred	Authority
31 Dec 1894	was enlarged by the abolition of	FULLAWAY CP/ExP	Houses in 1901: 3.	1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 14, 'Changes in the Boundaries of Civil Parishes, effected Local Government Acts of 1899 and 1894, and by Local Acts since 1891 - Inhabited Houses and Population 1901'.; LGBO 31776 (Appointed day, 1894)

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How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Stert Parish (CP/Tg) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10412390

Date accessed: 08th April 2026