Bemerton, Wiltshire

Location Map

Bemerton is a suburban area in Salisbury, Wiltshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Bemerton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Bemerton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Bemerton, chapelry, Fugglestone St Peter par., S. Wilts, 1½ mile NW. of Salisbury; George Herbert, the poet (1593-1632), John Norris, poet and metaphysician (1657-1711), and Archdeacon Coxe, traveller and historian (1747-1828), were rectors.

Bemerton in the Domesday Book

A village in Branchbury hundred, in the county of Wiltshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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