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 through time
Semley is now part of Salisbury district. Click here for graphs and data of how Salisbury has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Semley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Semley, in Salisbury and Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12091
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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