Timeline events for date 1851

Comunity Date Events
1851 AD Population of Wiltshire 254,000. County Lunatic Asylum opened at Devizes.
Aldbourne 1851 AD A new windmill beside Baydon Street built by this time
Amesbury 1851 AD Amesbury Union Workhouse School in existence
Ashton Keynes 1851 AD Villagers signed a petition requesting a public health inspection.
Ashton Keynes 1851 AD The census records 122 agricultural labourers; second in this list are the 55 glovers.
Box 1851 AD The infants and girls of the Charity School were transferred to the new Henley Girls' School, whilst the boys continued to be taught in what was the workhouse (now Springfield)
Broughton Gifford 1851 AD Scarlet fever epidemic, resulting in 17 deaths, all dwellers on the undrained Common. Baron Boughton (A Hobhouse) created.
Hullavington 1851 AD Population is 708 and census Sunday records an average attendance of 56 at the Independants and Baptists' chapel
Marlborough 1851 AD Plymouth Brethren meeting in Kingsbury Street
Purton 1851 AD Organ installed at St. Mary's church replacing musicians
Ramsbury 1851 AD Population reaches a peak of 2,696; Meyrick's boarding school moves to Chiseldon
Ramsbury 1851 AD Congregational Chapel built at Axford
Sherston 1851 AD The Primitive Methodist Church opens
Wootton Bassett 1851 AD Wesleyan Methodist services begin