and Lord High Treasurer to Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Fisherton continued to belong to the Paulets as Dukes of Bolton. The Fisherton estate was owned by the Dukes of Somerset in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Bapton was owned by Sir Cecil Chubb from 1927, and he lived at Bapton Manor. In 1939 his heirs sold his estate to Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, who died in 1940. Church The Church of England parish church, St Nicholas's Church, built in the 14th century in a chequerboard pattern of flint and Chilmark stone, stands on a hill overlooking the River Wylye at the centre of the village. It is now a Grade II* listed building in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The parish registers survive in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre for the following dates: christenings 1561–1895, marriages 1566–1992, and burials 1569–1992. Governance Almost all of the present village of Fisherton de la Mere is now part of the parish of Wylye. However, as the River Wylye is the parish boundary, Fisherton Mill (lying on the south of the river) is in Stockton. The village comes under the Wylye parish council and is in the area of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for almost all significant local government functions. It forms part of the South West Wiltshire Parliament constituency, and the serving Member of Parliament is Andrew Murrison. Notable people Sir Elias Delamere, of Fisherton Delamere, High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1413 William Paulet, later Lord Chamberlain, Secretary of State, Lord High Treasurer and first Marquess of Winchester, was probably born at Fisherton de la Mere Granville Ryder, a former Member of Parliament for Salisbury, owned Fisherton De La Mere House from 1895 until his death in 1901. List of vicars William de Beloney: 1314 John Conge: early 15th century Joel Doughty: 1596–1613 Thomas Crockford: 1613–1634 Edward Seymour: 1793 William Davis: 1807 Edward Graves Meyrick: 1813 William Davison Thring DD: 1844 Thomas John Davis: 1854–1868 W. G. N. Fenwick: 1868–1883 Thomas Ratcliffe:1885–1893 Raymond Williams: 1897 References Villages in Wiltshire Former civil parishes in Wiltshire