Horcott, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Horcott, a hamlet in Kempsford parish, Gloucestershire, 2 miles S of Fairford.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Civil parish | Kempsford | |
Hundred | Brightwells-Barrow | |
Poor Law union | Cirencester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Baptist
Baptist Mission Hall
Roman Catholic
St. Thomas of Canterbury
The Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury, has sittings for 100 persons, and an attached cemetery and presbytery.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Horcott from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Horcott are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.