Bromsberrow, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Bromsberrow or Bromsborough, a parish in Gloucestershire, on the verge of the county, 4 miles SE of Ledbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post office, Bromsberrow Heath, under Gloucester, money order office, Redmarley; telegraph office, Eastnor. Acreage, 1810; population, 282. The manor was granted by Cromwell to Colonel Yate for his services in the Civil War, and passed to the Ricardo family, in whose possession it remains. Bromsberrow Place, tbs manor house, is an extensive mansion in a good situation. Perry is made in this parish. The living is a rectory in thf diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £309 with residence. The church is ancient and excellent, and contains-two standards belonging to a regiment of cavalry of the Parliamentarian army commanded by Colonel Yate.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bromsberrow St. Mary | |
Hundred | Botloe | |
Poor Law union | Newent |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Bromesberrow 1558-1837, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1558.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, with chapel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch and a western tower with spire, containing 6 bells; the mortuary chapel adjoining the chancel was built by the Yate family, under a faculty, in the year 1725; in the chapel are two cavalry standards, one formerly belonging to the Parliamentary army, in which Colonel Yate commanded a regiment, and the other to the Royalist army, in which his brother commanded a regiment; there are some remains of ancient painted glass, formerly in Llanthony Abbey, near Gloucester, and preserved by the late Rev. Henry Dobyns Yate LL.D. a former incumbent: the church was restored about 1859, and the tower and spire added in 1874: in 1910 a vestry was added, and in the same year the Yate chapel was restored by William P. Robinson esq. a descendant of the Yate family: there are 200 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bromsberrow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bromsberrow (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.