Winson, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Winson, a township-chapelry in Bibury parish, Gloucestershire, 2 miles from Foss Cross station on the Midland and South-Westem Junction railway, and 6 NE of Cirencester. Post town, Fairford (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Bibury. Acreage, 1216; population, 134. The living is annexed to Bibury. The church is Early English and Perpendicular, with a Norman porch.
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 | Bibury | |
Hundred | Bradley | |
Poor Law union | Northleach |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1577.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is a small building of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, a fine porch of Norman date, and a western turret containing 2 bells: the nave is fitted with low open oak seats, the chancel with stalls: the stained east window was presented by Lady Wilson, of Eshton, Yorks: there are 100 sittings.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Winson from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Winson 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)
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.