Bentham, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Bentham, a hamlet in Badgworth parish, Gloucestershire, 1½ mile SE of Badgworth.
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 | Badgeworth | |
Hundred | Dudstone and Kings Barton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of Holy Trinity, Badgeworth, dates from the year 1559.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter's Chapel
St. Peter's, a chapel of ease to the parish church of Badgeworth, erected in 1889 by Mrs. Strangways, as a memorial to her brother and son, is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of nave and south porch: the stained west window is a memorial to Mrs. Strangways (d. 1891): there are 200 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bentham from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bentham 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)