Hambrook (Winterbourne), Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Hambrook, a hamlet in Frenchay ecclesiastical and Winterbourne civil parishes, Gloucestershire, 5 miles NNE of Bristol. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Fishponds (R.S.O.) It contains a small hospital and a Congregational chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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	Winterbourne
Hundred	Langley and Swinehead
Poor Law union	Clifton

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The register of Frenchay dates from the year 1834

The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.

Churches

Church of England

Hambrook Mission Chapel

The Mission Chapel here belongs to the Ecclesiastical parish of St. John the Baptist, Frenchay.

Congregational

Congregational Chapel

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hambrook (Winterbourne) from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hambrook)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Hambrook (Winterbourne) 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.