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Brimscombe, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Brimscombe, a tithing, a village, and an ecclesiastical parish in Minchinhampton and Rodborough parishes, Gloucestershire. The village stands adjacent to the Thames and Severn Canal, 2½ miles ESE of Stroud, and has a station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stroud. The ecclesiastical parish includes the hamlets of Burleigh, Hyde, Cowcombe, and Wall's Quarry, and was constituted in 1840. Population, 1585. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £231 with residence. The church was built in 1839 and restored in 1881. There is also a Wesleyan 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 CountyGloucestershire 
HundredBisley 
Poor Law unionStroud 

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


Church Records

The register dates from the year 1841.

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


Churches

Church of England

Holy Trinity (parish church)

The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in the year 1839, is a building of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret over the porch containing a clock and 4 bells: a new organ was erected in 1897, at a cost of £210, as a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. Queen Victoria: the church was re-pewed, new roofed, an organ chamber added, the gallery rebuilt and the entrance doors altered in 1881, at a cost of about £800, and various restorations were carried out during 1909 at a total cost of £450: there are 350 sittings.

Methodist

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brimscombe from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Brimscombe are available from a number of sites:


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.

DistrictStroud
CountyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtGL5
Post TownStroud

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