Arlingham, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Arlingham, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, on the left side of the Severn, within a fold of that river, nearly opposite Newnham station on the South Wales branch of the G.W.R., and 8 miles WNW of Stonehouse. The parish has a post office under Stonehouse; money order and telegraph office, Saul. Acreage, 2459, with 737 of water; population of the civil parish, 566; of the ecclesiastical, 503. Much of the land is marshy. Some spots command a fine view of the Severn and its screens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £150. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1868, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Arlingham St. Mary the Virgin | |
Hundred | Berkeley | |
Poor Law union | Wheatenhurst |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register of baptisms dates from the year 1539; burials, 1540; marriages, 1566.
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 a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated and Early Perpendicular styles, consisting or chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the east window is stained and there are 6 other stained windows, one of which is a memorial to John Sayer esq. and two dating back to the 13th century: the church was restored in 1868 at & cost of £300, and has 300 sittings.
Methodist
Methodist Chapel
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 Arlingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Arlingham (St. Mary the Virgin))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Arlingham 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.