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Charfield, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Charfield, a parish in Gloucestershire, on an affluent of the Severn, under the Cotswolds, 2½ miles SW of Wotton-under-Edge. It has a station on the M.R., and a post office (R.S.O.); the telegraph office is at the railway station. Acreage, 1383; population, 540. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £260 with residence. The church is ancient; a new church was erected in 1882, and an endowed church school was rebuilt in 1893. There is 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 CountyGloucestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishCharfield St. James 
HundredGrumbalds-Ash 
Poor Law unionThornbury 

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


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1587.

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


Churches

Church of England

St. James (parish church)

The old church of St. James, closed in 1882, is a building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisle, north porch and a low embattled western tower, with saddle-back roof, containing one large bell: in the chancel are mural tablets to Daniel Hicks, 1713, and other members of the Hicks family, and to the family of Wallington, also to the Rev. Richard Jones, rector from 1804, and to the Rev. Richard Prankerd Jones, also rector from 1816, as well as to several members of the Tyndale family, formerly rectors of the parish, who are interred in the chancel; one service is held yearly in this church in July.

St. John (parish church)

The new church of St. John, situated a mile south and erected in 1882 at a cost of £2,500, is an edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle with porch, and a shingled bell turret on the western gable; it is seated throughout in oak, and has 260 sittings.

Congregational

Congregational Chapel

The Congregational chapel, erected in 1847, has 200 sittings.


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 Charfield from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Charfield 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.

CountySouth Gloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtGL12

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