Cow Honeybourne, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Cow-Honeybourne, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, at the boundary with Worcestershire, 4 miles NW of Chipping-Campden, and 5 E of Evesham, with a station called Honeyboume on the G.W.R., and a post office of the same name under Broadway, Worcestershire; money order office, Broadway; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 1377; population, 428. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Church Honeyboume in the diocese of Worcester. The church was rebuilt in 1862, and is unconse-crated. 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 | |
Hundred | Kiftsgate | |
Poor Law union | Evesham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register is included in that of Church Honeybourne, an adjoining parish in Worcestershire, which dates from 1673.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
not dedicated
The chapel is a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell: it was repaired, with the exception of the tower, in 1861-2: there are 180 sittings; but the inhabitants chiefly attend that of Honeybourne.
Methodist
Wesleyan 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 Cow Honeybourne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Honeybourne, Cow)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
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.