Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Duntisborne-Rouse, a village and parish in Gloucestershire, adjacent to Ermine-Street, 4 miles NNW of Cirencester. Post town, Cirencester. Acreage, 2260; population, 119. The manor belongs to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £175 with residence. Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is partly Norman and Early English, and contains a very perfect Early English preaching cross. There are remains of Saxon masonry in the walls. Beneath the chancel is a crypt.
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 | Duntsbourn-Rouse St. Michael | |
Hundred | Crowthorne and Minety | |
Poor Law union | Cirencester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Duntisbourne Rous 1549-1837, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1545.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is an edifice of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel and nave, south porch, and a gabled western tower of the 12th century, containing 2 bells: there is an under croft or crypt beneath the chancel, and a font of the Early English period: the church will seat 50 persons.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Duntisbourne Rouse from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Duntsbourn-Rouse (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Duntisbourne Rouse 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.