Edgeworth, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Edgeworth, a parish in Gloucestershire, 6½ miles NW of Cirencester. It has a post office under Cirencester; money order and telegraph office, Sapperton. Acreage, 1598; population, 140. The surface is hilly. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £254 with residence. The church, which is Early English with Norman work, has been entirely restored. It has a fine modern oak screen and painted windows.
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 | Edgworth St. Mary | |
Hundred | Bisley | |
Poor Law union | Cirencester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Edgworth 1554-1812, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1554.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary the Virgin (parish church)
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone, chiefly in the Early Perpendicular style, but with some Norman portions, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells, rehung in 1895: it was entirely restored in various years by the Rev. G. F. E. Shaw M.A. rector 1864-1904, and the late H. G. W. Sperling esq. and has over 100 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 Edgeworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Edgworth (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Edgeworth 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.