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Falfield, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Falfield, a tithing and an ecclesiastical parish in Thornbury parish, Gloucestershire, 3½ miles NE by E of Thornbury. Falfield forms with Morton a tithing. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Eastwood House is the chief residence. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1863. Population, 529. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £140 with residence. The church was built in 1860. 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 
Civil parishThornbury 
HundredThornbury 
Poor Law unionThornbury 

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


Church Records

The separate register dates only from the year 1813; all earlier entries relating to this place are included in the Thornbury registers.

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


Churches

Church of England

St. George (parish church)

The church of St. George, erected in 1860 at a cost of £1,460, partly given by the late Sir George Samuel Jenkinson bart. is a building of red sandstone in the Early English style, from designs by Mr. Dawkes, architect, and consists of chancel, nave and south porch, over which is an open bell turret with a small octagonal broach spire and containing 1 bell: the east window was filled with stained glass at the expense of the late Sir G. S. Jenkinson bart.: the stained west window was erected by Sir G. B. Jenkinson bart. as a memorial to Sir G. S. Jenkinson, d. 1892, and Emily Sophia, his wife, and there are others to Anthony Lyster esq. of Stillorgan Park, Dublin, father of the late Lady Jenkinson; to Robert Anthony Banks Jenkinson, and son of Sir G. S. Jenkinson bart. accidentally killed June 21, 1882; and to a daughter of the Rev. E. Hoare, a former rector of this parish: there are 200 sittings.

Congregational

Congregational Chapel

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Falfield from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Falfield 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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