Hasleton, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Hasleton, a village, a township, and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands among the Cotswolds, 3 miles NW of Northleach, and 2¼ S of Notgrove station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Cheltenham; money order and telegraph office, Northleach. Acreage of township, 1566; population, 172. The parish includes the hamlet and chapelry of Yanworth. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 303. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Yanworth, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; joint net yearly value, £247 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Norman, and was restored in 1866.

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 County	Gloucestershire
Ecclesiastical parish	Hazleton St. Andrew
Hundred	Bradley
Poor Law union	Northleach

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

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1597.

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

Churches

Church of England

St. Andrew (parish church)

The church of St. Andrew is a small building of stone, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 2 bells: the church was restored in 1866, when it was reseated with low open seats and the chancel with stalls and a small stained east window inserted: there are also three other stained windows: there are 130 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 Hasleton from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hazleton (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hasleton 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.