Kingscote, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Kingscote, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands among the Cotswolds, 5 miles NW by W of Tetbury, and 4 SW of Nailsworth station on the M.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wotton-under-Edge. The parish comprises 1879 acres: population, 233. The manor was known at Domesday as Chingescote, belonged to the Fitzhardinges, passed to the Kingscote family in the reign of Henry II., in whose possession it remains. Kingscote Park is the chief residence. Roman coins, pavements, and other relics have been found. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Newington Bagpath, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; joint net value, £270. The church is Early English, was restored in 1864, and consists of nave, N transept, and chancel, with porch and square tower.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Kingscote 1652-1812, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.

The register dates from the year 1651.

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

Churches

Church of England

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 Kingscote from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingscote (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kingscote 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.