Little Barrington, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Barrington, Little, a parish in Gloucestershire, 3 miles WNW of Burford, and 7 SW of Shipton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Burford (R.S.O. Oxon). Acreage, 1113; population 135. Barrington Grove, the seat of the lord of the manor, is a handsome mansion surrounded by plantations. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is very ancient; it has an embattled tower, and contains monuments to the Greyhurst and Greenaway families.
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 | Little Barrington St. Peter | |
Hundred | Slaughter | |
Poor Law union | Northleach |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1687.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone, in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: there are monuments to the Greyhurst family (1730) and that of Greenaway (1815): the church affords 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 Little Barrington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barrington, Little (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little Barrington 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.