Newington Bagpath, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Newington Bagpath, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, among the Cotswolds, 4 miles SE by E of Dursley station, and 5½ E by N of Charfield station on the M.R., and 6 WNW of Tetbury. Post town, Wotton-under-Edge; money order and telegraph office, Kingscote. Acreage, 1975; population of the civil parish, 179; of the ecclesiastical, with Kingscote, 418. The manor belongs to the Kingscote family. Bagpath Court was formerly a mansion and is now a farm-house. Lasborough Park is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Kingscote, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £277. The church is Early English.

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 Newington Bagpath (Bishops Transcripts), Gloucestershire is available to browse online.

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Newington Bagpath 1686-1812, Gloucestershire is available to browse online.

The register dates from the year 1686.

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 Newington Bagpath from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newington-Bagpath (St. Bartholomew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Newington Bagpath 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.