Wormington, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Wormington, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, 4 miles SE of Hinton station on the M.R., and 6 S of Evesham. Post town, Broadway. Acreage, 532; population, 87. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £50. The church was restored in 1885.
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 | Wormington Holy Trinity | |
| Hundred | Kiftsgate | |
| Poor Law union | Winchcomb |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore & co. transcript of the Marriages at Wormington 1719-1812 is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1615.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Catharine (parish church)
The church of St. Catharine is a building of stone in the Anglo-Norman or Transitional style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, aisles and small embattled tower of wood on the western gable containing one bell: on the south chancel wall there is a curious brass with figures of a woman and child in bed, erected in memory of Ann (Daston), wife of John Savage, ob. June 17, 1605; there are also several mural tablets to the Gist family: the church was restored in 1885 at a cost of £500, from the designs of Mr. Henry Kennedy, of Bangor: there are sittings for 120 persons.
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 Wormington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wormington (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wormington 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.