Edgcott, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Edgcott, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire, 3 miles SSW from Claydon station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7½ S by W from Buckingham. Post town. Aylesbury; money order office, Grendon; telegraph office, Marsh Gibbon. Acreage, 1140; population, 150. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. The church is a small but ancient building of stone in the Early English style. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Edgecott St. Michael | |
Hundred | Buckingham | |
Poor Law union | Buckingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1538.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The parish church of St. Michael is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: the south doorway is Perpendicular, and the font Decorated: some of the woodwork is of the 16th century: the vestry was added in 1875 by the Rev. M. W . Davies M.A. rector 1874-1905: there is a brass tablet bearing the names of the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Great War, 1914-18: there are 90 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Edgcott was in Buckingham Registration District from 1837 to 1935
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Edgcott from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Edgecott (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Edgcott 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 Buckinghamshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online