Fulmer, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Fulmer, a village and a parish in Bucks. The village stands 4½ miles NNE of Slough station on the G.W.R., and 4½ ESE of Beaconsfield. The parish includes also the village of Gerrard's Cross, which has a post, money order, and telegraph, office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1895; population of the civil parish, 349; of the ecclesiastical, 229. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, o£with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church was built by Sir Marmaduke Darell in 1610, contains his tomb and helmet, was enlarged in 1877 by the late Mrs Dent, and again in 1882 by members of her family in her memory. The living of Gerrard's Cross is a separate charge. Fulmer Hall, Fulmer Place, and Fernacres are chief residences.
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 | Fulmer St. James | |
Hundred | Stoke | |
Poor Law union | Eton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1700.
Churches
Church of England
St. James (parish church)
The parish church of St. James is a small building of brick and stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, north porch and an embettled western tower containing 6 bells, and a clock, presented by Sir John C. Willoughby bart. in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897: the church waa rebuilt in 1610 at the expense of Sir Marmaduke Darell kt. of Fulmer, ob. March 22, 1631, and whose remains were here interred: in the chancel is a carved marble monument to him, and including recumbent figures of himself and Dame Ann (Lennard), his wife; in 1877 Mrs. Dent. of Fernacres, erected at her expense a new chancel, and added a vestry and organ-chamber in memory of her son, Lancelot William Dent; during the years 1878, 1882 and 1884 a new chancel was built, a south aisle added, the church, including the belfry and bells, restored, and the interior reseated in solid oak as a memorial to Mrs. Dent: there are 200 sittings.
Civil Registration
Fulmer was in Eton Registration District from 1837 to 1974
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Fulmer from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fulmer (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Fulmer 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