BRICKLEHAMPTON

Descriptive Notes:
"Bricklehampton is the longest isogrammatic place-name in English. Its 14 letters make it the longest such name in the language. In a first-order isogram, each letter appears just once." [David Crystal in The Guardian (Saturday May 19, 2007)]

Status:
A chapel in Pershore St Andrew Ancient Parish and a separate Civil Parish 1866. It was ecclesiastically severed in 1922 to help create Elmley Castle with Bricklehampton Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO982424
3½ miles west of Evesham & 3½ miles S.E. of Pershore

Parish Church:
St. Michael

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1] [25]

Hundred:
Upper Pershore [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Fladbury; Cropthorne; Elmley Castle; Little Comberton; Wick [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1718-1967	[5]
	Marriages	1725-1968	[5]
	Burials	1722-1968	[5]
	Banns	[1824]-1966	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1754-75	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1611 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1611-1700; 1718-1875
	Marriages	1725-1727; 1740-1749; 1756-1844

Register Copies:
Christenings 1718-84; Marriages 1725-49; Burials1722-84 [Microfilm.] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1970 Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Michael & All Angels BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. Michael & All Angels: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 8 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1988 - Authors: Bushell, L & Farmer, G R Society of Genealogists [59]

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841-71 1891-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1722-1968 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Bricklehampton School
Log books (2 vols) - 1874 - 1922 - Ref: BA 531

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

Other Sources:
Bredon Hill & its Villages (1968) by R H Lloyd Society of Genealogists

Directories:
BRICKLEHAMPTON, a chapelry in the parish of ST. ANDREW, PERSHORE, upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 4¼ miles (S. E.) from Pershore, containing 156 inhabitants. The curacy, annexed to the vicarage of St. Andrew, Pershore, is in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, and rated in the king's books at £2. 14. 2. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 5th February 2010

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