COW HONEYBOURNE

Status:
A chapel in Gloucestershire (Kiftsgate Hundred) in Church Honeybourne Ancient Parish (otherwise Worcestershire, Blackenhurst Hundred). Cow Honeybourne had a separate civil identity early in Gloucestershire. It was ecclesiastically united early to Church Honeybourne and the union was reaffirmed 1885. Cow Honeybourne was transferred from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire in 1931. Abolished civilly in 1953 to help Honeybourne Civil Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP114436
5 miles east of Evesham

Hundred:
Upper Kiftsgate [44]

Parish Registers:
There was a church, but the parishioners mainly attended the Church at Honeybourne & the register is included in that of Church Honeybourne.[5]

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:
1851-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841-51 Gloucestershire Archives
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Evesham registration district RG 12/2335-2337 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists

Directories:
HONEYBOURNE (COW), a parish-in the upper division of the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 4 miles (N. W.) from Chipping-Campden, containing 333 inhabitants. The living was annexed to the perpetual curacy of Church-Honeybourne at the dissolution. The church, long in ruins, has been converted into houses for the poor, but the tower is still entire. A free school was established by subscription in 1806, when a school-room was erected, with a residence for the master, whose salary, amounting to £23 per annum, arises from the interest of certain stock purchased with the overplus, and the liberal contribution of Cotterill Corbet, Esq. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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