LITTLE WASHBOURNE

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
WASHBOURN (LITTLE), a chapelry in the parish of OVERBURY, middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 6½ miles (E. by N.) from Tewkesbury, containing 55 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A hamlet in Overbury Ancient Parish (Worcestershire). A former tithing of Overbury, it was transferred for civil purposes to Gloucestershire in 1844. It was a separate Civil Parish in 1866. Abolished in 1935 entirely to Dumbleton Ancient Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO989334
In Gloucestershire, 6 miles east of Tewkesbury along the A46 & B4077

Parish Church:
St.Mary, Great Washbourne (O.S. Ref: SO987344)
The church was declared redundant on 26 September 1974 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust [80]
Hidden in an orchard with views of the Cotswolds and Bredon Hill, the setting of Little Washbourne church is very beautiful. The walls are of warm local stone with Cotswold slate roofs to match and, though considerably rebuilt over the years, the structure is largely Norman. Inside is a remarkably complete and elegant 18th century scheme of furnishing: with a fine altar table, box pews and pulpit with its tester, uniformly and very stylishly panelled, and all lit through clear 18th century windows. [40]

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

Hundred:
Kifsgate [25]

Poor Law Union:
Winchcombe [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Beckford (Gloucestershire); Great Washbourne (Gloucestershire); Alderton (Gloucestershire); Alstone (Gloucestershire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1813-1981	[5]
	Marriages	1841-1959	[5]

For entries prior to 1813 see Alstone.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1619 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1789-1811; 1813-77

Register Copies:
Christenings 1813-1981 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984 Society of Genealogists [68]

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.
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 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1861 - 91 Gloucestershire Archives

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