Wrestlingworth Bedfordshire Family History Guide

Status: Ancient Parish

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1578
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

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Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WRESTLINGWORTH, a parish, with a village, in Biggleswade district, Beds; 2¾ miles ESE of Potton r. station. It has a post-office under St. Neots. Acres, 1,620. Real property, £2,441. Pop., 657. Houses, 139. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English and good. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £61.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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Administration

County: Bedfordshire
Civil Registration District: Biggleswade
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
Rural Deanery: Shefford
Poor Law Union: Biggleswade
Hundred: Biggleswade
Province: Canterbury

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

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