East Woodhay Hampshire Family History Guide

East Woodhay is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Ashmansworth is a chapelry of East Woodhay.

Other places in the parish include: Woolton Hill.

Parish church: St. Martin

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1610
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Primitive Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

East Woodhay Parish Registers

East Woodhay Marriages 1618 to 1812 Edited by W. P.W. Phillimore, S. Andrews and J. F. Williams Vol. 9. Published London 1907. Issued to the subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 124 Chancery Lane. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

East Woodhay Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOODHAY (East), a parish, with numerous hamlets and with Woolton-Hill chapelry, in Kingsclere district, Hants; 4½ miles SSE of Kintbury r. station, and 4½ SW of Newbury. Post town, Newbury. Acres, 4,966. Real property, £6,795. Pop., 1,533. Houses, 346. The property is much subdivided. A palace of the Bishops of Winchester was here. The living is a rectory, united with Ashmansworth, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £1,078. Patron, the Bishop of W. The church’s chancel was rebuilt in 1850. The vicarage of Woolton-Hill is a separate benefice. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, national schools, and charities £16. Bishops Hooper, Ken, and Lowth were rectors.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WOODHAY, EAST (St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Kingsclere, hundred of Evingar, Kingsclere and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from Newbury; containing 1408 inhabitants. This parish is situated at the north-western extremity of the county, immediately under a range of hills, and comprises 4966a. 29p.: the surface is ornamented with numerous clumps of trees, and the soil is rich, resting in some places on clay, and in others on chalk. In addition to a small village adjacent to the church, the parish contains the two large villages of East End and North-End. It is traversed by the road from Newbury to Andover.

The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Ashmansworth annexed, valued in the king’s books at £21. 6. 0½., and in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester: the tithes have been commuted for £1021. 14.; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe comprises 43¾ acres. The church, rebuilt at the expense of the parishioners, in 1823, contains a handsome monument to the Goddard family, who were long settled here. Bishops Hooper, Ken, and Louth, were formerly rectors. The Independents and Primitive Methodists have each a place of worship. In the parish was anciently a palace belonging to the bishops of Winchester.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

East Woodhay Parish Records

East Woodhay School Records

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Administration

County: Hampshire
Civil Registration District: Kingsclere
Probate Court: Mid-1500s-1800 – Court of the Peculiar of East Woodhay with Ashmansworth, Post-1770 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
Diocese: Winchester
Rural Deanery: Pre-1770 – None, Post-1769 – Andover
Poor Law Union: Kingsclere
Hundred: Evingar
Province: Canterbury