Bushey is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hertfordshire.
Other places in the parish include: Bushey Heath.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1684
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1560
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Roman Catholic.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BUSHEY (St. James), a parish, in the union of Watford, hundred of Dacorum, though locally in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban’s, county of Hertford, 1¼ mile (S. E.) from Watford; containing 2675 inhabitants. This place appears to have attained some importance at an early period; and in the third of Edward I., David de Jarpanville, in answer to a writ of quo warranto issued by that monarch, claimed the privilege of holding a market here. The parish comprises 3188 acres, of which 970 are arable, and nearly all the rest meadow and pasture; 267 acres are common or waste: it is intersected by the London and Birmingham railway, which passes within a mile of the church. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £18. 2. 1., and in the patronage of Exeter College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for £765, and the glebe contains 35 acres, with a house. At Bushey Heath is St. Peter’s church, consecrated in June, 1837, a handsome edifice in the early English style, containing 400 sittings, of which 200 are free: the Rector is patron.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Parish Records
Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Watford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of St Albans
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – London
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – St Albans, Post-1844 -Watford
- Poor Law Union: Watford
- Hundred: Dacorum
- Province: Canterbury