Bagshot Surrey Family History Guide
Bagshot, formerly a chapelry in Windlesham parish and a tithing of Windlesham civil parish, Surrey, it was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1874.
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1837
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Bagshot, formerly a tithing of Windlesham civil parish, Surrey, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1874.
The town stands on the borders of Berkshire, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 32 miles from London. Acreage, 2197; population, 1408. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office.
It was a place of hotels, posting-houses, and much thoroughfare prior to the railway period, and it bore the name of Holy Hall in the times of the Stuart kings.
Bagshot Park, to the N of it, has been a royal park from the time of the Conquest. It was a favourite hunting seat of the Stuart kings, and a residence of George IV. when Prince of Wales, and passed afterwards to the Duke of Gloucester. It is now in the possession of the Duke of Connaught. An American garden and a neighbouring large nursery are remarkable for very fine azaleas and rhododendrons.
The living is a vicarage; net value, £275 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The Church of St Anne, erected at a cost of £6000 in 1884, is a building of red brick in the Geometric style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Bagshot heath was once an enclosed royal hunting-ground, but was disparked during the Civil War in the time Charles I., and it afterwards lay long waste, and was the scene of many highway robberies. The palings were restored by Charles II. and deer brought over from France. It is now enclosed, and many parts of it are planted with fir trees. The geologic nature of it is so peculiar as to give the name of Bagshot sand to the uppermost deposit of the so-called London basin.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BAGSHOT, a village and a chapelry in Windlesham parish, Surrey, and an extensive heath in Surrey and Berks. The village stands on the Great Western road, 5½ miles NNE of Farnborough r. station, and 10 SW of Staines. It has a post office under Farnborough station, and an inn; and a fair is held at it on 15 July.
It was a place of hotels, posting-houses, and much thoroughfare prior to the railway period; and it bore the name of Holy Hall in the times of the Stuart kings. Bagshot Park, to the N of it, was a hunting-seat of these kings, and a residence of George IV. when Prince of Wales, and passed afterwards to the Duke of Gloucester. An American garden here, and a neighbouring large nursery, are remarkable for very fine azaleas and rhododendrons.
The chapelry includes fully one half of Windlesham parish. The rated property amounts to £2,250, and is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Windlesham. The church was built by the Duke of Gloucester about 1816.
There is a Baptist chapel.
The heath contains 31,500 acres; and is a sandy flat, diversified with long dusky ridges, at an elevation of 463 feet above sea-level. It was once an enclosed royal hunting ground; but was disparked during the civil war in the time of Charles I.; and it afterwards lay long waste, and was the scene of many highway robberies. Much of it has been again enclosed, and subjected to the plough, and produces tolerable corn crops; and the rest is notable for depasturing small sheep, with very excellent mutton. The geologic nature of it is so peculiar as to give the name of Bagshot sand to the uppermost deposit of the so called London basin.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriage Allegations
The following people from Surrey have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.
BAZING, Jethro, of Bagshot, co. Surrey, and Martha Hombry, of Horsell, at Weyhill or Andover, 19 Sep., 1717.
KINGSWORTH, Richard, of Bagshot, co. Surrey, waiter, 21, b., & Mary Reed, of Overton, 21, sp., 16 July, 1765.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Directories
Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880
BAGSHOT
Boot & Shoe Makers
Cranham William
Granger William
Robinson Martin
Coach & Carriage Builder
Chapman William
Saddler & Harness Maker
Houlton James
Maps
OS Grid Reference: SU9062663263 (all-numeric format: 490626 163263)