Blunsdon St Andrew, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Status: Ancient Parish
Alternative names: Little Blunsden, Little Blunsdon, St Andrew Blunsdon
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin:
* Parish registers: 1650
* Bishop’s Transcripts: 1668
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Blunsdon St Andrew
- Broad Blunsdon
- Purton
- Stratton St Margaret
- Cricklade St Sampson
- Rodbourne Cheney
Historical Descriptions of Blunsdon St Andrew
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BLUNSDON-ST. ANDREW, or Little Blunsdon, a parish in Highworth district, Wilts; 3½ miles SSE of Cricklade, and 3½ NNW of Swindon r. station. Post Town, Broad-Blunsdon, under Swindon. Acres, 1,422. Real property, with Broad-Blunsdon and Bury-Blunsdon, £5,858. Pop., 84. Houses, 16. The property is divided among a few. Blunsdon Castle Hill has a camp, commonly regarded as Roman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £305. Patron, H. Calley, Esq. The church is fair.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
County: Wiltshire
Civil Registration District: Highworth
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire
Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
Rural Deanery: Cricklade
Poor Law Union: Highworth and Swindon
Hundred: Highworth, Cricklade and Staple
Province: Canterbury