Broad Blunsdon, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Status: Chapelry (Highworth parish)
Other places in the parish include: Bury Blunsdon
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
* Parish registers: 1680
* Bishop’s Transcripts: 1585
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Broad Blunsdon
- Blunsdon St Andrew
- Castle Eaton
- Stanton Fitzwarren
- Eisey
- Stratton St Margaret
- Hannington
- Cricklade St Sampson
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BLUNSDON (Broad), a chapelry in Highworth parish, Wilts; 3½ miles SE of Cricklade, and 4 N of Swindon r. station. It includes the tything of Bury-Blunsdon; and has a post office under Swindon. Acres, 2,260. Rated property, £2,194. Pop., 806. Houses, 198. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of G. and B. The church is good.
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 Peculiar of the Prebendal of Highworth
Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 - None, Post-1846 - Cricklade
Poor Law Union: Highworth and Swindon
Hundred: Highworth, Cricklade and Staple
Province: Canterbury