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England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Horsenden lies in southern Buckinghamshire roughly 7 miles southeast of the Oxfordshire market town of Thame. Horsenden is located just under a mile south of the B4009 road which skirts the edges of the Chiltern Hills from Dunstable to Watlington. Horsenden is a tiny place consisting merely of a small group of farms & cottages surrounding the church, in reality today's Horsenden is a mere extension of neighbouring Princes Risborough. Horsenden is also peculiar in the size and shape of its parish which consists of a narrow strip of land barely metres wide but extending from the Vale of Oxford clays up onto the tops of the chalk hills of the Chilterns. The purpose of this strange shape was to grant an share of each of the land types to the parish so a varied mixture of arable and pastoral, both cattle & sheep, pertained. Horsenden is drained northwestwards by a small stream which merges with the Cuttle Brook and then the River Thame before curving back south to meet the Thames, from that point matters turn east passing through the capital to the North Sea. Horsenden is sited at around 100 metres above the sea but views to the southeast are dominated by the nearby Chiltern Hill which top out at 236 metres at Windnill Hill. Horsenden's thin strip of land occupied only just over 500 acres making it one of the smallest rural parishes in its county, within that acreage fewer than 50 parishioners could be supported. In Domesday times tiny Horsenden was surprisingly shared by 3 landholders with Count Robert of Mortain holding the lion's share of 5 ploughs, a meadow and a mill. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
21st May 1754 - 4th December 1810 |
Buckinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR106/1/2 |
Plain, ruled & margined book containing combined Banns
& Marriages |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
2 | 17th February 1818 - 27th March 1837 | Buckinghamshire Archives - Reference - PR106/1/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Poor handwriting may result in a misread |
Saunderton
St Mary
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Saunderton
St Mary
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Bradenham
St Botolph
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