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The ParishThe parish of Minchinhampton lies in central southern Gloucestershire not too far from its border with neighbouring Wiltshire. Minchinhampton is located about 3 miles southeast of the industrial town of Stroud and sits on the Cotswold Hills. Minchinhampton is a very large village and a market town albeit small for that status. Minchinhampton sits, in lanes, about a mile south of the A419 road which connects Stroud with Cirencester. The village sits on a narrow ridge of limestone between the deeply incised valleys of the Golden Valley & Nailsworth Valley. Minchinhampton was granted a market in the reign of Henry III and grew slowly supporting the local farming community. Industry grew Minchinhampton to its present size, notably the manufacture of woollen cloth from the fleeces of the ubiquitous Cotswold Sheep. Despite this industrial growth Minchinhampton was always eclipsed by nearby Stroud and remains with the character of a large well serviced village. The parish has little surface drainage, that which there is heads for the nearby River Frome to reach the Severn and thence the Bristol Channel. Minchinhampton is sited at 190 metres above the sea at the western end of a spur of the Cotswold but some 140 metres above the Frome just over a mile away. Minchinhampton parish was one of the larger in the area, it covered almost 4,900 acres and supported a population of just over 5,000 parishioners. In Domesday times (and up to the Dissolution of Henry VIII) MInchinhampton was held by the Abbey of Caen, it could offer 29 ploughs, small meadows & woodland plus an impressive 8 mills the source of the town's industrial strength in later years. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 25th March 1754 - 26th December 1803 | Gloucestershire Archives - Reference
- P217/IN/1/9 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Short periods of poor handwriting and fading lead to the
possibility of a few misreads The rather odd sequence of entries is because they are entered to the register on date of first Banns reading, this differs markedly from the order in which Marriages occurred. |
2 | 17th October 1803 - 3rd September 1804 | Gloucestershire Archives - Reference - P217/IN/1/10 | Plain, unruled book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 8th June 1804 - 31st December 1812 | Gloucestershire Archives - Reference - P217/IN/1/11 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 31st January 1813 - 25th December 1835 | Gloucestershire Archives - Reference - P217/IN/1/14 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 1st January 1836 - 19th June 1837 | Gloucestershire Archives - Reference - P217/IN/1/15 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Woodchester
St Mary
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Rodborough
St Mary Magdalene
Stroud St Lawrence Bisley All Saints |
Bisley
All Saints
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Woodchester
St Mary
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Sapperton St
Kenelm
Avening Holy Cross (detached) |
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Nailsworth
All Saints
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Avening Holy
Cross
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Avening
Holy Cross (detached)
Cherington St Nicholas |
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