Blewbury Berkshire Family History Guide
Blewbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Upton and Aston Upthorpe are chapelries of Blewbury.
Other places in the parish include: Nottingham Fee.
Alternative names: Blewberry
Parish church: St Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1588
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1591
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BLEWBERRY, a village in Wantage district, and a parish in Wantage and Wallingford districts, Berks. The village stands near the Ridgeway and Icknield-street; 2½ miles WSW of Wallingford Road r. station, and 4 NE by N of East Ilsley; and it has a post office under Wallingford, and a fair on the Thursday after 29 Sept. Pop., 639. Houses, 152.
The parish includes also the hamlet of Upton with Nottingham-Fee liberty, and the liberty of Aston-Upthorpe. Acres, 6,814. Real property, £8,071. Pop., 1,114. Houses, 251. The property is divided among a few. The ancient manor-house was engirt by moat and earthen rampart. Blewberry Hill has barrows and an ancient camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; and till 1866 was united with Upton and Aston-Upthorpe. Value, £161. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school for 30 boys and 30 girls, and a large amount of charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Blewberry, 4 miles S. W. Wallingford. P. 1096.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wantage
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – Salisbury, Post-1845 – Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Wantage
- Hundred: Moreton; Reading
- Province: Canterbury