Cholesbury Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Cholesbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire, created in 1756 from a chapelry in Drayton Beauchamp Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Choulsbury
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1583
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHOULESBURY, or Cholesbury, a parish in Aylesbury district, Bucks; on the verge of the county, 3 miles S of Tring, and 3¾ SW of Tring r. station. It has a post-office under Tring. Acres, 176. Real property, £438. Pop., 105. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. An ancient moated camp here, called Bury-Banks, is about a mile in circuit. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £41. Patrons, Trustees. The church stands within the camp, and is good. Charities, £122.
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
Choulsbury, 3 miles E. Wendover. P. 124.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Registers
Marriages at Cholesbury 1576 to 1812
Parish Records
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Buckinghamshire Historical Directories
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Aylesbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Post-1836 – Oxford, Pre-1837 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Mursley
- Poor Law Union: Aylesbury
- Hundred: Cottesloe
- Province: Canterbury