Rendcombe Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Rendcombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Parish Church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin: 1566
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Rendcombe, a parish, with a village, in Cirencester district, Gloucester; on the river Churn, 5 miles N of Cirencester r. station. Post-town, Cirencester. Acres, 2, 532. Real property, £3, 288. Pop., 246. Houses, 45. The manor, with R. Park and most of the land, belonged once to the Clares, passed to the Audleys, the Nevilles, and others; and belongs now to Sir Francis Goldsmid, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £373. Patron, the Rev. J. Pitt. The church is later English and good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Rendcombe, a parish in Rapsgate hund., union of Cirencester, county of Gloucester; 5¾ miles north by west of Cirencester. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester, now in the dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £13 6s. 8d.; gross income £381. Patron, in 1835, the Rev. C. Pitt. Here is a daily school. Acres 2,650. Houses 37. A.P. £2,050. Pop., in 1801, 147; in 1831, 218. Poor rates, in 1838, £193 7s.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
Rendcombe (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Cirencester, hundred of Rapsgate, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 5½ miles (N.) from Cirencester; containing 248 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 6. 8., and in the gift of the incumbent, the Rev. Joseph Pitt: the tithes have been commuted for £440, and the glebe comprises 24 acres. Sir J. Wright Guise, Bart., has an elegant mansion and extensive park in the parish.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Rendcomb Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863
Rendcomb is a parish and village, 5 miles north from Cirencester railway station, 8 south-west from Northleach, and 10 south-east from Cheltenham, in Rapsgate hundred, Cirencester union, electoral division, county court district and rural deanery, Bristol archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric.
The church of St. Peter is an old stone building in the Perpendicular style; it has nave, chancel, and tower with 6 bells. The living is a rectory, value £360 yearly, with residence and 24 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Rev. Joseph Pitt, M.A., who is also the incumbent.
There is a Sunday school for poor children.
The population in 1861 was 240; the acreage is 2,499: rateable value, £2,838.
The soil is loamy; the subsoil is freestone.
Rendcomb Park is the seat of Gen. Sir John Wright Guise, Bart., K.C.B., who is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
Shawswell, Green Meadows, Lodge Farm, and Marsden are farms.
Guise Gen. Sir John Wright, bart. K.C.B. Rendcomb park
Larke Richard Denny, esq
Pitt Rev. Joseph, M.A. [rector]
COMMERCIAL.
Brain Thomas, farmer, Shawswell farm
Budd Richard James, farmer
Burrows John, shoemaker
Burrows James, farmer, Lodge & Park farms
Kirby Ann (Mrs.), butcher, baker & shopkeeper
Larke Richard Denny, surgeon
Price Stephen, carpenter
Southam Wm. farmer, Marsden farm
Tarrant Timothy, blacksmith
Tovey William & Robert, farmers, Green meadows
Wickenden William, miller
Letters received through Cirencester at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. Cirencester is the nearest money order office.
Carriers pass through several times weekly between Cirencester & Cheltenham.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Cirencester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Cirencester
- Poor Law Union: Cirencester
- Hundred: Rapsgate
- Province: Canterbury