Easthampstead, Berkshire Family History Guide

Easthampstead is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire

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Parish registers: 1558
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist and Society of Friends/Quaker.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EASTHAMPSTEAD, a village, a parish, and a district in Berks.

The village stands adjacent to the London, Wokingham, and Reading railway, near Bracknell station, 3¾ miles E by S of Wokingham; and is rural and pretty.

The parish contains also the village of Bracknell, which has a head post office, designated Bracknell, Berkshire. Acres, 5,186. Real property, £4,579. Pop., 789. Houses, 133. The property is divided among a few.

Easthampstead Park was a hunting seat of Richard II. and some other kings; was the residence of Catherine of Arragon, when Henry VIII. proposed to her a divorce; was a residence of James I. in 1622 and 1628: and is now the property of the Marquis of Downshire. Easthampstead Plains are part of Bagshot Heath.

An irregular ancient fortiflcation, on an eminence with a double ditch, 1 mile S of Easthampstead Park, is known as Cæsar’s Camp; and traces of a Roman road, going southward thence across Bagshot Heath, are known as the Devil’s Highway.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £588. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1867; and is in the first pointed style, with mixture of Byzantine. A very large yew-tree is in the churchyard.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £74.

The district comprehends the sub-district of Sandhurst, conterminate with Sandhurst parish; and the sub-district of Bracknell, containing the parishes of Easthampstead, Binfield, Warfield, and Winkfield-with-Ascot. Acres, 25,176. Poor-rates, in 1862, £4,429. Pop. in 1851, 6,352; in 1861, 7,436. Houses, 1,375.

Marriages in 1860, 42; births, 199, of which 10 were illegitimate; deaths, 109, of which 37 were at ages under 5 years, and 3 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 348; births, 1,677; deaths, 1,109.

The places of worship in 1851 were 8 of the Church of England, with 2,630 sittings; 1 of Independents, with 150 s.; and 2 of Primitive Methodists, with 172 s.

The schools were 5 public day schools, with 308 scholars; 14 private day schools, with 268 s.; and 4 Sunday schools, with 256 s.

The workhouse is in East-hampstead.

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

Easthampstead, a parish in the hund. of Ripplesmere, union of Easthampstead, county of Berks; 3½ miles east by south of Workington. All tithes, the property of the clerical rector, were commuted in 1821.

Here are a daily and a day and Sunday school. Charities, about £46 per annum; besides 8 cottages now taken possession of by the poor-law commissioners. Poor rates, in 1838, £264 11s.

A work-house has been erected here for the union of Easthampstead. The Easthampstead poor-law union comprehends 5 parishes, embracing an area of 43 square miles; with a population returned, in 1831, at 6,980. The average annual expenditure on the poor of this district, during the three years preceding the formation of the union, was £2,700. Expenditure in 1838, £2,099; in 1839, £2,305 18s.

Acres 5,300. Houses 125. A.P. £2,662. Pop., in 1801. 566; in 1831, 647.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

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County: Berkshire
Civil Registration District: Easthampstead
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
Rural Deanery: Reading
Poor Law Union: Easthampstead
Hundred: Ripplesmere
Province: Canterbury

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