Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire Family History Guide

Hampstead Norreys is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Wellhouse, Little Hungerford, and Bucklebury Alley.

Alternative names: Hampstead Norris

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1538
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Hampstead (Norris), a parish in the hund. of Faircross, union of Wantage, county ot Berks; 3½ miles south-east by south of East Ilsley, situated at the source of a large branch of the Thames.

Living, a discharged vicarage, formerly in the archd, of Berks and dio. of Salisbury, now in the dio. of Oxford; rated at £9 18s. 11½d.; gross income £401. Patron, in 1835, the Marquess of Downshire.

There are 5 daily schools here. Charities, in 1836, about £16 16s. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £547 15s. Acres 6,280. Houses 232. A.P. £5,807. Pop., in 1801, 855; in 1831, 1,179

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

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Administration

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