Longworth, Berkshire Family History Guide

Longworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Charney Bassett is a chapelry of Longworth.

Other places in the parish include: Draycot Moor.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LONGWORTH, a village in Faringdon district, and a parish partly also in Abingdon district, Berks.

The village stands 1 mile S of the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxford, 6 N by W of Wantage-Road r. station, and 7 ENE of Faringdon; and has a post office, under Faringdon.

The parish contains also the chapelry of Charney, and the hamlet of Draycot-Moor. Acres, 4,415. Real property, £3,978. Pop., 1,131. Houses, 255.

The manor belonged once to Sir H. Marten, the father of the regicide; and belongs now to Sidney Pusey, Esq. A Roman camp, and the reputed site of a palace of Canute, are at Cherbury.

The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Charney, in the diocese of Oxford. Valne, £1,000. Patron, Jesus College, Oxford. The church is Saxon, in tolerable condition,.roughcast and whitened; contains several old brasses; and stands on an eminence, commanding a fine view over the rich outspread basin of the Isis.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £45. Bishop Fell was a native, and his father was rector.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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England, Oxfordshire, Longworth

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Longworth cemetery tombstone inscriptions
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Longworth, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Church history ( 1 )
The church in the Hop Garden : a chatty account of the Longworth-Coate Baptist Meeting, Berks and Oxfordshire (ante 1481-1935) and its ministers
Author: Stanley, John

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Church records ( 8 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Charney, 1607-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Charney (Berkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Longworth, 1607-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Longworth (Berkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Charney (Berkshire)

Frilford & Longworth Mission Chapel baptisms, 1845-1955
Author: Frilford and Longworth Mission Chapel (Berkshire); Oxfordshire Family History Society

Longworth, Berks., parish registers, 1559-1974
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Longworth (Berkshire); Oxfordshire Family History Society; Blizzard, Elisabeth

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : Abingdon Registration District
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : Faringdon Registration District
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

Parish registers for Charney, 1641-1979
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Charney (Berkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Charney (Berkshire)

Parish registers for Longworth, 1559-1978
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Longworth (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Charney Bassett, Berks., Eng

Computer printout of Longworth, Berks., Eng

England, Berkshire, Longworth – History ( 1 )
Longworth through the centuries
Author: Howse, Jasmine S.

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Land and property ( 1 )
Belmont Abbey papers, 18th and 19th century

England, Berkshire, Longworth – Taxation ( 1 )
Rate valuations, 1838-1843
Author: Longworth (Berkshire)

Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Faringdon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Abingdon
  • Poor Law Union: Faringdon
  • Hundred: Ganfield; Ock
  • Province: Canterbury