Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire Family History Guide
Waltham St Lawrence is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1614
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WALTHAM-ST. LAWRENCE, a parish, with a village, in Cookham district, Berks; 2¾ miles ENE of Twyford r. station. It has a post-office under Twyford, and a fair on 11 Aug. Acres, 3,468. Real property, £5,710. Pop., 848. Houses, 165. The property is much subdivided. A Roman camp is at Castle-Acre; and Roman coins, urns, and other relics have there been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £211. Patron, Lord Braybrooke. The church was restored in 1847. A chapel of ease is at Scurlock. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, an endowed school with £35 a year, and charities £35.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Cookham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Reading
- Poor Law Union: Cookham
- Hundred: Wargrave
- Province: Canterbury