Datchet, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

Datchet is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1559
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DATCHET, a parish in Eton district, Bucks; on the river Thames and on the Windsor branch of the South Western railway, 2 miles E of Windsor. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Windsor. Acres, 1,630. Real property, £6,086. Pop., 982. Houses, 182. The property is much subdivided.

Two bridges, called the Victoria and the Albert, the former a neat iron structure, give communication across the Thames. Datchet-mead was the scene of Falstaff’s punishment in the “Merry Wives of Windsor.” A fishing-house of Sir H. Wotton, yearly visited by Isaak Walton, stood on the Thames at Datchet; and was succeeded by a summer-house of the painter Verrio. Anglers, from old times till the present, have loved to fish here; and Pope says, respecting Charles II.,

Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand,
The pliant rod now trembling in his hand;
And-see, he now doth up from Datchet come,
Laden with spoils of slaughter’d gudgeons home.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £145. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church was rebuilt in 1860, and is in the decorated style.

There are a Baptist chapel, a library and reading room , a national school, and charities £119.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

DATCHET (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Eton, hundred of Stoke, county of Buckingham, 2 miles (E. S. E.) from Eton; containing 922 inhabitants.

The parish is separated from that of Windsor by the river Thames, over which is a handsome bridge, and comprises about 1100 acres; the soil is a loam of great fertility. The surface is generally flat, but the surrounding scenery is diversified, and abounds with features of interest; there are several elegant residences, and the village is pleasing.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £11; net income, £125; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Windsor.

There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. Two charity schools are supported; and a fund of £39 per annum, the proceeds of bequests at different times, is distributed among the poor. Robert Barker, in 1644, left property called the Bridge Estate, now producing £95 per annum, for the erection and maintenance of a bridge across the Hollow-way.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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Administration

County: Buckinghamshire
Civil Registration District: Eton
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
Diocese: Pre-1845 – Lincoln, Post-1844 – Oxford
Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Burnham
Poor Law Union: Eton
Hundred: Stoke
Province: Canterbury