Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

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Great Horwood is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Singleborough.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1600
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1591

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HORWOOD (GREAT), a village and a parish in Winslow district, Bucks. The village stands 2 miles N by E of Winslow r. station, and 2½ NE by N of Winslow; has a post-office under Winslow; and was once a market-town.

The parish includes also the hamlet of Singleborough, and comprises 3, 109 acres. Real property, £5, 640. Pop., 846. Houses, 197. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to New College, Oxford.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £445. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is partly fine decorted English, party perpendicnlar; is in good condition; has a tower; and contains three piscinæ, a triple sedilia, a brass of 1487, and two monuments to the Barker family.

There are an Independent chapel, a handsome national school, built in 1861, and charities £13 and 27 acres of land.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Buckinghamshire, Great Horwood – Church records ( 3 )
Births and baptisms, 1822-1837
Author: Independent Church (Great Harwood)

Bishop’s transcripts for Great Horwood, 1591-1839
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Horwood (Buckinghamshire)

Parish registers for Great Horwood, 1600-1892
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Horwood (Buckinghamshire)

England, Buckinghamshire, Great Horwood – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Great Horwood, Bucks., Eng

Computer printout of Great Horwood, Independent, Bucks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Great Horwood, Buckingham, England (Independent Church) ; christenings, 1822-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Great Horwood, Buckingham, England ; marriages, 1754-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

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