Wyrardisbury, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Wyrardisbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire. Langley Marish is a chapelry of Wyrardisbury.
Alternative names: Wraysbury
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1734
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WYRARDISBURY, or Wraysbury, a parish in Eton district, Bucks; on the river Thames, and on the Staines and Windsor railway, 2½ miles NW of Staines. It has a post-office under Staines, and a r. station. Acres, 1,656. Real property, £4,989. Pop., 735. Houses, 145.
Remmenham Hall is the seat of B. H. Gyll, Esq. Magna Charta Island, Wraysbury house, and Ankerwyke house also are chief residences. A hunting lodge of King John was here; and a portion of it still stands, and is now a farmhouse. A Benedictine nunnery was founded on the Ankerwyke estate in the time of Henry II., and has left some remains.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £165. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church was recently restored and enlarged.
There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £74.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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