Ampney St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Alternative names: Easington or Eastington
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin: 1599
Nonconformists include:
Parishes adjacent to Ampney St Peter
- Ampney Crucis
- Ampney St Mary
- Driffield
- Harnhill
- Poulton
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
AMPNEY-ST. PETER, or Easington, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; contiguous to Ampney St. Mary, 4½ miles E of Cirencester r. station. Post town, Cirencester. Acres, 533. Real property, £1,291. Pop., 188. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £60. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Amphney (St. Peter), or Eastington 2½ miles E. Cirencester. P. 196
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
Ampney (St. Peter), or Easington, a parish in the same union and hundred as Ampney St. Mary, situated to the south of Ampney St. Mary. Living, a perpetual curacy, formerly in the archd. of Gloucester, now in that of Bristol, and in the dio. of Gloucester und Bristol; rated at £4 3s. 4d., in the parliamentary returns at £25; endowed with £1,600 royal bounty; gross income £60. There is a small daily school here. Pop., in 1801, 162; in 1831, 180 Houses 43. Acres 860. A. P. £948. Poor rates, in 1837, £60.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Ampney, St. Peter, co. Gloucester.
P.T. Cirencester (89) 4½ m. S b E. Pop. 177.
A parish in the hundred of Crowthorne and Minety; living, a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester; certified value 4l. 3s. 4d.; ann. val. P. R. 25l.; patron, the Bishop of Gloucester.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.
Poll Books
Ampney St Peter Poll Book 1834 – Google Books
Directories
Ampney Saint Peter, Easington or Eastington Morris Gloucestershire Directory 1876
Ampney St. Peter Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Cirencester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Cirencester
- Poor Law Union: Cirencester
- Hundred: Crowthorne and Minety
- Province: Canterbury