Coalpit Heath, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Coalpit Heath is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created in 1845 from Frampton Cotterell Ancient Parish and Westerleigh chapelry.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1845

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COALPIT-HEATH, a hamlet in Westerleigh parish, and a chapelry in Westerleigh and Frampton-Cotterell parishes, Gloucester. The hamlet lies near the Bristol and Gloucester railway, 2 miles SW of Yate r. station, and 3¼ WSW of Chipping-Sodbury; and has a post office under Bristol. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. Pop., 1,828. Houses, 393. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £150. 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].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Gloucestershire, Coalpit Heath – Church records ( 3 )
England, Gloucestershire, Coalpit Heath, St. Saviour’s Church, parish registers, 1845-1975
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Coalpit Heath (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

Parish chest records, 1845-1921
Author: Coalpit-Heath (Gloucester)

Parish registers for Coalpit-Heath, 1845-1975
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Coalpit-Heath (Gloucestershire)

Administration

  • County: Gloucestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Chipping Sodbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
  • Rural Deanery: Hawkesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Chipping Sodbury
  • Hundred: Pucklechurch
  • Province: Canterbury