West Littleton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

West Littleton is a chapelry of Tormarton Ancient Parish in Gloucestershire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: For records see Tormarton

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LITTLETON (WEST), a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; among the Cotswolds, adjacent to Wilts, 2 miles NW of Marshfield, and 6 E of Mangotsfield r. station. Post town, Marshfield, under Chippenham.

Acres, 1,009. Rated property, £1,242. Pop., 120. Houses, 28. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duke of Beaufort.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Tormarton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is ancient; was repaired and enlarged in 1855; and has a curious bell-turret, or small tower, surmounted by a spire.

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

Littleton (West), 4 m. S.E. Chipping Sodbury. P. 158

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Littleton, co. Gloucester.

P. T. Chipping Sodbury (108) 4½ m. SE b E. Pop. 100.

A parish in the lower division of the hundred of Grumbald’s Ash; living, a curacy subordinate to the rectory of Tormarton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, not in charge; church ded. to St. Mary; patronage with Tormarton rectory.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. II; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Gloucestershire, West Littleton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for West Littleton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Gloucestershire, West Littleton – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Tormarton, 1599-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tormarton (Gloucestershire); Church of England. Parish Church of West Littleton (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Tomarton with West Littleton, St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Bishop’s transcripts, 1600-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tormarton (Gloucestershire); Church of England. Parish Church of West Littleton (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Tormarton, St. Mary Magdalen’s Church, parish registers, 1679-1907
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tormarton (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

Marriages at Tormarton and West Littleton Chaple, 1600-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tormarton (Gloucestershire); Church of England. Parish Church of Acton-Turville (Gloucestershire); Church of England. Parish Church of West Littleton (Gloucestershire)

Parish registers for Tormarton, 1679-1971
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tormarton (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, West Littleton – Church records – Indexes ( 6 )
Computer printout of Tormarton with West Littleton and Acton Turville, Gloucs., Eng

Computer printout of Tormarton with West Littleton, Gloucs., Eng

Computer printout of West Littleton, Gloucs., Eng

Parish register printouts of Tormarton with West Littleton, Gloucester, England ; christenings, 1679-1882
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Tormarton with West Littleton, Gloucester, England ; marriages, 1828-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of West Littleton, Gloucester, England ; marriages, 1838-1878
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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: Grumbald’s Ash
  • Province: Canterbury