West Drayton Middlesex Family History Guide
West Drayton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Middlesex.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1568
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DRAYTON (West), a parish in Uxbridge district, Middlesex; on the river Colne, the Grand Junction canal, and the Great Western railway, at the boundary with Bucks, 3 miles S of Uxbridge. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Uxbridge. Acres, 850. Real property, £4,844. Pop., 951. Houses, 179.
The manor belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls; was given by Henry VIII. to the Pagets; and passed to the De Burghs. Much of the land is disposed in market and fruit gardens.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; and, till 1868, was annexed to Harmondsworth. Value and patron, not reported. The church is a Norman structure, with an embattled tower; and has an octagonal figured font, and some monuments. There are a national school, and charities £18.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Uxbridge
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Uxbridge
- Hundred: Elthorne
- Province: Canterbury