Chalcombe, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

Chalcombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names: Chacombe

Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1566
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• South Banbury
• Banbury
• Thenford
• Wardington, Oxfordshire
• Middleton Cheney
• Thorpe Mandeville
• Cropredy, Oxfordshire

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHALCOMBE, or Chacombe, a parish in the district of Banbury and county of Northampton; adjacent to the river Cherwell, near the Oxford and Rugby and the Buckinghamshire railways, 3¾ miles NE of Banbury.

It has a post office under Banbury. Acres, 1,694. Real property, £4,213. Pop., 468. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided. A number of the inhabitants are stocking-makers. A priory was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Hugh de Chacombe; and given, at the dissolution, to the Foxes.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250. Patron, W. Martin, Esq. The church is chiefly decorated English; has a porch and a tower; and contains a fine Norman font and a brass of 1500.

There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CHALCOMBE, or Chacombe (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Banbury, hundred of King’s Sutton, S. division of the county of Northampton, 3¾ miles (N. E. by E.) from Banbury; containing 488 inhabitants.

This parish, which is bounded on the north and west by a portion of Oxfordshire, comprises 1641a. 1r. 8p.; the arable lands are rich, the dairy farms well managed, and butter is sent in considerable quantities to the London market.

The manufacture of lace and silk-stockings, and the weaving of shag, are carried on; but the trade is gradually declining. Freestone of tolerable quality is found, and the quarries have furnished materials for most of the houses in the parish.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7. 17.; patron, C. Wykeham Martin, Esq.: impropriators, the landowners. The great tithes have been commuted for £199. 16., and the vicarial for £240; the glebe comprises 7¼ acres, with a house, repaired in 1843. The church is a plain structure in the decorated English style, with a square tower.

There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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Administration

• County: Northamptonshire
• Civil Registration District: Banbury
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
• Diocese: Peterborough
• Rural Deanery: Brackley
• Poor Law Union: Banbury
• Hundred: King’s Sutton
• Province: Canterbury