Chalcombe, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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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

Chalcombe Parish Registers

These records include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Chalcombe, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1706-1812

Chalcombe, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1566-1812

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

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