Hasfield Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Hasfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish church: Originally St. Peter now St. Mary

Parish registers begin: 1559

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Hasfield, a village and a parish, in Tewkesbury district, Gloucester. The village stands near the river Severn and the boundary with Worcester, 6 miles N of Gloucester r. station; and has a post office pillar box under Gloucester.

The parish comprises 1,460 acres. Real property, £3, 607. Pop., 299. Houses, 70. The manor belonged, in the Conqueror’s time, to the Pauncefoot family; and, with Hasfield Court, belongs now to Thomas Fulljames, Esq.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £378. Patron, the Rev. J. Sevier. The church is ancient, but good; consists of nave, chancel, and N aisle, with porch and tower; and contains a very ancient monument of the Pauncefoots, an ancient oak chest, and memorials of the Atwoods and the Fulljameses.

There are a national school, and charities £21.

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

Hasfield, 7 miles E. Newent. P. 304

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HASFIELD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tewkesbury, Lower division of the hundred of Westminster, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 6 miles (N.) from Gloucester; containing 304 inhabitants, and comprising by measurement 1400 acres.

Limestone of good quality is quarried for building and for the roads: facility of conveyance is afforded by the river Severn, which skirts the parish on the south-east, and is navigable for small craft.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 6. 8.; net income, £378; patron and incumbent, the Rev. J. F. Sevier. The tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1795; the land comprises 174 acres, and there is a rectory-house, handsomely rebuilt in the Tudor style, by the present incumbent. The church is in the later English style, with a square embattled tower.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848