Virginia Water, Surrey Family History Guide
Virginia Water is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Surrey, created in 1839 from Egham Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Egham Christ Church
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1838
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1839
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Sunningdale
- Egham
- Thorpe
- Old Windsor Berkshire
- Sunningdale Berkshire
- Botleys and Lyne
- Long Cross
- Chobham
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
VIRGINIA-WATER, a chapelry in Egham parish, Surrey; on the London, Wokingham, and Reading railway, 4 miles WSW of Staines. It was constituted in 1839; and it has a post-office under Staines, a r. station, and an inn. Pop., 877. Houses, 182.
Virginia-Water lake here lies in the S of Windsor forest; is the largest artificial sheet of water in England; was formed at great expense, in marshy grounds, for William, Duke of Cumberland, after 1746; sends off its superfluence by a stream making a cascade; and has a Chinese fishing temple, a hermitage, a turretted triangular building called the Belvidere, and a miniature frigate.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported. Patrons, Three Trustees. The church is modern.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992
Maps
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Administration
- County: Surrey
- Civil Registration District: Windsor
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Stoke
- Poor Law Union: Windsor
- Hundred: Godley
- Province: Canterbury