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:

Adjacent Parishes

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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Online Records (Free)

England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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