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Maiseyhampton

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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"MEYSEY HAMPTON, (or Maiseyhampton), a parish in the hundred of Crowthorne, county Gloucester, 6 miles E. of Cirencester, and 2 W. of Fairford, its post town. The village is small, and chiefly agricultural. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £604, in the patronage of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice, with a tower containing five bells. The Baptists have a chapel, and there are church and British schools. The charities produce about £9 per annum. John Mott, Esq., is lord of the manor. [Recorded as HAMPTON MEYSEY in Gazetteer -RL 2003]"

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Archives & Libraries

  • Original source material relating to Maiseyhampton (Meysey Hampton), and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

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Historical Geography

  • "Alias Meysey Hampton. Marston Maisey (Wilts.) was formerly a tithing and chapelry of this parish, and there are some documents relating to Marston Maisey with the parish records."
    (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

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