Broad Blunsdon
"BROAD BLUNSDON, a chapelry in the parish of Highworth, hundred of Highworth, Cricklade, and Staple, in the county of Wilts, 2 miles to the W. of Highworth. Bury Blunsdon is a tything in this chapelry The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Highworth, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The Roman road to Cirencester passes at the foot of Blunsdon Castle Hill, on which is an extensive circular encampment."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Cemeteries
- St Leonard, Churchway, Church of England
Church Records
- St Leonard, Churchway, Church of England
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Common to all parishes is a Key to Abbreviations and a description of Church Records and Indexes for Wiltshire, including a complete Marriage Index for the county.
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Broad Blunsdon, St Leonard:
- WSRO registers: Chr , Mar , Bur
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1798-1837
Gazetteers
- A transcription of the section for Broad Blunsdon from
the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for Broad Blunsdon from
A Vision of Britain through time.
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