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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"COW HONEYBOURNE, a parish and township in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 5 miles E. of Evesham, and 4 from Campden. It is a station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton line. Weston Subedge is its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy not in charge, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, and in the patronage of the Rev. R. Poole. The church has fallen into decay. Portions of it are used as dwellings; consequently, the inhabitants of the parish attend the church at Church Honeybourne. There are some small charities."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Honeybourne, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives; with the exeception of Bishops Transcripts, which (if they exist) should be found at Worcestershire Record Office.
- The transcription of the section for Cow Honeybourne from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Honeybourne to another place.
- The present parish of Honeybourne is an amalgamation of two former parishes, Cow Honeybourne, which was in Gloucestershire until 1931, and Church Honeybourne. The latter has always been in Worcestershire, apart from briefly, between 1974 and 1998 when Worcester and Hereford were merged, when it was in the county of Hereford & Worcester. The composite parish of Honeybourne is at present in Worcestershire, but as will be noted from the above section on Archives and Libraries the parish records are to be found at the Gloucestershire Archives Office.
The merger was instigated because the School and Village Hall for both wards was in Cow Honeybourne. The Church and churchyard (now closed), and the cemetery were in Church Honeybourne. This gave a balanced payment of rates for both wards.
This most useful information has been very kindly supplied by Norman Overington, who was the Parish Clerk for Cow Honeybourne when the two Honeybournes were amalgamated in 1953.
See also Icomb.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP109436 (Lat/Lon: 52.090922, -1.842483), Honeybourne which are provided by:
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