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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"ROCKHAMPTON, a parish in the lower division of Langley hundred, county Gloucester, 2 miles N.E. of Thornbury, its post town, and 6 from the Berkeley Road station on the Birmingham and Bristol railway. The village, which is of small extent, is wholly agricultural. The surface is hilly, and where flat subject to inundation by the river Severn. The soil is marl, sand, and clay, and about 200 acres are boggy. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £283, and there are 21 acres of glebe. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £249. The church, dedicated to St. Oswald, is an ancient stone structure with a tower containing one bell. The parochial charities produce about £13 per annum. Major Peach is lord of the manor."
[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 Rockhampton, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
- Scribes Alcove - A most useful site now unavailable. Checking for alternatives a site to enable searches of baptism, marriage and burial indexes from six Gloucestershire parishes: Berkeley, Thornbury, Oldbury-upon-Severn, Hill, Stone & Rockhampton.
The period covered for St Oswald's Church is 1700-1900C; 1700-1878M (except 1859-1862); 1700-1900B.
- The transcription of the section for Rockhampton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Rockhampton to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST652933 (Lat/Lon: 51.637172, -2.504368), Rockhampton which are provided by:
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- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
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- Abstracts of Rockhampton, Thornbury & Oldbury on Severn WILLS 1541 - 1567, 1568 - 1576 and 1577 - 1599, transcribed by Leslie Mahler.