Contiguous Parishes
Alderley - Hawkesbury - Wickwar - Charfield - Wotton-under-Edge - North Nibley (all in Gloucestershire)
Websites of Interest
GenUKI - For information relating to Wiltshire and Kingswood.
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - The Wiltshire County Archives for all historical documents and the place to obtain original copies.
Wiltshire Community History - Historical information for parishes within the Wiltshire County jurisdiction.
The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Parish Registers held at Gloucester Record Office
Parish History
Kingswood was transferred from Wiltshire to Gloucestershire jurisdiction in 1844
Location
Near Wootton under Edge, Gloucestershire
National Gazetteer 1868
KINGSWOOD, a parish and township in the hundred of Chippenham, county Gloucester, 1 mile S.W. of Wootton-under-Edge, its post town, and 2 miles from the Charfield station, on the Bristol and Birmingham railway. It was once forest, and has the gatehouse and other remains of a Cistercian priory, founded in 1139 by Roger Berkeley, as a cell to Tyntern Abbey. The site was given by Queen Elizabeth to the Thynnes. Previous to 1844 it formed part of the county of Wilts, but is now annexed to Gloucester. The village is considerable, and many of the inhabitants in the cloth trade. There are woollen cloth factories at Kingswood Mills, Nind Mills, and Park Mills, also a brewery.
The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £99, in the patronage of the inhabitants. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient stone structure with one bell. It contains an ancient font, and tombs of the Berkeley family. There are schools for boys and infants. The Wesleyans and Independents have chapels. R. H. Blagden Hale, Esq., is lord of the manor.
Buildings and Land
Railway
Crime and Legal Matters
Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879 Transportation of Prisoners 1827
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
Elections, Polls and Voters Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818
Parish Notables
Johnny Ball - Mathematician and TV Presenter born 23 May 1938
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
War, Conflict and Military Matters
Muster Roll 1539 Why the Poppy
