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Kemble Photo Gallery

Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)

Cirencester (GLS) – Coates (GLS) – Crudwell – Oaksey – Poole Keynes (now GLS) – Rodmartin (GLS) – Siddington (GLS) – Somerford Keynes (now GLS)

Websites of Interest

The Parish Church of All Saints

All Saints is an ancient structure with a tower crowned by a lofty steeple which was struck by lightning in July 1834.  The chancel was rebuilt in 1840 when the church was greatly improved.  The chantry contains an antique triple window.  There are several monuments among which is that of a Knight Templar.

All Saints Gallery          All Saints Interior Gallery          All Saints Churchyard Gallery

Churchyard Memorial Inscriptions          List of Vicars          All Saints History          Tower Bells

Parish Register Transcripts

Extracts from the Parish Register 1679-1812

Marriages

1600-1849

Burials

1679-1699          1700-1724

Parish Registers held at Gloucester Record Office

Baptisms 1679-1950
Marriages 1679-1839
Burials 1679-1915
BT’s held at Bristol Record Office 1838-1859

Parish History

Kemble is 6 miles North West of Malmesbury and 4 miles South West of Cirencester (Gloucestershire), and was transferred to the jurisdiction of Gloucestershire on 1st April 1897. The village includes the tythings of Ewen and Wick.

Civil Registration

1837 – Present Cirencester Registration District

Buildings and Land

Cattle Plague Regulations 1867          Owners of Land 1873

Cotswold Airport

Construction work for RAF Kemble began in 1936, and the first operational unit to arrive at the station in 1938.
The site was renamed Cotswold Airport in 2009, having previously operated as Kemble Airport or Kemble Airfield. It is now used for general flying and carrying out maintenance, storage and dismantling of retired aircraft.

Cotswold Airport Gallery

Maps

Ordnance Survey Map 1816

Railway Station

Railway Station Gallery

Crime and Legal Matters

Prisons and Prisoners

Inmates of Gloucester Gaol 1815-1879

Quarter Sessions

Thomas Earle 1673

Directories

Swindon & District 1928          Taylors 1941

Education

Emigration and Migration

Strays Index

Employment and Business

Game Licences 1834

Miscellaneous Documents

Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship

People and Parish Notables

Census Returns Transcripts

1851          1881

Elections and Polls

Poll of Freeholders 1772          Poll Book 1818          Voters List 1832          Voters Lists Revisions 1843

Family Notices

1800-1849          1850-1899          1900-1949

Sport

Sports News 1900-1949

Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse

Probate

National Probate Index 1858-1966

Parishioners Wills

Admon & Will of Richard Digges Proved 1742

War, Conflict and Military Matters

War Memorial & Military Gallery

Medieval

Muster Roll 1539

War Memorials and Books of Remembrance

Roll of Honour Plaque          Kemble War Memorial

Wiltshire Regiment

Return of the Wiltshire Regiment 1902