Beckford, Gloucestershire

Location

Beckford is an ancient parish located in the north east of the county of Gloucestershire. The village of the same name lies in the centre of the parish.

It is approximately ten miles north of Cheltenham and Evesham in Worcestershire is about eight miles to the north east. The historic county town of Gloucester is about seventeen miles to the south west.

Parish Church

The Parish (CofE) Church is St John the Baptist, Beckford, which can be found here on Google Street View

Parish Registers

Since the Parish of Beckford was transfered to Worcestershire in 1931, the surviving parish registers are now held by the Worcestershire Archives Services. See https://gis.worcestershire.gov.uk/website/ParishRegister/ and http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/downloads/file/5146/parish_registers

See also Gloucesterhsire Archives Catalogue Search and https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/10855/parish-register-guide-b-final.pdf

Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes

To the east of Beckford lies Dumbleton, with Alderton, Great Washbourne, Little Washbourne and Alstone, both Gloucestrshire, a detached part of the Worcestershire Parish of Overbury with Alstone, Teddington and Little Washbourne and Oxenton, Gloucestershire to the south. To the west lies Teddington, Worcestershire, a chapelry of the Parish of Overbury with Alstone, Teddington and Little Washbourne and the ancient Parish of Overbury with Aslstone, Teddington and Little Washbourne, Worcestershire . To the north east is Ashton under Hill, a chapelry of Beckford with the Gloucestershire parishes of Hinton on the Green and Aston Somerville beyond.

Gleanings from

• Beckford Census Returns
  • 1851 Census Didbrook Beckford