Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Location
Winchcombe is an ancient parish located in the north east of the county of
Gloucestershire. The market town of the same name lies in the south of the parish. Historically it is sometimes referred to as Winchcomb and also as Winchcomb(e) with Gretton.
It is approximately eight miles north east of
Cheltenham and
Evesham in Worcestershire is about ten miles to the north. The historic county town of
Gloucester is about fifteen miles to the south west.
Parish Church
The Parish (CofE) Church is St Peter, Winchcombe, which can be found
here on Google Street View
Parish Registers
The surviving parish registers are held at the Gloucestershire Archives where they are catologued with reference P368/1/IN/1. See
Gloucesterhsire Archives Catalogue Search and
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/10873/parish-register-guide-w-x-y-z-final.pdf
Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes
To the east of Winchcombe lies
Toddington,
Didbrook and
Guiting Power with Farmcote. To the south is
Sudeley Manor and
Charlton Abbots, with
Bishop's Cleve and the extra-parochial place of Prescott both to the south-west. To the west is
Stanley Pontlarge, a chapelry of Toddington and
Alderton. To the north-west is
Beckford and and finally
Dumbleton is to the north.
Gleanings from
