Crawley, Hampshire

Location

Crawley is towards the west of the county of Hampshire. The village is in the centre of the parish of the same name. It is about six miles north west of Winchester and twelve miles south east of Andover. For additional information please see A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 at British History Online

Parish Church

The Parish (CofE) Church is St Mary, Crawley, which can be found here on Google Street View.

Parish Registers

"A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3" (pub 1908) suggest just a single early register exists

The oldest parish register gives mixed entries from 1649 to 1812.

The registers are held at the Hampshire Archive http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/hals-collections/hals-parish-registers.htm.

Transcriptions of the Parish Registers have been generously made available on-line from http://www.downs-benefice.hampshire.org.uk/benefice/stmary.htm

Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes

To the north east Crawley is bounded by Wonston & Worthy Headbourne and to the east by Littleton. Sparsholt and Ashley are to the south with Little Somborne to the west. Leckford, Chilbolton and Barton Stacey are to the north west.

Gleanings from

• Crawley Census Returns
  • 1851 Census Crawley