Place:Barrington, Gloucestershire, England

Barrington was created in 1935 as the result of a merger of three parishes: Great Barrington, Little Barrington, and a small part of Eastleach Turville.

The present parish of Barrington has been in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England since 1974. According to the 2001 UK census it had a population of 209. To the east the parish borders Oxfordshire.

Registration Districts

Stow-on-the-Wold (1935 - 1937)
Cirencester (1937 - 1974)
Cheltenham (1974 - 2006)
Gloucestershire (2006 - )

Research Tips

• Gloucestershire Archives in Gloucester is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for this part of Gloucestershire are stored.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

• Article on Great and Little Barrington from A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6/Slaughter hundred in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online
• GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
• A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Respect the copyright on this material.
• The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
• A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county