Place:Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

Little Rissington is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. Since 1974 it has been situated in the Cotswold District. Great Rissington and Wyck Rissington are neighbouring villages.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Little Rissington from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"RISSINGTON (Little), a parish, with a village, in Stow-on-the-Wold [registration] district, Gloucester[shire]; 2 miles S E of Bourton-on-the-Water [railway] station. Post-town: Burford, under Faringdon. Acres: 1,300. Real property: £2,244. Population: 290. Houses: 60. The manor, with a recent Tudor mansion, belongs to J. Bennett, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £430. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church is variously Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular; and was restored in 1850 and 1865. There is an endowed national school."

Registration Districts

Stow on the Wold Registration District (1837 - 1937)
North Cotswold Registration District (1937 - 2006)
Gloucestershire Registration District (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:

• Little Rissington 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