Place:Westonbirt with Lasborough, Gloucestershire, England

Westonbirt and Lasborough is a parish covering the two villages of Westonbirt and Lasborough in eastern Gloucestershire, England. The two parishes were originally considered as the parish of Westonbirt which included the village of Lasborough, but in 1935 they were formally united and the parish area was expanded by absorbing 346 acres of Tetbury parish and 21 acres of Shipton Moyne. (Source:Victoria County History of Gloucestershire on Westonbirt and Lasborough in British History Online). For a view of the area before the change in boundaries see the Ordnance Survey map of the area circa 1900 with the parish boundaries marked.

The two villages are each covered separately in WeRelate.

Registration Districts

Tetbury (1837 - 1937) (as Westonbirt and Lasborough until 1935)
Cirencester (1937 - 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:

• The Victoria History of Gloucestershire chapter on Westonbirt with Lasborough, available online on 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