Place:Winchcombe Registration District, Gloucestershire, England

For a list of the parishes in the registration district, go to UK BMD Registration Districts in England and Wales and follow the link for the county.

Included parishes in Worcestershire 1837-1934.

A 19th century description

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

"The district contains 21 parishes and 3 parts; and is divided into Guiting and Cleeve sub-districts. Acres: 57,494. Poor rates in 1863: £4,667. Population in 1851: 10,136; in 1861: 10,082. Houses: 2,245. Marriages in 1866: 65; births: 335, of which 23 were illegitimate; deaths: 172, of which 58 were at ages under 5 years, and 9 at ages above 85. Marriages in the 10 years 1851-60: 630; births: 3,027; deaths: 1,843. The places of worship, in 1851, were 26 of the Church of England, with 4,584 sittings; 5 of Baptists, with 655 [sittings]; 3 of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, with 518 [sittings]; and 5 of Wesleyans, with 723 [sittings]. The schools were 16 public day-schools, with 534 scholars; 14 private day-schools, with 172 [scholars]; 32 Sunday schools, with 1,500 [scholars]; and 1 evening school for adults, with 25 [scholars]"