Northleach
 

Northleach Poor Law Union and Workhouse

Northleach Union comprises the following Parishes:

Great and Little Barrington

Court Rolls for Great Barrington manor survive for 1505-6,  7 1563, 8 1567, 9 1569,10 1570,11

1571, 12 and 1624. In 1624 each of the three tithings had still its own constable and tithingman  13  

The only surviving record of Little Barrington manor court is an abstract of a court roll of 1779, defining the bounds of the manor and making orders about animals; 14  the owner of each part of the manor is said to have held a court in the 17th century.  15

Churchwardens' accounts of Little Barrington survive from 1747, and of Great Barrington only from the 19th century, but there are overseers' papers for Great Barrington, including a large number of removal orders, from 1714. Between 1775 and 1803 expenditure on poor relief increased fourfold in Little Barrington and sixfold in Great Barrington.  16  In the next ten years expenditure in Little Barrington fell although the number of people being regularly relieved rose from 12 to 32, while in Great Barrington, where in 1815 there were 37 people regularly and 34 occasionally relieved, expenditure again doubled.  17  

Under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 Great Barrington became part of the Stow-on-the-Wold Poor Law Union, and Little Barrington part of the Northleach Union. Under the Public Health Act of 1872 they thus became parts of the Stow-on-the-Wold and Northleach rural sanitary districts respectively, and from its formation in 1935 the new civil parish of Barrington was in the Northleach Rural District.  18  The parish council met regularly in 1962.

Notes :- 
7          B.M. Add. Roll. 26826.
8          Glos. Colln. R. 66.30.
9          Glos. R.O., D 1375/203.
10         Ibid. D 247.
11         Ibid. D 1375/204
12         Ibid. D 1986.
13         Ibid. D 247.
14         Deeds at Barrington Grove.
15         Atkyns. Glos. 253.
16         Poor Law Abstract, 1803. 182-3.
17         Ibid. 1818, 154-5.
18         Census.

Quoted from the Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, volume 6, page 023, by permission of the General Editor.
Submitted by Alan Longbottom  

Sherborne

Local Government.
The medieval court rolls of Sherborne manor survive for the period 1341-1466. Courts were held twice a year, apparently at irregular intervals.  73 There are a few court rolls for the late 17th century  74  and one for 1763.  75  The court may have ceased to function after inclosure in 1777.

No early churchwardens' or overseers' accounts survive for the parish. Expenditure on poor relief followed the genral trend, rising sharply between 1776 and 1803, when 30 persons received regular relief, 12 of them old or disabled, and 24 were relieved occasionally.  76  The amount expended and the number of people relieved doubled in the next ten years, but had decreased considerably by 1815  77  and continued thereafter to decrease.  78.  Sherborne became part of the Northleach Poor Law Union under the Act of 1834, and of the Northleach Rural Sanitary District under the Act of 1872.  79  The parish council met regularly in 1961.  80

Notes:-
73         Glos. R.O., D 678/ct. rolls.
74         Ibid. ct. roll/79A, 298.
75         Ibid. 299.
76         Poor Law Abstract, 1804,  182-3.
77         Ibid.  1818,  154-5.
78         Poor Law Returns,  H.C. 83, p. 70 (1830-1), xi; ibid H.C. 444, p. 69 (1835), xlvii.
79         Census.
80         Ex inf. estate sub-agent.
Source:
Quoted from the Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, volume 6, page 126, by permission of the General Editor.
Submitted by Alan Longbottom  

Windrush

Local Government.
Windrush was divided in the Middle Ages between four tithings, in which view of frankpledge belonged to the lord of Slaughter hundred but was taken locally instead of at the general view at Salmonsbury. 53  The tithing of Windrush apparently included the tenants of Winchcombe Abbey; by the early 14th century the estates fo the Marsh and Delamare families formed the separate tithings of Maris and Lammaris; 54  and from the mid-14th century Pinchpool manor was often represented as a separate tithing.  55  

The part of Windrush that belonged as part of Sherborne manor to Winchcombe Abbey attended the manor court at Sherborne, and the court rolls rarely distinguished the land and inhabitants of the two parishes. Court rolls survive for the period 1341 to 1466, a few for the late 17th century, and one for 1763.  56

No court rolls survive for the part of Windrush outside Sherborne manor, nor are there any early churchwardens' or overseers' accounts for the parish. In 1803 poor relief, the cost of which had risen from £73 in 1776 to £299, was received regularly by 23 people and occasionally by 12,  57   by 1815 the numbers had changed but little though expenditure had risen to £391.  58  The amount expended decreased considerably during the next 15 years, but rose again between 1830 and 1834.  59  Windrush became part of the Northleach Poor Law Union under the Act of 1835 and of the Northleach Rural Sanitary District under the Act of 1872.  60  In 1961 the parish meetings were not held regularly.

Notes :-
53         See p.6.
54         S.C. 2/176/5.
55         Ibid. 6-9.
56         Glos. R.O., D 678/ct. rolls.
57         Poor Law Abstract, 1804,  182-3.
58         Poor Law Abstract, 1818,  154-5.
59         Poor Law Returns,  H.C. 83, p.71 (1830-1), xi; ibid. H.C. 444, p. 69 (1835), xlvii.
60         Census.
Source:
Quoted from the Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, volume 6, page 182, by permission of the General Editor.
Submitted by Alan Longbottom  

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