Charlton Kings Local History Society

Research Bulletin 57

• The Society’s latest publication. On sale at meetings (free to members) or from Lyefield Road Post Office, price £3.50 (plus pp where applicable)

• Contents include articles on:

  • The Lloyd George Survey
  • Two Henwood Cousins
  • 100 Years of Scouting
  • Haywards Road
  • Magic in Ryeworth
  • A Charlton Kings Hero: Sydney Mabbett
  • Nazareth House
  • James Humphris
  • An Employment Agreement:
  • Church Piece Chapel
  • Revd. Seymour Chance
  • Cattle Troughs in Charlton Kings
  • Charlton Common Wall
  • The Centenary Brick
  • A Common Marriage

Spring 2011

£3.50
+ pp

Charlton Kings Probate Records 1600-1800

• This book, in the form of a hard-back file, contains over 300 wills and inventories for Charlton Kings inhabitants, with a 12 page introduction and glossary of unusual terms. It is indexed under Personal Names, Place Names and Subjects.

2003

£12.00
+ pp

Charlton Kings Tudor Wills

• This publication, intended as a Supplement to the Probate Record, contains 80 wills for the period 1542 to 1598 indexed under Personal Names and Place Names.

2004

£2.50
+ pp

Five Walks Around Charlton Kings

• A booklet describing five walks of various lengths, all starting at the lych-gate of St Mary’s church. Illustrated with maps and drawings.

£0.50
+ pp

Five More Walks Around Charlton Kings

• A booklet describing longer walks out into the country around Charlton Kings. Illustrated with maps and drawings.

£0.50
+ pp

Troubled Waters: The Great Cheltenham Water Controversy

• 215 pages

• 90 illustrations

• From 1820 onwards the growing population of Cheltenham struggled to find a water supply to replace its inadequate and polluted wells. How to achieve this became a matter of a passionate and angry debate. The factions were of many kinds: Liberals and Tories, private and municipal, gentry and tradesmen, Economists and Non-economists, plumbers and employers, landlords and tenants, Spa purists and philanthropists. External conflict spread to Charlton Kings, Tewkesbury and Gloucester and nationally through Parliamentary Bills. Fought through the Press, meetings, petitions, speeches and even poems, and not without its humorous moments, the Great Cheltenham Water Controversy lasted over 60 years, as Government legislation, a new breed of water engineers and sheer necessity began to change entrenched attitudes. The story has its technical aspects in the building of local reservoirs and water infrastructure but it also presents a vivid picture of local government and social attitudes over the period.

2007

£9.00
+ pp

Charlton Kings Parish Rate Books for 1858 and 1882

• indexed by personal names and place names

2003

£2.00
+ pp

Charlton Kings Register of Electors for 1832/3, 1842/3 and 1862

2004

£1.00
+ pp

Improving the property : the Prinns and Forden House (later Charlton Park, now St Edward's School, by Mary Paget

2002

£2.00
+ pp

The Dixon-Hartland family, 1832-1956

2005

£6.00
+ pp

Charlton Kings in Old Photographs

1999

£10.00
+ pp

John Burgh Rochfort Preacher Extraordinary

£2.00
+ pp

Indexed transcripts of the Parish Registers for the following years:

• 1538-1634

£2.00
+ pp

• 1634-1700

£3.00
+ pp

• 1813-1834

£5.00
+ pp

Index to Bulletins 1-7 and 8-17

£1.00
+ pp

Index to Bulletins 18-27

£2.00
+ pp

Index to Bulletins 38-47

£3.00
+ pp

Index to Bulletins 48-52

£3.00
+ pp