Buckinghamshire Parishes (old)
Pitstone Parish
Church: St Mary
Hundred: Cottesloe
Poor Law District: Berkhampstead
Size (acres): 1655
Easting & Northing: 494214
Grid Ref SP940140 Click to see map
Articles
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Pitstone
Pitstone Parish (Pop. 436) Two Sunday Schools, both supported by voluntary contributions; in one are 55 children of both sexes, who attend the Established Church; the other (commenced 1833) appertains to Methodists, and consists of 8 children; most of the above children attend a straw-plait Schoo
Pitstone
Pitstone was a very small village until the advent of the Tunnel Cement Company in the late 1940s. The company quarries chalk from land to the south west of the village and uses it in the manufacture of cement. This provided employment and more houses were soon needed to house the influx of cement w
Pitstone
Description of Pitstone from J.J.Sheahan, 1861.
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Places
Name | Type | Note |
---|---|---|
Pitstone | PARISH | St Mary |
Pidlesthorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1743 |
Pightlesthorn | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1826 |
Pightlesthorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1825 |
Pincelestorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in Domesday Book in 1086 |
Pincenestorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in Domesday Book in 1086 |
Pittelsthorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1766 |
Pittleshorn | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1526 |
Pychesthorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1593 |
Pytcheleythorne | NAMES | name for Pitstone in 1536 |
Barley End | PLACE | within the parish |
Duncombe End | PLACE | within the parish |
Yardley (Fm) | PLACE | within the parish |
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Population
These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..
Note | |
1801 | 275 |
1811 | 288 |
1821 | 353 |
1831 | 436 |
1841 | 424 |
1851 | 438 |
1861 | 457 |
1871 | 479 |
1881 | 433 |
1891 | 459 |
1901 | 396 |
1911 | 435 |
1921 | 372 |
1931 | 363 |
1941 | N/A |
1951 | 544 |
1961 | 766 |
1971 | 1147 |
1981 | 1665 |
1991 | 1909 |
There was no census in 1941.
Records
Parish | Church | Register | Start Date | End Date | Online Search | E-Mail Search | Publication |
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Pitstone | St Mary | Baptisms | 1576 | 1901 | Yes, click here | Yes, click here | Yes, click here | Pitstone | St Mary | Marriages | 1576 | 1919 | Yes, click here | Yes, click here | Yes, click here | Pitstone | St Mary | Burials | 1600 | 1901 | Yes, click here | Yes, click here | Yes, click here |
Surnames
These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.
Position | Before 1700 | 18th Century | 19th Century | Overall Surnames |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GLENISTER | COLLINS | TOMPKINS | TOMPKINS |
2 | BREWER | TOMPKINS | JELLIS | COLLINS |
3 | NOARE | COLLYER | COLLYER | COLLYER |
4 | IVES | SEABROOK | COLLINS | JELLIS |
5 | DURRANT | GLENISTER | WILLIAMSON | GLENISTER |
6 | SEARE | COOK | TREACHER | WILLIAMSON |
7 | BRIDGEWATER | SMITH | COKER | SEABROOK |
8 | CRAWLEY | FENN | MESSENGER | TREACHER |
9 | DUNCOMBE | COCK | BRIDGEWATER | LONDON |
10 | SAWELL | WAKEMAN | ARCHER | BRIDGEWATER |