West Drayton, Middlesex Genealogy

England   Middlesex   Middlesex Parishes

Parish History
DRAYTON, WEST (St. Martin [1568]), a parish, in the union of Uxbridge, hundred of Elthorne, county of Middlesex, 3¼ miles (N. E.) from Colnbrook; containing 802 inhabitants. The Grand Junction canal passes through the parish; and here is a station of the Great Western railway, which passes a short distance to the north of the church. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Harmondsworth, and valued in the king's books at £13. 6. 8.: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1824. The church has an embattled tower at the west end, and contains a font curiously sculptured in compartments.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 88-91. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50927 Date accessed: 17 May 2010.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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