Catalogue description Home Office: Ecclesiastical Census Returns

Ecclesiastical census returns of churches and chapels, endowments, sittings, estimated attendances on 30 March 1851 and average numbers during the preceding twelve months. In a few cases the papers include returns of the educational census, 1851.

PLEASE NOTE: Records within this series are available to download free of charge as part of the Digital Microfilm project.

See also the Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys:

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To discover in which district a place not mentioned by name in this list occurs, consult the printed index to the Population Returns, 1851, in which the number of the registration district, given in the fifth column, is also the number of the bundle e.g. the reference for Abbas Combe is HO 129/320