Place:Adlestrop, Gloucestershire, England

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Adlestrop (formerly Titlestrop or Edestrop) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire, England. It is known as Tedestrop in the Domesday Book.

The civil parish has included the village of Daylesford since it was transferred from Worcestershire into Gloucestershire in 1935. In the 2001 UK census the parish had a population of 153, decreasing to 120 in the 2011 UK census.

Since 1974 the parish has been part of the Cotswold District.

The novelist Jane Austen visited Adlestrop House, formerly the rectory, at least three times between 1794 and 1806, when the occupant was Rev. Thomas Leigh, her mother's cousin. She is thought to have drawn inspiration from the village and its surroundings for her novel Mansfield Park.

Adlestrop railway station is memorialized in a poem by Edward Thomas (1878-1917) which is reproduced in Wikipedia.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Adlestrop from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ADDLESTROP, a parish in Stow-on-the-Wold [registration] district, Gloucester[shire]; on the river Evenlode, 3½ miles ENE of Stow-on-the-Wold. It has a station, with Stow-Road, on the West Midland railway. Post Town: Stow-on-the-Wold, under Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres: 1,285. Real property: £1,913. Population: 184. Houses: 42. The manor belonged to the Abbey of Evesham, passed at the dissolution to Sir Thomas Leigh, and is now the property of Lord Leigh. Addlestrop House, the seat of his lordship, is a large and interesting mansion, partly of considerable antiquity, amid beautiful grounds laid out by Adey Repton. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Broadwell, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was built in 1764, and is in good condition."

Registration Districts

Stow on the Wold Registration District (1837 - 1937)
North Cotswold Registration District (1937 - 2006)
Gloucestershire Registration District (2006 - )

Research Tips

• Gloucestershire Archives in Gloucester is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for this part of Gloucestershire are stored.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

• Article on Adlestrop from A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6/Slaughter hundred in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online
• GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
• A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Respect the copyright on this material.
• The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
• A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county