Place:Bradley Hundred, Gloucestershire, England

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NameBradley Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inGloucestershire, England

The Hundreds of Gloucestershire, as with hundreds in other English counties, were the original geographic divisions of the county for administrative, military and judicial purposes. Each hundred covered a number of parishes. The introduction of civil registration in 1837 was accompanied by the creation of other groups of parishes such as Sanitary Districts and Poor Law Unions.

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

"BRADLEY, a hundred in Gloucester. It lies in the eastern part of the county; and contains Aston-Bank [sic] parish, sixteen other parishes, and parts of two others. Acres: 36,790. Population: 5,943. Houses: 1,225."

A much more extensive description of the Bradley Hundred will be found in the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire found in the website British History Online.

Bradley Hundred is one of the hundreds of Gloucestershire located in the Cotswold Hills, noted for their golden-coloured building stone.

Image:Gloucestershire 1832 Map of Hundreds WP.png

List of Parishes

This list of parishes totals 23. There were mergers of parishes (such as the Shiptons) which occurred before Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872.

ParishDescriptionNotes
Aston Blank ancient parish, civil parish now known as Cold Aston
Bibury ancient parish, civil parish
Coln Rogers ancient parish, civil parish absorbed into Coln St. Dennis in 1935
Compton Abdale ancient parish, civil parish
Dowdeswell ancient parish, civil parish
Eastington tything, chapelry, civil parish Northleach with Eastington since 1935
Farmington ancient parish, civil parish
Hampnett ancient parish, civil parish
Haselton ancient parish, civil parish included Salperton after 1935
Naunton ancient parish, civil parish
Northleach ancient parish, civil parish Northleach with Eastington since 1935
Notgrove ancient parish, civil parish
Salperton ancient parish, civil parish absorbed into Haselton in 1935
Sevenhampton ancient parish, civil parish absorbed into Sudeley parish in 1935
Shipton civil parish
Shipton Oliffe ancient parish, civil parish now merged into the parish of Shipton
Shipton Sollars ancient parish, civil parish now merged into the parish of Shipton
Stowell ancient parish, civil parish
Turkdean ancient parish, civil parish
Whittington ancient parish, civil parish
Winson chapelry, civil parish
Withington ancient parish, civil parish
Yanworth chapelry, civil parish originally part of Haselton parish

Research Tips

Online sources which may also be helpful:

  • A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 9/Bradley hundred in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online
  • Three maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrate the changes in political boundaries over the period 1830-1945. All have expanding scales and on the second and third this facility is sufficient that individual parishes can be inspected.
  • Gloucestershire Hundreds as drawn in 1832. This map was prepared before The Great Reform Act of that year. Note the polling places and representation of the various parts of the county.
  • Gloucestershire in 1900, an Ordnance Survey map showing rural districts, the boundaries of the larger towns, the smaller civil parishes of the time, and some hamlets and villages in each parish
  • Gloucestershire in 1943, an Ordnance Survey map showing the rural districts after the changes to their structure in the 1930s
  • A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
  • GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish. 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. The compiler has gone to a lot of work to provide this material. Respect his copyright.
  • The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
  • English Jurisdictions, a supplementary website to FamilySearch outlining local parish boundaries in the middle on the 19th century. The information provided is especially useful for establishing the relationship of the ecclesiastical parishes in large towns and cathedral cities.
  • Ancestry UK has recently added Gloucestershire Burials, 1813-1988; Confirmations, 1834-1913; Baptisms, 1813-1913; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813; and Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938. (entry dated 1 Aug 2015)