Place:Elmstone Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, England

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Elmstone Hardwicke is a village and sizeable parish northwest of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England. Elmstone Hardwicke is in the Borough or District of Tewkesbury. Nearby villages include Uckington, Stoke Orchard, and Tredington.

St. Mary Magdelene Church may be considered the hub of the village. The church has a 9th-century carved stone head which is ornamented like the font at Deerhurst.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Elmstone Hardwicke. under the heading "History". It was a chapelry in the parish of Deerhurst until 1296.

Registration Districts

• Tewkesbury Registration District (1837 - 1937)
• Cheltenham 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:

• Elmstone-Hardwicke from A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 8/Deerhurst 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