Place:Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

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NameGloucester
Alt namesCaer Glousource: Blue Guide: England (1980) p 296
Gleawe-Caestresource: ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Glevumsource: Athena, Romano-British Sites [online] (2000) accessed 5 August 2004; Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 344
Glostersource: Family History Library Catalog
Glouuecestresource: Domesday Book (1985) p 113
TypeCity, County town
Coordinates51.883°N 2.233°W
Located inGloucestershire, England
See alsoGloucester (district), Gloucestershire, Englandmunicipal district of which Gloucester is the principal part since 1974
Contained Places
Church
Gloucester Cathedral
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


NOTE: There were many other churches within Gloucester as well as the Cathedral. Some of these, being registration districts in the 19th century, have their own pages in WeRelate. Each church placename starts with "Gloucester" as in Gloucester St. Nicholas.

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Gloucester is a city, a municipal district and a county town in Gloucestershire in the southwest of England. It lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately 32 miles (51 km) north-east of Bristol, and 45 miles (72 km) south-southwest of Birmingham.

Gloucester is a cathedral city and capital of its county. It is situated on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway. It was founded in AD 97 by the Romans under Emperor Nerva as Colonia Glevum Nervensis, and was granted its first charter in 1155 by King Henry II.

Economically, the city is now dominated by the service industries, with a strong financial and business sector, being home to the UK mortgage and savings provider Cheltenham & Gloucester, formerly a building society of the same name. As is outlined in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4, the City of Gloucester, over the centuries it was home to a variety of industries including pin-making. In the 20th century it was prominent in the aerospace industry. There is more information about Gloucester's place in the aerospace industry in Wikipedia's section "Business and industry".

For more on the area surrounding the City of Gloucester, see Gloucester District.

History

For quick coverage see Wikipedia.

For a long read see Volume 4 of the Victoria County History of the County of Gloucester (450 pages covering 10 centuries). For a map illustrating the changes in boundaries, see the second entry under Research Tips below. Registration Districts

Gloucester Registration District was created in 1896 from the parishes of

From 1837 until 1896 all these parishes were responsible for recording their own Births, Marriages and Deaths and the censuses as civil parishes as well as their ecclesiastical parish responsibilities.

Research Tips

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