Place:Gloucester District, Gloucestershire, England

On the map Gloucester District is numbered 1.

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

The city is located on the eastern bank of the River Severn, sheltered by the Cotswolds to the east, while the Forest of Dean and the Malvern Hills rise to the west and north, respectively.

Gloucester is a port, linked via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal which runs from Gloucester's docks to the Severn Estuary, allowing larger ships to reach the docks than would be possible on the tidal reaches of the river itself, which go well north of the city to Haw Bridge.

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Gloucester is considered to be one of the six "non-metropolitan districts" of Gloucestershire. This means that it has a local council responsible for some government functions, but other functions are carried out at the county level. (See Wikipedia). The non-metropolitan districts were established in 1974.

The city of Gloucester absorbed a number of former civil parishes in its environs in the century leading up to 1974 and, in 2011, the city itself had a population of approximately 121,900. The area covered by Gloucester District includes a larger built-up area whose population, as counted by the 2011 census, was 149,280.

Districts of Gloucester

The list below is taken from Wikipedia and includes some places which have been within Gloucester so long that they never gained "parish" status. With the exception of Coney Hill, Linden and St Pauls, there are descriptions for all of them within Wikipedia.

• Abbeydale and Abbeymead (suburbs close to Barnwood and Hucclecote)
• Alney Island (the large island in the Severn, low lying farmland for the most part)
• Barnwood
• Barton and Tredworth (partly represented by Gloucester Barton St. Mary and Gloucester Barton St. Michael
• Brockworth
• Coopers Edge (a recent residential estate in Brockworth)
• Churchdown
• Coney Hill
• Elmbridge (south of Longlevens and west of Barnwood.)
• Hempsted
• Hucclecote
• Innsworth
• Kingsholm
• Kingsway Village (a recent residential estate adjacent to Quedgeley)
• Linden
• Longlevens
• Matson
• Podsmead (a 20th-century residential estate adjacent to Quedgeley)
• Quedgeley
• St. Pauls
• Tuffley
• Wotton under Edge
• Westgate (one of the oldest parts of the city)
• White City, Gloucester (a 20th-century residential estate in the Northfield Road area)

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:

• A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4, the City of Gloucester 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