Place:Gloucestershire, England

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Name: Gloucestershire

Alternate names: Glos (Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002; Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) xvii; Royal Mail: PAF Digest [online] (2002) accessed 16 Dec 2002); GLOSS-ter-sher (Wikipedia); Gloucester (Family History Library Catalog); Gloucester (Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)); Gloucs (BIAB Online (1999-2000) accessed 16 Dec 2002); GLS (Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002)

Type: Historic county, Administrative county, Modern county

Coordinates: 51.783°N 2.25°W

Located in: England

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District: Bradley Stoke; Filton; Mangotsfield

Inhabited place: Abbeymead; Abenhall; Ablington; Acton Turville; Adlestrop; Alderley; Alderton; Aldsworth; Alkerton; Almondsbury; Alstone; Alveston; Alvington; Amberley; Ampney Crucis; Ampney Saint Mary; Ampney Saint Peter; Andoversford; Arlingham; Ashchurch; Ashleworth; Ashley; Aston Subedge; Aston on Carrant; Aust; Avening; Awre; Aylworth; Badgeworth; Badminton; Bagendon; Barnsley; Barnwood; Batsford; Baunton; Beachley; Beckford; Berkeley; Beverston; Bibury; Bishop's Cleeve; Bishop's Norton; Bisley; Bitton; Blakeney; Bledington; Blockley; Boddington; Bourton-on-the-Hill; Bourton-on-the-Water; Boxwell; Bream; Brimpsfield; Bristol ( - 1996 ); Brockhampton; Brockworth; Bromsberrow; Brookthorpe; Buckland; Bulley; Calcot; Cam; Cambridge; Cashes Green; Cassey Compton; Chalford Hill; Chalford; Charfield; Charingworth; Charlton Abbots; Charlton Kings; Chedworth; Cheltenham ( 1000 - ); Cherington; Chesterton; Chipping Campden; Chipping Sodbury; Churcham; Churchdown; Cinderford; Cirencester; Cleeve Hill; Clifton; Coaley; Coalpit Heath; Coates; Coberley; Cold Ashton; Cold Aston; Coleford; Coln Rogers; Coln Saint Aldwyns; Coln Saint Dennis; Compton Abdale; Compton Greenfield; Condicote; Coombe; Cowhill; Cowley; Culkerton; Cutsdean; Daglingworth; Daylesford; Deerhurst Walton; Deerhurst; Didmarton; Dixton; Dodington; Down Ampney; Down Hatherley; Doynton; Driffield; Dumbleton; Duntisbourne Abbots; Duntisbourne Leer; Duntisbourne Rouse; Dursley; Dymock; Dyrham; Easter Compton; Eastington; Eastleach Martin; Eastleach Turville; Ebrington; Edgeworth; Elberton; Elkstone; Elmstone-Hardwicke; English Bicknor; Etloe; Evenlode; Fairford; Falfield; Far Oakridge; Farmcote; Farmington; Fiddington; Flaxley; Forthampton; Foxcote; Frampton Cotterell; Frampton Mansell; Frampton on Severn; Frampton-on-Severn; Fretherne; Frocester; Gaunt's Earthcott; Gloucester; Gorsley; Gossington; Gotherington; Great Badminton; Great Barrington; Great Rissington; Great Washbourne; Great Witcombe; Gretton; Guiting Power; Hailes; Hampen; Hanham; Hardwicke; Harescombe; Haresfield; Harnhill; Harry Sodbury; Harry Stoke; Hasfield; Hatherop; Hawkesbury; Hawling; Hazelton; Hempsted; Henbury; Hewelsfield; Hidcote Bartrim; Hidcote Boyce; Highnam; Hilcot; Hill; Hillesley; Hinton; Horfield; Horsley; Horton; Hucclecote; Huntley; Icomb; Iron Acton; Itchington; Kemble; Kempley; Kempsford; Ketford; Kilcot; King's Stanley; Kingscote; Kingsholm; Kingswood; Lasborough; Latteridge; Lechlade; Leckhampton; Leonard Stanley; Little Barrington; Little Rissington; Little Sodbury; Little Stoke; Little Washbourne; Littleton-upon-Severn; Long Newnton; Longborough; Longhope; Lower Lemington; Lower Slaughter; Lower Swell; Lydney; Marshfield; Maugersbury; Meysey Hampton; Mickleton; Middle Duntisbourne; Milbury Heath; Minchinhampton; Minsterworth; Miserden; Mitcheldean; Mitton; Moreton Valence; Moreton-in-Marsh; Much Dewchurch; Nailsworth; Natton; Naunton; Newent; Newington Bagpath; Newnham on Severn; Newnham; Norcote; North Cerney; North Nibley; Northleach; Northwick Park; Notgrove; Nympsfield; Old Down; Old Sodbury; Oldbury-on-Severn; Oldland; Olveston; Oridge Street; Over; Oxenhall; Oxenton; Ozleworth; Painswick; Pamington; Parkend; Patchway; Pilning; Poole Keynes; Postlip; Poulton; Prestbury; Preston; Pucklechurch; Quenington; Redbrook; Redmarley d'Abitot; Redwick; Rendcomb; Rockhampton; Rodmarton; Ruardean Hill; Ruardean; Ruddle; Rudford; Rudgeway; Saintbury; Salperton; Sandhurst; Sapperton; Sea Mills; Sevenhampton; Severn Beach; Sezincote; Sharpness; Shepperdine; Sherborne; Shipton Moyne; Shipton Oliffe; Shipton Solers; Shurdington; Siddington; Siston; Slimbridge; Snowshill; Somerford Keynes; South Cerney; Southam; Standish; Stanley Pontlarge; Stanton; Stanway; Staverton; Stoke Bishop; Stoke Gifford; Stoke Orchard; Stone; Stonehouse; Stow-on-the-Wold; Stowell; Stratton; Stroud; Sudeley; Swindon; Syde; Taddington; Tarlton; Taynton; Teddington; Temple Guiting; Tetbury Upton; Tetbury; Tewkesbury; Thornbury; Througham; Thrupp & Brimscombe; Tibberton; Tidenham; Tockington; Toddington; Todenham; Tormarton; Tortworth; Tredington; Tuffley; Twyning; Tytherington; Uckington; Uley; Upleadon; Upper Slaughter; Upper Swell; Upton Saint Leonards; Wapley; Westbury on Trym; Westbury-on-Severn; Westerleigh; Weston-sub-Edge; Westonbirt; Whiteshill; Whitfield; Whitminster; Whittington; Wickwar; Willersey; Winchcombe; Windrush; Winson; Winstone; Winterbourne; Withington; Woodchester; Woodmancote; Woolaston; Woolley; Woolstone; Wormington; Wotton-under-Edge; Wyck Rissington; Wyegate Green; Yanworth; Yate

Parish: Cromhall

Region: Forest of Dean

Unknown: Abson; Admington; Alkington; Apperley; Ashton-under-Hill; Aston-Somerville; Avonmouth; Aylburton; Baptist Mills; Barton-Hill; Barton-Regis; Berrington; Beverstone; Bishopston; Blaisdon; Boxwell-with-Leighterton; Brandon Hill; Brangreen; Breadstone; Broad Campden; Broadwell; Brockthrop; Brockwear; Caudle-Green; Cherrington; Childs-Wickham; Christchurch; Clapton-on-the-Hill; Clay Hill; Clifford-Chambers; Clopton; Colesborne; Coln-St. Aldwin; Coln-St. Denis; Compton; Coombe-Hill; Corse; Cotham; Cow-Honeybourne; Cranham; Didbrook; Dirham and Hinton; Donnington; Dorsington; Dowdeswell; Downend (near Minchinhampton); Downend; Drybrook; Duntisborne-Abbotts; Duntisborne-Rouse; Durdham-Down; East Dean; Eastcombe; Eastington (near Stroud); Easton; Eastville; Ebley; Edge; Elmore; Eyford; Fishponds; Frampton-upon-Severn; France-Lynch; Frenchay; Great Shurdington; Great Whitcombe; Guyting-Temple; Ham and Stone; Hamfallow; Hampnett; Hartpury; Hempstead; Henleaze; Highleadon; Highnam Over and Linton; Hinton-on-the-Green; Iccomb; Kemerton; Lancaut; Lassington; Leigh; Lidbrook; Little Dean; Littleworth (near Gloucester); Littleworth (near Minchinhampton); Lockleaze; Longford; Longney; Longwell Green; Lyppiatt; Maisemore; Marston-Sicca; Matson; Maugersby; Moorfields; Moreton-in-the-Marsh; Newland; Newport; Northwick; Norton; Nymphsfield; Oddington; Oldbury-on-the-Hill; Oldbury-upon-Severn; Owlpen; Pauntley; Pebworth; Pinnock and Hyde; Pitchcombe; Pool Hill; Prescott; Preston (near Ledbury); Preston-on-Stour; Prinknash Park; Quedgeley; Quinton; Randwick; Rangeworthy; Redfield; Redland; Redwick and Northwick; Rendcombe; Rodborough; Rowell; Russell Town; Saul; Shepscombe; Shipton-Sollars; Shirehampton; Shortwood (near Stroud); Shortwood; Slad; Soundwell; Southam and Brockhampton; Southrop; Speedwell; Spoonbed; St. Anne's Park; St. Briavels; St. George; St. Philips Marsh; Staple Hill; Stapleton; Staunton; Stinchcombe; Stretton-on-Fosse; Stroud-End; Sudeley-Manor; Tirley; Totterdown; Turkdean; Twigworth; Two-Mile-Hill; Tyndall's Park; Up Hatherley; Upper Tockington; Upton-St. Leonard; Walton-Cardiff; Wapley-cum-Codrington; Warmley Tower; Warmley; West Dean; West Littleton; Westcote; Weston-upon-Avon; Whaddon; Whitefield; Whitehall St. Ambrose; Wick; Winchcomb; Windmill Hill; Winterbourne Down; Woolcott Park

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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.

The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, and Tewkesbury.

When considered as a ceremonial county, Gloucestershire borders the preserved county of Gwent in Wales, and in England the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol.

According to a 2002 marketing campaign by the charity Plantlife, the county flower of Gloucestershire is the Wild Daffodil.

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History

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Historically, Gloucestershire, until 1373, included Bristol. The area of South Gloucestershire was made part of the administrative County of Avon in 1974. Upon the abolition of Avon in 1996, it became a unitary authority, and is now part of the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire.

The official former postal county abbreviation was "Glos.", rather than the frequently used but erroneous "Gloucs." or "Glouc.".

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