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Hillesley and Tresham is now a civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. It had a population of 591 according to the 2001 census. The parish contains the villages of Hillesley and Tresham. The Lyvett (Levett) family, an Anglo-Norman family prominent in Sussex, were lords of the manor of Hillesley in 12th and 13th centuries. The family also held Boxwell, Chipping Sodbury and other places in Gloucestershire. The parish was formed in 1991 from part of the Hawkesbury parish when it was in the Northavon District of the County of Avon. It was transferred to Stroud District in Gloucestershire at the time. For further information, see Hawkesbury.
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