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The Hundreds of Gloucestershire, as with hundreds in other English counties, were the original geographic divisions of the county for administrative, military and judicial purposes. Each hundred covered a number of parishes. The introduction of civil registration in 1837 was accompanied by the creation of other groups of parishes such as Sanitary Districts and Poor Law Unions.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Longtree Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LONGTREE, a hundred in Gloucester; bounded, on the E and the S, by Wiltshire; and containing Avening parish, and nine other parishes. Acres: 30,592. Population in 1851: 17,420; in 1861: 16,260. Houses: 3,746."
A much more extensive description of the Longtree Hundred will be found in the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire found in the website British History Online.
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Parishes
Parish | Description | Notes
| Avening | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Cherington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Horsley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Lasborough | parish (ancient) |
| Minchinhampton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Nailsworth | chapelry, civil parish |
| Rodborough | chapelry, civil parish |
| Rodmarton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Shipton Moyne | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Tetbury | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Westonbirt | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Woodchester | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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