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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.
St. Briavels is one of the Gloucestershire hundreds of the Forest of Dean, situated on the northwest side of the Severn Estuary.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of St. Briavels Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BRIAVELS (St.), a hundred in Gloucester. It contains St. Briavels and ten other parishes, and part of another. Acres: 46,412. Population: 28,215. Houses: 5,768."
A much more extensive description of the St. Briavels 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
| Abenhall | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Bream | tything | in the parish of West Dean
| Clearwell | tything | in the parish of Newland
| Dean Forest | extra parochial area | Split into the townships of East Dean and West Dean in 1844
| East Dean | township, civil parish |
| English Bicknor | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Flaxley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Hewelsfield | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Hinders Lane and Dockham | extra parochial area, civil parish |
| Lea Bailey | tything, civil parish | 1866 - 1890
| Lea Lower | township, civil parish | absorbed into Lea in Herefordshire in 1844
| Littledean | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Mitcheldean | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Newland | tything, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Ruardean | chapelry, civil parish |
| St. Briavels | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Staunton (near Coleford) | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| West Dean | township, parish (ancient), civil parish |
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