Place:Upton St. Leonards, Gloucestershire, England

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Upton St. Leonards is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire. Forming part of the district of Stroud it is a mile or so north of the A46 road between Stroud and Cheltenham.

Upton St. Leonards was part of the ecclesiastical and civil parish of Gloucester St. Mary-de-Lode. In the past century and a half the borders of Upton St. Leonards have changed several times as it gained or lost acreage to its neighbouring parishes. The most significant of these was absorbing the whole of Prinknash Park in 1935. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

A 19th century description

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Upton St. Leonards from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"UPTON-ST. LEONARD, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Gloucester; 3 miles SE of Gloucester [railway] station. It has a post-office under Gloucester. Acres: 2,975. Real property: £7,829. Population: 1,035. Houses: 216. The property is much subdivided. Bowden Hall, St. Leonard's Court, and Saint Bridge House are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £175. Patron: the Bishop of [Gloucester and Bristol]. The church was improved, and the chancel rebuilt, in 1850. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a fine national school."

Registration Districts

• Gloucester Registration District (1837 - 1937)
• Gloucester Rural Registration District (1937 - 1974)
• Gloucester (post-1974) Registration District (1974 - 2006)
• Gloucestershire Registration District (2006 - )

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:

• There are several references to Upton St Leonards in Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, Volume 4 on the City of Gloucester.
• 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