Place:Bledisloe Hundred, Gloucestershire, England

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 Bledisloe Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"BLEDISLOE.... hundred contains the parishes of Awre, Alvington, and Lydney. Acres: 16,741. Population: 4,784. Houses: 877."

A much more extensive description of the Bledisloe Hundred will be found in the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire found in the website British History Online.

Bledisloe is one of the Gloucestershire hundreds of the Forest of Dean, situated on the northwest side of the Severn Estuary.