Place:Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, England

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NameGuiting Power
Alt namesGetingesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 113
Guiting-Lowersource: Family History Library Catalog
Guiting-Powersource: Family History Library Catalog
Guyting-Powersource: Family History Library Catalog
Lower Guytingsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeVillage
Coordinates51.917°N 1.867°W
Located inGloucestershire, England
See alsoKiftsgate (hundred), Gloucestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was located
North Cotswold Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandrural district 1935-1974
Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, Englanddistrict municipality since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Guiting Power is a small Gloucestershire village in the Cotswolds, England. It is situated on the slopes above a small valley (formed by a tributary of the River Windrush). There was a late Anglo-Saxon settlement on this site, when it was called Gyting Broc. The village is near Cheltenham.

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Online sources which may also be helpful:

  • 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. Do 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
  • Unfortunately, A History of the County of Gloucester in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online does not cover this part of the county
  • Ancestry.co.uk has recently added Gloucestershire Burials, 1813-1988; Confirmations, 1834-1913; Baptisms, 1813-1913; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813; and Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938. (entry dated 1 Aug 2015)


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