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Name | Langley and Swineshead Hundred |
Alt names | Langley and Seinehead Hundred | source: A Vision of Britain through Time | | Langley and Swinehead Hundred | |
Type | Hundred |
Located in | 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 Langley and Swineshead Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "LANGLEY and SWINESHEAD, a hundred in the SW of Gloucester; cut into two divisions, lower and upper. The [lower division] contains Rockhampton parish, two other parishes, and parts of two others. Acres: 10,176. Population in 1851: 3,384. Houses: 702. The [upper division] con- [text missing] other. Acres: 14,149. Population in 1851: 14,664. Houses: 3,078. Population of both in 1861: 18,350. Houses: 3,922."
The two divisions are detached with the lower reaching to the Severn Estuary between Henbury Hundred and Thornbury Hundred, and the upper division bordering on Somerset.
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Parishes
Parish | Description | Notes
| Almondsbury | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Alveston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Bitton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Doynton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Frampton Cotterell | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Hanham | chapelry, civil parish |
| Littleton upon Severn | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Oldland | hamlet, chapelry, civil parish |
| Olveston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Rockhampton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| Winterbourne | parish (ancient), civil parish |
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Research tips
- The website British History Online provides eight chapters out of at least eleven of the Victoria County History Series on Gloucestershire. Some of these are outlines of topics concerning the whole county, others contain descriptions of cities, towns and villages of varying sizes throughout the area.
- Brett Langston's Registration Districts in Gloucestershire follows the history of registration district provision in Gloucestershire from its inception in 1837 through to the present day.
- GENUKI has a brief overall guide to various sources of information for the county.
- The FamilySearch Wiki on Gloucestershire provides information similar to that in GENUKI.
- Gloucestershire Archives for older sources such as pre-1837 parish registers and other contemporary documents. Address: Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, England GL1 3DW
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