Place:Leigh, Gloucestershire, England

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Name	Leigh
Alt names	Coombe-Hill	source: from redirect
	Coombe Hill	source: settlement in parish
	Evington	source: settlement in parish
Type	Chapelry, Parish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates	51.933°N 2.188°W
Located in	Gloucestershire, England
See also	Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England	parish in which it was a chapelry
	Westminster Hundred, Gloucestershire, England	hundred in which part of the parish was located
	Deerhurst Hundred, Gloucestershire, England	hundred in which part of the parish was located
	Tewkesbury Rural, Gloucestershire, England	rural district of which it was part 1894-1935
	Cheltenham Rural, Gloucestershire, England	rural district of which it was part 1935-1974
	Tewkesbury District, Gloucestershire, England	district municipality in which it has been located since 1974

source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: According to A Vision of Britain through Time there are 20 places in England with Leigh in their name--most of them, like that in Gloucester, in the central southwest part of the country. Check and verify your sources.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Leigh in Gloucestershire from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"LEIGH, a parish in Tewkesbury [registration] district, Gloucester; on the river Severn and the Comb canal, 4½ miles SSW of Tewkesbury [railway] station, and 5½ NW by W of Cheltenham. It contains the hamlet of Evington; and its post town is Cheltenham. Acres: 1,720. Rated property: £3,201. Population: 428. Houses: 91. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the dean and chapter of Westminster. Leigh Villa is the seat of W. Hill, Esq., and commands a fine view. Much of the land is subject to frequent inundations [flooding]. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £250. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church consists of nave, small cross aisle, and chancel, with an embattled tower; and is good. There are a national school, and charities about £40."

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Leigh parish was located in Tewkesbury Rural District from 1894 until 1935 and from 1935 until 1974 in Cheltenham Rural District. Since 1974 it has been part of Tewkesbury District or Borough. It was originally a chapelry in Deerhurst, the parish immediately to the north. Coombe Hill is another settlement in Leigh parish.

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Registration Districts

Tewkesbury Registration District (1837 - 1937)
Cheltenham Registration District (1937 - 2006)
Gloucestershire Registration District (2006 - )

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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:

Leigh from A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 8/Deerhurst hundred in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online.
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