Place:Longlevens, Gloucestershire, England

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Longlevens is an area of the City of Gloucester. It was once (about 100 years ago) a small farmstead outside the city of Gloucester. The name is believed to be based on the old Roman name "Colonia Glevensis". Another possibility is that it was named after a row of eleven houses with long gardens (Long-Elevens). One of the oldest roads is 'The Avenue' which is shown on old maps as a number of farm cottages. The area is now part of the larger city of Gloucester but regarded as a more select area. The population of this Gloucester Ward was 9,532 at the 2011 UK census.

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Longlevens was created as a civil parish in 1935 from part of the parish of Wotton St. Mary Without on the northeast of the City of Gloucester in Gloucester Rural District. The civil parish was renamed Innsworth in 1967, but Longlevens remains a community or area. On local maps Longlevens is south of the A40 road and Innsworth is to the north.

A Vision of Britain through Time states that Longlevens was created an ecclesiastical parish in 1932, taking "under one roof" a number of parishes around about.

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:

• The Victoria County History of Gloucestershire has an article describing Wotton from the 1300s to the turn of the 20th century. It is also mentioned several times in the long introduction to this article entitled "Outlying Hamlets"
• 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
• England and Wales Jurisdictions 1851 provides a map illustrating the locations of the various Gloucester parishes. Enter "Gloucester" in the search box at the top left, then select the parish required from the list below the search box.