Place:Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, England

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Quedgeley is a suburb of Gloucester, England, situated southwest of the city and part of the Gloucester District formed in 1974.

The civil parish of Quedgeley was transferred to Gloucester district in 1991 and is the only civil parish within the city. The 2011 census recorded a population of 17,519 for the parish, which has an area of 576 hectares (1,420 acres).^[1]

The parish church is St. James and is known to have been established before 1137. The octagonal font has panels of gold, coloured tessarae, and blue forest stone. The font is 12th century but was a donation by the then Rev. Winstone Hayward for the re-opening of the church in 1857. While the present-day structure's tower and south aisle are medieval in origin, the remainder of the church is an 1856 restoration by Henry Woodyer in what is considered Victorian Gothic style.

The A38 road that runs through Quedgeley is now as a dual carriageway running between Gloucester city centre and the M5 motorway at junction 12; the old route taken by the A38 through Quedgeley is now the B4008. The village of Hardwicke is contiguous to the south of Quedgeley, in the Stroud District. The hamlet of Woolstrop makes up the western part of Quedgeley, and the eastern part of the town is Kingsway Village.

RAF Quedgeley was a large RAF logistics site, which closed in 1995.

History

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Quedgeley.

British History Online has a large section on Quedgeley divided into eight sections. These supplement the "History" section of the Wikipedia article.

The 19th century "Boundary Changes" for Quedgeley noted in A Vision of Britain through Time are considerable and indicate how Quedgelely was the dominant suburb to the southwest of the city of Gloucester.

Registration Districts

Wheatenhurst (1837 - 1937)
Gloucester Rural (1937 - 1974)
Gloucester (post-1974) (1974 - 2006)
Gloucestershire (2006 - )

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 History of Gloucestershire chapter on Quedgeley, available online on 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
• 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.