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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 Tewkesbury Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "TEWKESBURY, a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Gloucestershire...The hundred excludes [Tewkesbury] parish; includes 14 other parishes and 2 parts; and is cut into two divisions, lower and upper. Acres: 11,731 and 13,415. Population in 1851: 2,567 and 2,044; in 1861: 4,529. Houses: 1,013."
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List of Parishes
| Parish | Description | Notes
| | Alderton | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Ashchurch | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Ashton under Hill | chapelry, civil parish | to Worcestershire in 1931
| | Boddington | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Bourton on the Hill | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Clifford Chambers | ancient parish, civil parish | to Warwickshire in 1931
| | Forthampton | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Great Washbourne | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Kemerton | ancient parish, civil parish | to Worcestershire in 1931
| | Lower Lemington | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Oxenton | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Prescott | extra parochial area, civil parish |
| | Shenington | ancient parish, civil parish | in Oxfordshire since 1844
| | Stanway | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Stoke Orchard | hamlet, civil parish |
| | Tewkesbury | ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Tredington | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish |
| | Walton Cardiff | chapelry, civil parish |
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Research Tips
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Online sources which may also be helpful:
- The Victoria History of Gloucestershire from the website British History Online. The history of the the upper divisions of Tewkesbury and Westminster hundreds, all in the eastern part of the county.
- The Victoria History of Gloucestershire from the website British History Online. Histories of the parishes of the lower divisions of the hundreds of Tewkesbury and Westminster. The volumes includes an account of the borough of Tewkesbury.
- 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
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