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This Town and Parish List aims to cover all the parishes for which original source
material is available at the Gloucestershire Record Office (GRO). The
list may therefore include references to some parishes which are now in
Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire &c. Parish groupings, and
spellings have been adopted as available in the GRO Handlist, but
please be aware when consulting other sources that there
may be considerable variation to what appears here, both in presentation
and in spelling. Specifically, some parishes may have been known by quite
different names in the past - for example, the modern day village known as
Guiting Power can in some records be found as "Lower Guiting".
Alternatively you might prefer to go to a Map of Gloucestershire to select an area from which you can choose a parish by its location on the map. This should help you in particular when there is more than one parish having the same name. There are two Donningtons, two Eastingtons, two Prestons and two Stauntons which are, or have been part of Gloucestershire; plus a "modern" parish of Kingswood, formed from Bitton in 1821, in addition to the Kingswood near Wooton under Edge. The latter used to be a detached portion of Wiltshire, and was transferred to Gloucestershire in 1844. Some parishes may be noted as being "ex. par." = extra-parochial. " An extra-parochial area was land uninhabited in Anglo-Saxon times and outside the jurisdiction of any civil or ecclesiastical parish. No poor or church rates were paid, though tithes in theory went to the Crown. A resident could choose the nearest convenient parish for baptisms, etc." [Ref: The Parish Registers of Herefordshire, J Harnden, 1987, ISBN 0 9512347 0 6] |
See also Where is it in Gloucestershire for a list of places in the National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868 (provided by Colin Hinson).
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[Adopted 22 Jan 1998. Last updated 5 Mar 2008 - 13:24 by Rosemary Lockie]