Gloucestershire Towns and Parishes
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).
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