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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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