BREAM, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Bream, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Gazetteers

• "BREAM, (or Breem), a chapelry in the parish of Newland, hundred of St. Briavell's, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles to the N.W. of Berkeley. Lydney is its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, of the value of £150, in the patronage of the bishop."
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Historical Geography

• "Former chapelry of Newland, ecclesiastical parish formed from Newland and West Dean, 1854."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)