COLEFORD, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

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

Directories

• Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1830 for Coleford, by Ted Wildy.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Coleford from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Historical Geography

• Christchurch is an "ecclesiastical parish formed from extra-parochial area of the Forest of Dean, 1844."
  Coleford was a "chapelry of Newland until 1872, united with Staunton since 1922."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

• "In County and Diocese of Glos. A small portion [of Coleford] was previously within Herefordshire, near Welsh Bicknor"
  (Ref: The Parish Registers of Herefordshire, J Harnden, 1987, ISBN 0 9512347 0 6).