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COLEFORD, Gloucestershire

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Archives and Libraries

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

Census

• Gloucestershire - Census Returns 1841-1901 - all you ever wanted to know about the Census.

Church History

• St John's Church at Coleford - Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire was built originally to an octagonal plan - the site has an old photograph of it before its replacement in 1882.

Directories

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

• Transcription of section of Robson's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1837 for Coleford (includes Cinderford and Whiteclift), by Cathie Bennett.

• Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1842 for Coleford, by Cathie Bennett.

• Transcription of section of Slaters Directory of Gloucestershire, 1852 for Coleford, by Cathie Bennett.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1870 for Coleford, by Cathie Bennett.

• Transcription of section of Morris & Co's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1876 for Coleford, by Cathie Bennett.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1902 for Coleford, by Cathie Bennett.

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).

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