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Gloucestershire Towns & Parishes

DURSLEY, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries Census Description and Travel Directories

Gazetteers History Occupations Religion and Religious Life

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Dursley, 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.

Description and Travel

• Dursley, a look at the Town in the Past, Present and Future - site compiled by local Architect John Wilkes, with some wonderful information and photographs.

Directories

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

• Transcription of section of Robson's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1837 for Dursley (with Cam, Cambridge, Sandpits, Uley, & Woodmancote), by Cathie Bennett.

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

Gazetteers

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

History

• Dursley Glos. Web - comprehensive local history website for Dursley, featuring industry, street scenes, churches, schools, transport, personal recollections (audio), old maps, &c. provided by Andy Barton.

• History and Old Photographs of Dursley on the Cotswold Edge website, with features on a Dursley Bell Ringer convicted, Robert Ashton Lister, and Pin Making. Updated 14 Jan 2007.

Occupations

• Information on the Woollen Cloth industry in the Dursley area is available via (GSIA) Links to Industrial Archaeology.

Religion and Religious Life

• Notes on Dursley and surrounding villages: Description, population, nonconformist chapels and meeting houses - including memorial inscriptions etc. collected by Stuart Flight.

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