GLOUCESTER, Gloucestershire

"The chief city, containing 5 parish churches, besides its ancient and magnificent cathedral. It is well built, and its four principal streets are greatly admired for the regularity of their junction in the centre of the town; besides which there are several smaller ones, all well paved. Here is a good stone bridge over the Severn, the lowest down that river, with a quay, wharf, and custom-house. The manufacture of pins, &c., is not so flourishing. It is seated on the east side of the Severn, where, by its two streams, it forms the Isle of Alney. It is 106 miles from London. Market, Wednesday. Fairs on April 5, July 5, September 28, and November 28, the latter chiefly for fat hogs. Population, 14,152." (From Barclay's Complete and Universal English Dictionary, 1842.)

Bibliography

• Verey, David & Welander, David - Gloucester Cathedral. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1979. Paperback 160p.
  • ISBN 0 904387 34 8

Directories

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

Gazetteers

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

Military History

• Extensive information is available about The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 1898-1922 (with particular emphasis on the Great War), supplied by Terry Williams.

GLOUCESTER PARISHES (with dates of earliest registers)