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Great Washbourne

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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"GREAT WASHBOURNE, a parish in the upper division of Tewkesbury hundred, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.W. of Winchcombe, its post town, 6 N.E. of Tewkesbury, and 4 N.E. of Ashchurch station, on the Bristol and Birmingham railway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £59. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are Sunday and day schools for both sexes, supported by It. Prance, Esq., who is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Archives & Libraries

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

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Description & Travel

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Gazetteers

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Historical Geography

  • "Gloucester Diocese. In civil parish of Dumbleton since 1935."
    (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SO993347 (Lat/Lon: 52.010881, -2.012214), Great Washbourne which are provided by: