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KINGSWOOD (nr. BRISTOL), Gloucestershire

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Archives and Libraries

Guide to Research Sources for the parish of Holy Trinity, Kingswood (nr. Bristol)

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on the Kingswood War Memorial, recorded by Bill Dungey.

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

• Bitton Families - Genealogy & Local History - a true community site providing data on a cross-section of families in the Bitton area (including Kingswood), plus articles on local history, information about Churches and Chapels, the Brass, and Copper Industries, Land Tax records, Maps, &c. This is a nice site, and very well worth a visit!

Historical Geography

• "Ecclesiastical parish formed from Bitton, 1821."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

History

• The Fishponds Local History Society site features an article about "The Kingswood Forest, Stapleton and Fishponds", which details the "King's Wood"'s beginnings in Saxon times as a Royal Forest, through to the present day. To reach the article, choose the FISHPONDS entry, from the menu on the left of your screen.

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