QUINTON, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

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

Gazetteers

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

Historical Geography

• The parish of Quinton was transferred from Gloucestershire to Warwickshire in 1935. The area it encompassed is usually found on present day maps labelled as Upper Quinton and Lower Quinton, possibly to avoid confusion with another place named Quinton further north, in the West Midlands.
  [Ref: Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Archives, 1995, et al.]