STANLEY PONTLARGE, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

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

Gazetteers

• "STANLEY-PONTLARGE, a parish in the lower division of Kiftsgate hundred, county Gloucester, 2½ miles N.W. of Winchcombe, its post town, and 4 S.W. of Toddington. The parish, which is inconsiderable, is wholly agricultural. The surface is flat, and the soil a deep clay. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Toddington, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The Earl of Wemyss and March is lord of the manor."
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Historical Geography

• "Dedication unknown (chapelry of Toddington)."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

Population

• An Analysis of Households and Occupations from the Census Returns 1841-1901 - Stanley Pontlarge in the second half of the 19th Century - provided by Janey Hawkins. Added 27 Feb 2009.