WOTTON St Mary Without, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Wotton St Mary Without, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Bibliography

• An article entitled My Parish - Wotton St Mary Without was featured in the Gloucestershire Family History Society Journal, Number 58, Sept 1993, pp22-23. The writer remembers Longlevens, within the parish of Wotton St Mary, as a village about a mile outside the Gloucester City boundary, and surrounded by fields and farms. A most interesting and nostalgic article.

Gazetteers

• "WOOTTON, a hamlet in the parish of Gloucester St. Mary-de-Lode, county Gloucester, half a mile S.E. of Gloucester, of which it is a suburb, containing the county gaol and lunatic asylum."
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Historical Geography

• According to the Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester (I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963) a Civil parish of Wotton St Mary Without was formed in 1884. The District of Wotton Saint Mary Without was formed in 1932 from parts of the parishes of St Mary de Lode, St Catherine, Barnwood, Churchdown, Down Hatherley, and Twigworth, and of the extra-parochial 'Wotton Vill', comprising:-

  "All those contiguous portions of the Parish of Saint Mary de Lode, Gloucester, of the Parish of Saint Catherine, Gloucester, of the Parish of Barnwood, of the Parish of Churchdown, of the Parish of Down Hatherley, of the Parish of Twigworth, and of the Extra Parochial Place called or known as Wotton Vill, which, taken together, are comprised within and are bounded by an imaginary line commencing at the centre of the bridge which carries Innsworth Road across Hatherley Brook where the boundaries of the Civil Parish of Churchdown, of the Civil Parish of Down Hatherley, and of the Civil Parish of Wotton Saint Mary Without, all meet, and extending thence first westward and then in various directions along the boundary of the said Civil Parish of Wotton Saint Mary Without (thereby following in one part the middle of Hatherley Brook, in another part the middle of Horsbere Brook, in another part the middle of Longford Lane, and in another part the middle of Wotton Brook) for a distance of 2½ miles or thereabouts to the centre of Cole Bridge, which carries Cheltenham Road across Wotton Brook, and extending thence north eastward along the middle of Cheltenham Road, for a distance of 25 chains or thereabouts to a point opposite to the northern end of the fence which divides the close numbered 214 upon the Ordnance Survey Map of the said Civil Parish of Wotton Saint Mary Without published in the year 1923 on the scale of 25 inches to a mile and also upon the map or plan annexed to this Scheme from the close numbered 214A upon the said maps, and extending thence first southward to such fence and then first southward and then in various directions along the fences which divide the said close numbered 214 and the close numbered 218 upon the said maps from the said close numbered 214A and the closes numbered 195 and 193 upon the same maps for a distance in all of 24 chains or thereabouts to the point where the fence which divides the said close numbered 218 from the said close numbered 193 reaches the north eastern side of Lonsdale Road, and extending thence first south westward to and then south eastward along the middle of Lonsdale Road for a distance of 10 chains or thereabouts to its junction with Elmbridge Road, and extending thence north eastward along the middle of Elmbridge Road for a distance of 12½ chains or thereabouts to its junction with Sisson Road, and extending thence south eastward along the middle of Sisson Road for a distance of 15½ chains or thereabouts to its eastern end at the gateway forming the entrance to Sisson's Engineering Works and extending thence first north eastward and then south eastward along the fences forming the western and northern boundaries of the premises attached to the said Engineering Works for a distance of 11 chains or thereabouts to the point where the fence forming the northern boundary of such premises reaches the fence forming the north western boundary of the Bristol and Birmingham Line of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and extending thence first south eastward to and then north eastward along the middle of the said line of railway for a distance in all of 1 mile and 3 chains or thereabouts to the centre of Witcombe Bridge, and extending thence north westward along the middle of the roadway leading under Witcombe Bridge and in a straight line in continuation thereof for a distance in all of 1¼ chains or thereabouts to a point in the middle of the stream which runs north westward into Hatherley Brook, and extending thence first northward and then north westward along the middle of such stream for a distance of 70 chains or thereabouts to the boundary which divides the Civil Parish of Hucclecote from the said Civil Parish of Wotton Saint Mary Without, and extending thence first north eastward and then in various directions along the boundary of the said Civil Parish of Wotton Saint Mary Without for a distance of 2½ miles or thereabouts to the centre of the bridge which carries Innsworth Road across Hatherley Brook, at which point the said imaginary line commenced." [ex: The London Gazette, 12 April 1932, pp.2391-2]