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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2. William Page (editor) (1907). The first volume was a part-volume covering the religious houses of the county, including the early history of Gloucester Cathedral, and local industries. Following publication, the Victoria County History project for Gloucestershire lay dormant for nearly 50 years.
The history of the VCH falls into three main phases, defined by different funding regimes: an early phase, 1899–1914, when the project was conceived as a commercial enterprise, and progress was rapid; a second more desultory phase, 1914–1947, when relatively little progress was made; and the third phase beginning in 1947, when, under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, a ...
Bristol was made a county in 1373, and in 1483 Richard III created Gloucester as an independent county, [14] adding to it the hundreds of Dudston and Kings Barton. The latter were reunited to Gloucestershire in 1673, but the cities of Bristol and Gloucester continued to rank as independent counties, with separate jurisdiction, county rate and ...
Pages in category "History of Gloucestershire" ... Gloucestershire County Cricket Club; ... Gloucestershire Victoria County History; H. Hereford, Ross and Gloucester ...
Samuel Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire (1779) Rudder's work was based on Atkyns and a manuscript of Richard Furney. [23] Ralph Bigland, Historical, Monumental & Genealogical Collections relative to the County of Gloucester (1791–94) Thomas Rudge, The History of the County of Gloucester, compressed and brought down to the year 1803 (1803)
The Victoria County History provides a detailed account of the history of the parish from the eleventh to the twentieth century. [3] The Fosse Way forms part of the parish boundary and also the county boundary with Wiltshire. Shipton Moyne was one of several parishes which were transferred from Wiltshire to Gloucestershire in 1930.
The County of Berkshire comprised 20 hundreds and 193 parishes and parts of four others. [2] From The National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland (1868), Victoria County History Berkshire Vol 3 (1923) [ 3 ] & Vol 4 (1924) [ 4 ]
Page, William. (Ed.) (1907) A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2. London. (The Victoria County History) - covers the religious houses of Gloucestershire and the early history of Gloucester Cathedral. Welander, David. (1985) The Stained Glass of Gloucester Cathedral. [2] - (1991) The History, Art, and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral.