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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 Wiltshire Victoria County History, properly called The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire but commonly referred to as VCH Wiltshire, is an encyclopaedic history of the county of Wiltshire in England. It forms part of the overall Victoria County History of England founded in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria. With eighteen volumes ...
Wiltshire has traditionally been a peaceful county, with little impact on national political history. In 1086, after the completion of the Domesday Survey, Salisbury was the scene of a great council, in which all the landholders took oaths of allegiance to the king. A council for the same purpose assembled at Salisbury in 1116.
The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria.
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 ...
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.
Thomas Rudge, The History of the County of Gloucester, compressed and brought down to the year 1803 (1803) Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts Respecting the County of Gloucester (1807) Gloucestershire Victoria County History
Gloucestershire Victoria County History; S. Somerset Victoria County History; W. Wiltshire Victoria County History This page was ...