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Gloucestershire (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər ʃ ər / ⓘ GLOST-ər-shər, /-ʃ ɪər /-sheer; abbreviated Glos.) [3] is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of ...
Gloucester Shire (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / ⓘ GLOST-ər) was a local government area in the Mid North Coast and Upper Hunter regions of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was situated adjacent to the Bucketts Way and the North Coast railway line .
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Gloucestershire, England. For places in the district of South Gloucestershire , see that article. For places in Bristol formerly in Gloucestershire, see Subdivisions of Bristol .
Gloucester (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / ⓘ GLOSS-tər) is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west; it is sited 19 miles (31 km) from Monmouth, 33 miles (53 km) from Bristol, and 17 miles (27 km) east of the border with Wales.
Gloucestershire in 1832. The region now known as Gloucestershire was originally inhabited by Brythonic peoples (ancestors of the Welsh and English and other Romano-British peoples) in the Iron Age and Roman periods. After the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century, the Brythons re-established control but the territorial divisions for the ...
This is a list of settlements in Gloucestershire by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 23 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Gloucestershire , shown in the table below.
South Gloucestershire: Alveston: 2,953 [13] 11.05 Thornbury Rural District [11] South Gloucestershire: Alvington: 506 [14] 6.59 Lydney Rural District [15] Forest of Dean: Ampney Crucis: 636 [16] 13.12 Cirencester Rural District [17] Cotswold: Ampney St Mary: 218 [18] 9.02 Cirencester Rural District [17] Cotswold: Ampney St Peter: Cirencester ...
Gloucestershire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire, in England.The council was created in 1889. The council's principal functions are county roads and rights of way, social services, education and libraries, but it also provides many other local government services in the area it covers.