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Gloucestershire - General Sites
Cotswolds
Cotswold Hyperguide. A guide to the towns and villages. Nice photographs.
The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club: Biographical Notes on the Geologists.
Censuses of Gloucestershire. Census returns 1851-1891 for an ever increasing number of Cotswold villages. For sale on CD.
Library/Record Offices/Local Council
Gloucestershire Record Office. Opening hours, contact details.
Glosnet Gloucestershire County Council. Gloucestershire on the internet. 20,000 pages of information on Gloucestershire, ranging from population of villages, through details of Record Office and libraries to tourist and commercial information.
Bristol Record Office. Information regarding the Record office and online catalogue and wills index
Maps
1879 Map of Gloucestershire, by Malcolm Farmer. Zoom in to your area of interest. Amazing! RECOMMENDED.
Multimap. Street and area maps for the UK. Type in the name or Postcode and you have an area map.
As well as the map there are links to local items of interest. RECOMMENDED
Societies
Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (BGAS). Details of Society including the books they publish.
Gloucestershire Family History Society
Gloucestershire Local History Society
Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology
The Gloucestershire section of Genuki RECOMMENDED
Gloucestershire Probate Records from 1600 RECOMMENDED
Royal Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.The official web pages. History, maps.
Military
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum. Searchable database of over 40,000 soldiers who served in World War 1 as well as details of the museum. RECOMMENDED
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Photographs, history, index of names
The Wardrobe. Home of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (Salisbury) Museum.
Newspapers
This is Gloucestershire. "Gloucestershire Echo" and "The Citizen" Newspapers. News, history, photographs, famous people of Gloucestershire.
Western Daily Press Newspaper. News of South West England. [Last time I tried this page it loaded very slowly]
Gloucestershire Churches. Extensive series of photographs
Gloucestershire. Part of West Country Genealogy. Includes the Visitation of Gloucestershire 1623
Viewpoints of Gloucestershire. Photographs taken from Painswick Beacon, May Hill, Pope's Hill (Cinderford).
Unclassified
Hidden Heritage. Gloucestershire related items, including maps for sale.
Ambra
Books Specialists in scarce Gloucestershire and West Country Books,
Manuscripts,
maps etc. for over 25 years. See also Lesley Aitchison for details of details of maps and
documents. http://www.localhistory.co.uk/la
The Francis Frith Collection. Old photographs for sale. Gloucestershire Photographs.
Industrial Archaeology in Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Based at Toddington, Gloucestershire. Information, timetables, photos. for Railway Enthusiasts.
Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust. History, photographs, route description
Redler Company History. Brief Details of Redler Company, based in Dudbridge, Stroud
A tour around the mill: A guide to the machinery and processes which turn fleece into fabric at Cotswold Woollen Weavers
Towers of the Gloucester & Bristol Diocesan Association of Church Bell Ringers - County Map, description of bells,
Index by Location
Alderton Parish Website. Glos. Pictures, description. Includes section on Hailes Abbey
Ampney Crucis. Community website. Photographs, maps and more.
Avening
Avening Church. Photographs, history, map, list of incumbents 1294-1541
Berkeley
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Berkeley. Photo's, History
Bourton on the Water - Now and Then. Photo's, History, Church, Tourist Guide
Bristol
The Bristol Bridge Riot. The Bristol Bridge Riot and Its Antecedents: Eighteenth-Century Perception of the Crowd. Text only academic thesis.
John WESLEY'S Chapel, The New Room, Bristol. Oldest Methodist chapel in the World. History and description
The Bristol Zoo, Bristol, UK. Includes map, directions and online aquarium
Farmer's Bristol. The geography, history and people of Bristol, England.
Bristol's Lost Pubs. List of publicans, photographs, etc.
Bristolhistory.com Contains a number of short stories connected with Bristol and the area of Kingswood forest, modern day webcam, current weather, etc.
Chalford Hill online village. Photographs, village plan and history
Cheltenham
The Cheltenham Ladies College. Past/Present. Includes photographs
Cheltenham Spa. Cheltenham Borough Council official site
Cheltenham Spa - Cheltweb Tourist Guide. Includes notice board for tracing relatives et.
Cheltenham Racecourse. The official site.
Cirencester. Town guide, with photographs.
Cranham
Prinknash Abbey, Cranham. History and Photographs
Dursley
Dursley. History, guide, photographs
Dursley Page. Nice map /photo's
Dursley Glos. Web. A local history guide to the town of Dursley in Gloucestershire, England. RECOMMENDEDWoollen Cloth Industry around Dursley. Includes Chalford, Woodchester, Uley and Nailsworth. Photographs, sketches and history.
Ebley Chapel Details of services. Includes Genealogy section.
Fairford. Photographs and Guide
Frenchay Village, Glos. Brief description
Frocester. History
Gloucester
National Waterways Museum. Description, photographs, brief history of Gloucester Docks
Hartpury. Includes historical notes, places of interest, War memorial.
Hempsted
Hempsted Cross. Description and photographs
Lady Well, Hempsted. Description and photographs
Parish Church. Interior and exterior photographs
Leonard Stanley
Parish Church. Interior and exterior photographs
Farm Pond, Leonard Stanley. A 1940 painting by Sir Stanley Spencer to be found in the Tate Gallery Description, but unfortunately no photograph.
Minchinhampton
Digital-Brilliance. Guide and Photographs
The Long Stone, Standing Stones, Minchinhampton, Photo and description of an unusual "holed" stone.
Minchinhampton. History, from Wikipedia
Moreton in Marsh. Another excellent Digital Brilliance description and photographs.
Genealogy of the North Cotswolds. Census reports, Wills, families etc.
Northleach. Description and photographs of town.
Owlpen Manor Estates. History, Description, cottages to let.
Painswick
Digital Brilliance. Guide to the town, with photographs
Randwick . Memorial inscriptions, parish registers, census, and much more. RECOMMENDED
Rangeworthy Bishops' Transcripts, Gloucestershire.1575 to 1640.
Selsley
Selsley Village, nr. Stroud. History of Selsley and King's Stanley, maps of Selsley etc. RECOMMENDED
Stow on the Wold. Digital Brilliance guide, with photographs.
Stroud
Virtual Stroud. A tour of Stroud in photographs. Guide yourself around Stroud. Tip - click on the arrows to "move". RECOMMENDED
Stroud. Knowhere Guide, part of a series covering the UK
Digital Brilliance Guide to Stroud, with photographs.
Tetbury
Digital Brilliance Guide to Tetbury.
Religious Affiliations Record of Tetbury in 1735. Welcome to Elizabeth Janson's Tetbury on the Web! Have a virtual cup of gourmet coffee to get yourself in the mood, and then scroll down Tetbury's 822 families of 1700 to 1770. RECOMMENDED
Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury Borough Council. History, photographs, tourist information and details of forthcoming events.
Tewkesbury Battlefield Society
Tewkesbury Historical Society.
Tormarton. Census data 1841-1891, Parish Transcripts, Monumental Inscriptions, photographs, and much, much, more. Thanks to Kirsten Hawkes for recommending this site. RECOMMENDED
Uley. Photographs and map
Winchcombe
Digital Brilliance Guide to Winchcombe, with photographs
Winchcombe. Census returns, history, and much, much, more. RECOMMENDED
Woodmancote Evangelical Free Church Photograph, history, present day news.
Wotton Under Edge. Guide with photographs.
Yate and Chipping Sodbury. Guide with photographs.