The Victoria History of Gloucestershire is the definitive reference for information on places in Gloucestershire. The series is not yet complete. The source material for the series is mainly found in Gloucestershire Archives, supplemented by material in the National Archives at Kew, Local Studies libraries in Gloucestershire and documents in private or other institutional hands.
The area to be covered by the Gloucestershire V.C.H. is essentially the old county of Gloucestershire, as it was prior to the 1974 local government re-organistion, together with some areas which are now in Worcestershire or Warwickshire and the City of Bristol. The intention is that there will be twenty volumes altogether, the first three being general volumes, two covering the cities of Gloucester and Bristol, the rest will comprise the histories of the 323 ancient parishes and smaller towns, arranged by hundreds, the ancient administrative divisions of the county. So far,eleven volumes have been produced. They are:
Volume | Topic |
2 | Ecclesiastical, social, economic and industrial history |
4 | The City of Gloucester |
5 | The Forest of Dean |
6 | Stow on the Wold area |
7 | Fairford and Bibury area |
8 | Tewkesbury and the Northern Vale |
9 | The Northleach area of the Cotswolds |
10 | Upper Severnside |
11 | The Stroud Valleys |
12 | Newent and May Hill |
13 | The Vale of Gloucester and Leadon Valley |
Check the following table to see if the area of your interest has been covered yet.
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Parish | Volume |
Abenhall | 5 |
Adlestrop | 6 |
Alderton | 6 |
Aldsworth | 7 |
Alvington | 5 |
Ashchurch | 8 |
Ashleworth | 13 |
Ashton under Hill | 8 |
Avening | 11 |
Awre | 5 |
Aylburton | 5 |
Barnsley | 7 |
Barnwood | 4 |
Beckford | 8 |
Bibury | 7 |
Bishop’s Cleeve | 8 |
Bisley | 11 |
Blaisdon | 10 |
Bledington | 6 |
Boddington | 8 |
Bourton on the Hill | 6 |
Bourton on the Water | 6 |
Brimpsfield | 7 |
Broadwell | 6 |
Brockweir | 5 |
Bromesberrow | 12 |
Bulley | 13 |
Cherington | 11 |
Churcham | 10 |
Cinderford | 5 |
Clapton | 6 |
Clifford Chambers | 6 |
Coberley | 7 |
Cold Aston | 9 |
Coleford | 5 |
Colesbourne | 7 |
Coln St Aldwyns | 7 |
Coln St Denis | 8 |
Coln Rogers | 9 |
Compton Abdale | 9 |
Condicote | 6 |
Corse | 8 |
Cowley | 7 |
Cranham | 7 |
Deerhurst | 8 |
Dixton | 6 |
Dowdeswell | 9 |
Drybrook | 5 |
Dymock | 12 |
Eastington | 10 |
Eastleach Martin | 7 |
Eastleach Turville | 7 |
Edgeworth | 11 |
Elkstone | 7 |
Elmore | 13 |
Elmstone Hardwicke | 8 |
English Bicknor | 5 |
Eyford | 6 |
Fairford | 7 |
Farmington | 9 |
Flaxley | 5 |
Forest of Dean | 5 |
Forthampton | 8 |
Frampton on Severn | 10 |
Fretherne | 10 |
Frocester | 10 |
Gloucester City | 4 |
Great Barrington | 6 |
Great Rissington | 6 |
Great Washbourne | 6 |
Hampnett | 9 |
Hardwick | 10 |
Haresfield | 10 |
Hartpury | 13 |
Hasfield | 8 |
Hatherop | 7 |
Hazleton | 9 |
Hempsted | 4 |
Highnam | 10 |
Hinton on the Green | 8 |
Horsley | 11 |
Hucclecote | 4 |
Huntley | 12 |
Kemerton | 8 |
Kempley | 12 |
Kempsford | 7 |
King’s Stanley | 10 |
Lancaut | 10 |
Lasborough | 11 |
Lassington | 13 |
Lechlade | 7 |
Leigh | 8 |
Leonard Stanley | 10 |
Little Barrington | 6 |
Little Rissington | 6 |
Littledean | 5 |
Longford | 4 |
Longhope | 12 |
Longney | 10 |
Lower Lemington | 6 |
Lower Slaughter | 6 |
Lower Swell | 6 |
Lydbrook | 5 |
Lydney | 5 |
Maisemore | 13 |
Matson | 4 |
Minchinhampton | 11 |
Minsterworth | 13 |
Miserden | 11 |
Mitcheldean | 5 |
Moreton in Marsh | 6 |
Moreton Valence | 10 |
Nailsworth | 11 |
Naunton | 6 |
Newland | 5 |
Newnham | 10 |
North Cerney | 7 |
Norton | 13 |
Notgrove | 9 |
Oddington | 6 |
Oxenhall | 12 |
Oxenton | 8 |
Painswick | 11 |
Pauntley | 12 |
Prescott | 6 |
Preston | 12 |
Prestbury | 8 |
Preston on Stour | 8 |
Quedgeley | 10 |
Quenington | 7 |
Randwick | 10 |
Rendcomb | 7 |
Rodborough | 11 |
Rodmarton | 11 |
Ruardean | 5 |
Rudford | 13 |
Salperton | 9 |
Sandhurst | 13 |
Sapperton | 11 |
Saul | 10 |
Sherborne | 6 |
Shipton Moyne | 11 |
Southrop | 6 |
St Briavels | 5 |
Standish | 10 |
Stanway | 6 |
Staunton | 5 |
Staverton | 8 |
Stonehouse | 10 |
Stow on the Wold | 6 |
Stowell | 9 |
Stroud | 11 |
Syde | 7 |
Taynton | 12 |
Tetbury | 11 |
Tewkesbury | 8 |
Tibberton | 13 |
Tidenham | 10 |
Tirley | 8 |
Todenham | 6 |
Tredington | 8 |
Tuffley | 4 |
Turkdean | 9 |
Twigworth | 4 |
Twyning | 13 |
Upleadon | 13 |
Upper Slaughter | 6 |
Walton Cardiff | 8 |
Westbury on Severn | 10 |
Westcote | 6 |
Westonbirt | 11 |
Wheatenhurst | 10 |
Whitminster | 10 |
Whittington | 9 |
Wick Rissington | 6 |
Windrush | 6 |
Winson | 7 |
Winstone | 11 |
Withington | 9 |
Woodchester | 11 |
Woolaston | 10 |
Woolstone | 7 |