Discover a carefully compiled view of Gloucester’s past, compressed and updated to the year 1803.
This edition presents a clear, fact-driven portrait of the county, combining place names, geography, and history into a practical reference for readers and researchers.
The book frames the county’s story with method and purpose. It gathers the modern and ancient parish names, documents field distances, and notes soil and landscape to aid map and reference work. It also adds sections on antiquities, botany, minerals, and fossils, alongside biographical sketches of notable locals and accounts of landholding through the ages. A detailed account of church property and taxation history helps place local religious life in broader context.
- What you’ll examine: how boundaries, parishes, and manors changed over centuries.
- How to read the landscape: notes on soils, topography, and the natural world as part of local history.
- People and property: biographical highlights and the evolution of land ownership, from Domesday to later records.
- Reference essentials: a county map, lists of names, and sources cited for further study.
Ideal for readers of local history, genealogy, and county-level research who want a practical, reference-friendly overview of Gloucester from its early records to the early 19th century.