Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRIGHTWELLS-BARROW

BRIGHTWELLS-BARROW, a hundred in the E of Gloucester. It adjoins Oxford and Berks; is 9½ miles long; and contains Fairford parish, ten other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 36,790. Pop., 8,020. Houses, 1,708.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Brightwells Barrow

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