Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLEDISLOE

BLEDISLOE, a tything and a hundred in Gloucester. The tything is in Awre parish, 2 miles SE of Newnham. The hundred contains the parishes of Awre, Alvington, and Lydney. Acres, 16,741. Pop., 4,784. Houses, 877.


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

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Feature Description: "a tything and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Bledisloe

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