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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bledisloe like this:
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.
Bledisloe is now part of FOREST OF DEAN District. Click here for graphs and data of how FOREST OF DEAN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bledisloe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bledisloe, in Forest of Dean and Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20804
Date accessed: 12th November 2025
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