Arlingham

Arlingham

St Mary's, the parish church
Arlingham
 Arlingham shown within Gloucestershire
Population 459 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSO7010
Civil parishArlingham
DistrictStroud
Shire countyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Gloucester
Postcode district GL2
Dialling code 01452
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentStroud
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Coordinates: 51°47′46″N 2°25′26″W / 51.796°N 2.424°W / 51.796; -2.424

Alexander Dennis Enviro200 on Stagecoach West service 113 from Arlingham to Gloucester outside the Red Lion pub.

Arlingham is a village and civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 410, increasing to 459 at the 2011 census. The parish occupies a peninsula on a sharp bend in the River Severn. The next parish to the east is Fretherne with Saul.

In Passage Road is a fish restaurant called the Passage Inn. Arlingham FC, based near the parish church, is in Stroud League Division Four. The church has some of the oldest stained glass windows in Gloucestershire.

A Ham class minesweeper was named after the village - HMS Arlingham.

The centre of the village is built around The Cross and includes the Red Lion, a large public house partly dating from the 16th century. The village shop closed in 2007.

History

Arlingham is on the course of a Roman road which crossed the Severn (by a ford or ferry) to Newnham. The ford was in use until the 19th century but a change in the course of the river in 1802 made the ford difficult. The ferry continued in use until after the Second World War. In 1810 the Severn Tunnel Company secured an Act of Parliament to build a tunnel under the river here, and there were various schemes for a bridge, most recently in 1950.[2]

The Domesday Book records the village, whose toponym means "Homestead of the Eorlingas (the tribe of Eorla)".[3]

Arlingham was an exclave of the hundred of Berkeley.[4]

References

  1. "Parish population 2011.Retrieved 31 March 2015".
  2. Victoria History of Gloucestershire: Newnham
  3. A.D.Mills, "Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names" (2nd Edition), p.12, OUP, 1997
  4. National Gazetteer, 1868

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