Bledisloe Hundred
Bledisloe was an ancient hundred of Gloucestershire, England. It comprised the ancient parishes of
The hundred was named after the hamlet of Bledisloe, once a tithing of the parish of Awre and now a hamlet north of Lydney on the A48 road, where the hundred met. The meeting place was a mound known as Bledisloe Tump.
At the time of the Domesday Book the hundred included Awre manor, Bledisloe, Etloe, Purton and Nass. Alvington (previously a detached part of Herefordshire) and Lydney joined the hundred by 1221.[1]
References
- ↑ C R J Currie, N M Herbert (Editors), A P Baggs, A R J Jurica (1996). "Bledisloe Hundred". A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
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