Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire
Hawkesbury is a hamlet and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. The hamlet, consisting of a few cottages around a triangular green, lies west of Hawkesbury Upton, off the A46 road.
The civil parish includes Hawkesbury itself, the larger village of Hawkesbury Upton and the hamlets of Dunkirk, Petty France and Little Badminton. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,235,[1] increasing to 1,263 at the 2011 census. Prior to 1991, what is now the Hillesley and Tresham parish in Stroud District formed the northern part of the parish.
The parish is in Cotswold Edge electoral ward, which stretches south to Tormarton.
The Cotswold Way passes by the two settlements.
History
Hawkesbury was a rural parish in
Religious sites
The Church of St Mary was built in the 12th century. It is a Grade I listed building.[7]
Monument
There is a monument (the '
References
- ^ "2001 census Neighbourhood Statistics". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
- ^ http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=769560&word=NULL Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-1872
- ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50983&strquery=gloucestershire#s3 A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
- ^ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Hawkesbury/Gaz1868.html The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868
- ^ http://www.hawkesburyhistory.com/brief_history/index.htm Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine "Hawkesbury History: A Brief History of Hawkesbury"
- ^ http://www.hawkesburylocalhistorysociety.co.uk/windmill.html Hawkesbury Local History Society,"Hawkesbury Upton’s Mill"
- ^ "Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin". Historic England. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
51°35′19″N 2°19′50″W / 51.58859°N 2.33049°W
External links
- http://www.hawkesburyhistory.com/ Archived 1 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine