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Bledisloe Hundred

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Bledisloe was an ancient hundred of Gloucestershire, England. It comprised the ancient parishes of

  • Alvington
  • Awre
  • Lydney
  • 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.

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    Bledisloe Hundred Wikipedia


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