Bledisloe Hundred

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

History[edit]

Formerly also known as Blideslow and Blideslau.^[1] 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.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Rudge, Thomas (1803). The History of the County of Gloucester Compressed and Brought Down to the Year 1803. Harris. pp. 113–117.
^ N M Herbert A P Baggs; A R J Jurica (1996). C R J Currie (ed.). "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.

External links[edit]

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)

[1] Rudge, Thomas (1803). The History of the County of Gloucester Compressed and Brought Down to the Year 1803. Harris. pp. 113–117.

[2] N M Herbert A P Baggs; A R J Jurica (1996). C R J Currie (ed.). "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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