Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRUMBALDS ASH

GRUMBALDS ASH, a hundred in Gloucester; around Chipping Sodbury, and contiguous to Wilts. It is cut into two divisions, lower and upper; the former containIng Chipping Sodbury parish, nine other parishes, and part of another; the latter containing Alderley parish, and nIne other parishes. Acres of the l. div., 16, 417; of the u. div., 25, 497. Pop. of both, 9, 738. house, 2, 935.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire Ancient County
Place: Grumbalds Ash

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