Hawkesbury

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Hawkesbury is a hamlet in South Gloucestershire

Parish/Community: Hawkesbury
Unitary Authority: South Gloucestershire
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 51°34'48"N 2°20'17"W
Eastings/Northings: 376672, 186854
OS Grid: ST766868
Mapcode Local: GBR 0N0.X9N
Mapcode Global: VH95N.FK91

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Hawkesbury within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Hawkesbury in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Hawkesbury.-- par., S. Gloucestershire, 4m. NE. of Chipping Sodbury, 9770 ac., pop. 1948; P.O.

Hawkesbury in the Domesday Book

A village in Grimboldestou hundred, in the county of Gloucestershire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Pershore St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Pershore
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Pershore
- Taxable Value: 17 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £16 in 1066; £10 in 1086
- Households: 18 villagers; 25 smallholders; 2 slaves; 7 freedmen
- Plough Teams: 5 lord's ploughs; 15 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Woodland: 2 leagues
- Mills: 3, value 19 shillings

British Place Names

Hawkesbury, South Gloucestershire

Hawkesbury is a hamlet in South Gloucestershire

Hawkesbury in historic gazetteers

Hawkesbury in the Domesday Book