Newnham, Gloucestershire

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Newnham is a village in Newnham , Gloucestershire

Other current and historical names

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

Newnham in historic gazetteers

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

Newnham.-- town and par. with ry. sta., Gloucestershire, on river Severn, 11 miles SW. of Gloucester and 114 miles from London, 1937 ac. pop. 1455; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Newnham was formerly a borough, sending 1 member to Parliament. It is situated on the high road from Gloucester to Chepstow, and has a fair industry in tanning, and trade in timber, bark, coal, slate, &c. There is a line of railway to the coal and iron mines of the Forest of Dean.

Newnham in the Domesday Book

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

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