Woodchester, Gloucestershire

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Woodchester is a village in Gloucestershire

Other current and historical names

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

Woodchester in historic gazetteers

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

Woodchester, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Gloucestershire - par., 1188 ac., pop. 903; vil., 2½ miles SW. of Stroud by rail; P.O., T.O. Broadcloth, billiard cloths, and pins are manufactured. The church was rebuilt in 1863. There is an endowed school, a Dominican priory where candidates are educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood, and a Franciscan convent with orphanage. Woodchester House, Woodchester Park, and other residences, are in the par.

Woodchester in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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