Breadstone, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Breadstone, a township in Berkeley parish, Gloucestershire, 2 miles NE of Berkeley. Acreage, 1202; population, 120.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Civil parish | Berkeley | |
Hundred | Berkeley | |
Poor Law union | Thornbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael
The iron church of St. Michael, at Breadstone, was opened December 19th, 1876, and has 100 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Breadstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Breadstone)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Breadstone are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.