Apperley, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Apperley, a hamlet in Deerhurst parish, Gloucestershire, on the river Severn, 4 miles SW of Tewkesbury, under which it has a post office, and at which is the money order and telegraph office. It is very flat, and subject to frequent inundation. Apperiey Court stands on an eminence; it contains a large and unique collection of fossils and geological specimens. There is a chapel of ease.
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 | Deerhurst | |
Hundred | Westminster | |
Poor Law union | Tewkesbury |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Apperley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Apperly, with Whitefield)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Apperley 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)