Alstone, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Alstone, a township and a chapelry in Gloucestershire, belonging to the parish of Overbury, in Worcestershire, 2 miles S of Beckford station on the M.R., and 4½ NW of Winchcombe. Post town, Tewkesbury; money order office. Beckford; telegraph office, Beckford railway station. Acreage, 626; population, 62. The living is a curacy, united to the vicarage of Overbury, in the diocese of Worcester. The church was restored in 1880.
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 | Cheltenham | |
| Hundred | Cheltenham | |
| Poor Law union | Winchcomb |
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 Alstone from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Alstone 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.