Hill End, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Hill End, formerly extra-parochial, now a parish in Gloucestershire, 6 miles E of Bishop's Castle.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Hill End from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hill-End)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Hill End 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.