Two Mile Hill, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Two-Mile-Hill, an ecclesiastical parish in St George parish, Gloucestershire, 2½ miles NE of Bristol. It has a post and money order office under Bristol; telegraph office, Kingswood. It was constituted in 1845. Population, 7175. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £288 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church, dedicated to St Michael, was built in 1848, and contains several stained glass windows. There is also a mission church. There are Baptist, Free and Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.

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 parish registers for the Diocese of Bristol are available online at Ancestry, in association with Bristol Archives.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Two Mile Hill from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Two Mile Hill 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.