Bulley, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Bulley, a parish in Gloucestershire, 1½ mile NW of Oakle Street station on the G.W.R., and 5 miles WNW of Gloucester, which is the post town. Acreage, 963; population, 166. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Churcham, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is ancient and small; the chancel arch and the S doorway are Norman. The register dates from 1541.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bulley St. Michael | |
Hundred | the Duchy of Lancaster | |
Poor Law union | Westbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1541.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is an edifice of stone in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a small low western turret containing one bell; the chancel arch and south doorway are good examples of Norman work: the church was closed in 1876, and remained in a dilapidated condition until 1886, when it was thoroughly restored, and the chancel and vestry rebuilt at a cost of £900, and reopened June 6, 1887: the cost of the new porch and entrance gate was defrayed by the late William Philip Price esq.: there are 84 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bulley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bulley (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bulley 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.