Elberton, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Elberton, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire, near the river Severn, 3 miles SW of Thornbury station. Post town, Almondshury. Acreage, 1531; population, 144. Remains exist of a Roman camp of 2 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £207 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is Early English.
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 | Elberton St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Berkeley | |
| Poor Law union | Thornbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1763.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. John the Evangelist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Evangelist is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and a central embattled tower with pinnacles and spire containing one bell of early date: the chancel windows are all stained: there is a stone coffin in the south aisle, and hagioscopes in each of the tower piers; the entrance to the rood loft also remains: the church was thoroughly restored in 1858, and the tower in 1901 at a cost of £120: there are 200 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 Elberton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Elberton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Elberton 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.