Horfield, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Horfield, a village and a parish in Bristol parliamentary borough, Gloucestershire. The village is 2 miles NNE of Bristol, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bristol. The parish comprises 1314 acres; population of the civil parish, 8202; of the ecclesiastical, 2912. It is governed by a local board. The headquarters of the 28th regimental district (Gloucestershire Regiment) are situated here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £272 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
| Hundred | Berkeley | |
| Poor Law union | Clifton |
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 Horfield from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Horfield 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.