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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Gloucestershire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Gloucestershire (pronounced [ˈglɔːstɜːʃɜː]; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in southwest England.
		When considered as a ceremonial county, Gloucestershire borders the preserved county of Gwent in Wales, and in England the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire (including Swindon).
		The area of South Gloucestershire was made part of the administrative County of Avon in 1974.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Gloucestershire (451 words)

	GENUKI: Genealogical research information for Gloucestershire, England
		Ralph Bigland visited many of Gloucestershire's graveyards in the late 18th Century, and recorded the contents of the Memorials he found in a series of 4 volumes, available in the Gloucestershire Record Office.
		Several Gloucestershire churches are featured on Phil Draper's Church Crawler Website, devoted to news and information about churches in the UK, and worldwide, where the emphasis is on "less-well-known churches that do not appear on the tourist trails of the world".
		Names from Musters of the Gloucestershire (North and South) Militia 1781-82 are available for purchase on floppy disk or microfiche through Family History Indexes (the link to Militia Musters is part way down the page).
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/GLS (6015 words)

	Saints of July 17
		His sister Quendreda (Cynefrith or Quoenthryth) bribed his tutor, Ascebert, to murder him in the forest of Clent so that she could claim the throne.
		Ascebert did, but when the body was discovered and enshrined at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, all kinds of marvels occurred at his grave.
		He was highly honored in England during the Middle Ages as a saint and martyr, and still is venerated at Gloucester and Winchcombe, where his relics are enshrined (Encyclopedia, Roeder).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0717.htm (3402 words)

	Gloucestershire Neighbours Links
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	www.glosgen.co.uk /links/nearlink.htm (442 words)

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