Great Washbourne

Great Washbourne
Great Washbourne is located in Gloucestershire
Great Washbourne
Great Washbourne
Location within Gloucestershire
OS grid referenceSO987344
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTewkesbury
Postcode districtGL20
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
52°00′29″N 2°01′12″W / 52.008°N 2.02°W / 52.008; -2.02

Great Washbourne is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dumbleton, in the Tewkesbury district, in Gloucestershire, England, 6 miles (10 km) east of Tewkesbury and 6 miles (10 km) west of Evesham. In 1931 the parish had a population of 65.[1]

History

Washbourne was mentioned in the Domesday Book, in the form Waseborne. The name is from the Old English wæsse (genitive wæssan), meaning "swamp", and burna, meaning "stream", and so means "stream with land subject to flooding". "Great" was added much later (first recorded in the 17th century), to distinguish the place from Little Washbourne.[2]

Washbourne was an ancient parish. In the Middle Ages the manor was held by Tewkesbury Abbey. Before the Dissolution of the monasteries it was known as Abbot's Washbourne, and for a while afterwards as King's Washbourne, to distinguish it from its neighbour, Knight's or Little Washbourne, which was a hamlet of Overbury in Worcestershire.[3]

The parish became a civil parish in 1866, but on 1 April 1935 the civil parish was abolished and merged into the parish of Dumbleton.[4][3]

References

  1. ^ "Population statistics Great Washbourne AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  2. ^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Washbourne, Glos", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557
  3. ^ a b Elrington, Christopher, ed. (1965). "Parishes: Great Washbourne". Victoria County History. A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6. pp. 232–237. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Relationships and changes Great Washbourne AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 6 December 2022.

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