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Gloucestershire 1835

Introduction - Description - Abbreviations - Guidelines - Surrounding counties - Maps - Home page

Introduction

Graphics linked from the maps section of this page produce a large print map of Gloucestershire in 1835, a tactile map with braille lettering, and a key to the tactile map. This page explains and describes the maps. Towns shown are parliamentary boroughs and polling places in 1835. The Description section says what is on the map. The Abbreviations section gives locations within the county. The Guidelines section gives a sequence of places along lines through the county. The page Gloucestershire and Parliament 1835 gives information on the parliamentary status of places. The Maps section has links to the maps, which are in pdf (Acrobat) format, and to a page describing the way to produce a tactile map with braille letters from the pdf file. On another page is a general introduction to this series of maps of the English counties which are intended to be accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The Genuki pages for Gloucestershire have more information about the county, its records, and all its towns and parishes.

Description

There is a solid circle at the top left of the map. The title follows it at the top of the map, which is the North.The county boundary is shown by a dotted line. The Chapman County Code GLS is in large letters in the bottom right corner of the map. Towns are large dots, with a 2 letter abbreviation of the town name nearby. Guidelines linking the towns are solid lines. A ten mile scale bar is in the bottom left corner. The sea coast of Gloucestershire is the Severn Estuary, at the South-West of the county, which is about 45 miles East to West, and about 50 miles North to South.

Abbreviations and locations

In the list below the two letter abbreviation is given first, then the place name, then the position on the map within the county.

BR Bristol - on the South-West boundary

CC Chipping Camden - in an area of the county jutting out at the North-East

CH Cheltenham - central

CI Cirencester - near the South-east corner

CO Coleford - Near the Western boundary of the county in the part just North of the Severn Estuary

DU Dursley - a third of the way across , just below the Severn Estuary

GL Gloucester - in the centre of the county.

NE Newnham - in the area North of the Severn Estuary

NO Northleach - near the Eastern border

NT Newent - A third of the way across the county, near the Northern boundary where it juts out

SO Sodbury (or Chipping Sodbury) - in the South-West of the county

ST Stroud - half way across the county, a third of the way up

TE Tewkesbury - half way along the Northern boundary

TH Thornbury - Half way along the Severn Estuary and to its right

WO Wotton under Edge - in the South-West of the county

Other places without parliamentary status in 1835

Stow on the Wold is near the Eastern county boundary, due East of Cheltenham, and North-East of Northleach

Guidelines

Guidelines are shown to link the places on the map. They are chosen to make it possible to describe the positions of places. In some cases the guidelines are roads, but generally they are arbitrary.

Five guidelines are shown.

Upper left of the county, above the Severn Estuary. From Coleford near the boundary, right to Newnham, up to Newent.
Top right. From Tewkesbury on the northern boundary, right to Chipping Camden.
Running across the middle right. From Gloucester in the centre, up and right to Cheltenham, down and right to Northleach, on right out of the county.
Lower right. From Cirencester bottom right of the county, left to Stroud, left to Dursley, a short distance down to Wotton under Edge.
A triangle in the bottom left. From Bristol on the southern boundary, up and right to Sodbury, up and left to Thornbury, down to Bristol.

Surrounding counties

Names of surrounding counties surrounding Gloucestershire are not shown on the map. The Severn Estuary comes into the county at the South-West. Going clockwise from the Severn, Monmouthshire and Herefordshire are to the West, Worcestershire to the North. Then going on from the North-east corner, come Warwickshire and Oxfordshire and Berkshire on the East. To the South-east is Wiltshire, and finally Somerset to the South is adjacent to the Severn estuary.

Maps

Graphic of Tactile map with braille names (pdf file)

Graphic of key in braille (pdf file)

Instructions for making a tactile map

Large print map (pdf file)

A single copy of this page can be made by or for any individual user. If you wish to make multiple copies or modifications, please contact David Hawgood - email david at hawgood dot com - I will normally give permission but I wish to know what use is being made of the maps. I also welcome comments.