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Barnwood
Cheltenham
Chipping Sodbury
Cirencester
Clifton
Dursley
Gloucester
Hempsted
Hucclecote
Matson
Northleach
Painswick
Stow on the Wold
Stroud
Thornbury
Westbury
Winchcomb

Gloucestershire Poor Law Unions and Workhouses

Gloucestershire comprises the following Poor Law Unions, Bristol, Cheltenham, Chepstow, Cirencester, Clifton, Dursley, Gloucester, Kingswood, Newent, Northleach, Sodbury, Chipping, Stow on the Wold, Stroud, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Thornbury, Uley, Warmley, Westbury on Severn, Wheatenhurst and Winchcombe

Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy

p 255 J - Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867
With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of 
insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates.

Gloucester
  MALE FEMALE TOTAL
Bristol 58 97 155
Chipping Sodbury 3 6 9
Cirencester 4 5 9
Clifton 42 59 101
Dursley 5 8 13
Northleach 0 3 3
Stroud 13 26 39
Tetbury 0 1 1
Tewkesbury 4 8 12
Thornbury 4 8 12
Source: From PP 1867/68 Vol XXXI pp 1-301 Twenty Second Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Submitted by Alan Longbottom

Records

Gloucester Record Office
Clarence Row
Alvin Street
GLOUCESTER
GL1 3DW
Tel:- 01452 425295

Bristol Record Office
‘B’ Bond Warehouse
Smeaton Road
Bristol
BS1 6XN
Tel: 0117-922 4224
Fax: 0117-922 4236
E-mail: bro@bristol-city.gov.uk

 



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