Great Washbourne
| Great Washbourne | |
| Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO987344 |
| Location: | 52°0’29"N, 2°1’12"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Tewkesbury |
| Postcode: | GL20 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Tewkesbury |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Tewkesbury |
Great Washbourne is a village in Gloucestershire, six miles east of Tewkesbury and six miles west of Evesham.
History
Washbourne is listed in the Domesday Book, in the form Waseborne. The name is from the Old English wæssan burna meaning "swamp" stream", which may indicate a stream over land subject to flooding. "Great" was added much later (first recorded in the 17th century), to distinguish the place from Little Washbourne.[1]
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.[2]
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References
- ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Washbourne, Glos", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557
- ↑ A History of the County of Gloucester - Volume 6 pp 232-237: Parishes: Great Washbourne (Victoria County History)
