Kingswood, Cotswolds

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Kingswood
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire
The Boundary House, Kingswood - geograph.org.uk - 367375.jpg
The Boundary House, Kingswood
Location
Grid reference: ST746920
Location: 51°37’34"N, 2°21’59"W
Data
Population: 1,290  (2001)
Post town: Wotton-under-Edge
Postcode: GL12
Dialling code: 01453
Local Government
Council: Stroud
Parliamentary
constituency:
Stroud

Kingswood is a village in Gloucestershire, or technically speaking in a detached part of Wiltshire[1] locally situate in Gloucestershire, sitting south-west of Wotton-under-Edge, on the edge of the Cotswolds. It had a recorded population of 1,290 in 2001.

Kingswood Abbey was a Cistercian abbey on the northeast edge of the village. The abbey was founded in 1139 by William of Berkeley in accordance with the wishes of his uncle, Roger II of Berkeley, and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern.[2] All that survives today is the 16th century gatehouse, which is under the care of English Heritage.

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References

  1. [1], scroll to "Historical Geography"; ref. I. Gray & E. Ralph, Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester (1963)]
  2. Archives Hub profile: Kingswood Abbey