Maugersbury
| Maugersbury | |
| Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 First house in Maugersbury | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP199252 |
| Location: | 51°55’31"N, 1°42’40"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 149 (2001) |
| Post town: | Cheltenham |
| Postcode: | GL54 |
| Dialling code: | 01451 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cotswold |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
The Cotswolds |
Maugersbury is a village in Gloucestershire, less than a mile south-east of the market town of Stow-on-the-Wold and approximately eighteen miles east of Cheltenham
Maugersbury stands within the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 149.
History
The town is said to have originated as an Iron Age fort on its defensive hill top position. Indeed, there are many similar forts in the area, and Stone Age and Bronze Age burial mounds are also common.[1]
Maugersbury is located less than a mile from Stow-on-the-Wold, which was originally called Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward (possibly Edward the Martyr). During Saxon times it is likely that Maugersbury was the primary settlement of the parish, before Stow was built as a marketplace by the Normans in 1107 AD, to be nearer the cross roads.[1] Maugersbury is listed as Malgeresberiæ in the Domesday Book of 1086.[2]
The Maugersbury Enclosure Bill was passed in 1766,[3] and later the village was the location of the Stow on the Wold Union Workhouse.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A History of the County of Gloucester - Volume 6 pp 142-165: Parishes: Stow-on-the-Wold (Victoria County History)
- ↑ Mills, A. D.: Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-19-280074-4
- ↑ Journal of the House of Lords volume 31: 1765-1767
