Elmstone Hardwicke   Victoria County History    C. R. Elrington
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this article  Citation Show another format:  'Parishes: Elmstone
Hardwicke', A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 8
(1968), pp. 50-60. URL: Date accessed: 11 March 2014. Add to my
bookshelf   (Min 3 characters)   The parish of Elmstone
Hardwicke lies mainly north-east of the Cheltenham-Tewkesbury
road, about 3½ miles north-west of Cheltenham. The ancient
parish is long and narrow in shape, and is 2,628 a. in area,
comprising the two civil parishes of Elmstone Hardwicke (1,745
a.) and Uckington (883 a.) (fn. 1) The two elements in the name
of the parish derive, it has been suggested, from two separate
settlements. (fn. 2) The name Elmstone is thought to have been
in use by 889 in the form 'Almundingtoun', (fn. 3) and the name
Hardwicke occurs separately in 1086. (fn. 4) The two elements
are not found together before 1378, (fn. 5) and not before the
16th century to describe the