Place:Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England

Alt namesSanhersource: Domesday Book (1985) p 114
Coordinates51.917°N 2.25°W
Located inGloucestershire, England
Tewkesbury (district), Gloucestershire, Englanddistrict municipality in which it has been located since 1974
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Sandhurst is a village just outside Gloucester, England, but part of Tewkesbury Borough.

The River Severn is the border between Sandhurst and the neighbouring parish of Maisemore.

A 19th century description

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Sandhurst from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"SANDHURST, a parish, with a straggling village, in the district and county of Gloucester; near the river Severn, 3 miles N of Gloucester [railway] station. It has a postal letter-box under Gloucester. Acres: 2,227. Real property: £5,507. Population: 549. Houses: 117. The property is much subdivided. Wallsworth Hall is the seat of Capt. De Winton. Brickmaking is carried on; and many salmon are caught. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £310. Patron: the Bishop of [Gloucester and Bristol]. The church is Norman, and was restored and enlarged in 1858. Charities, £25."

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