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The following appear as names for Forest of Dean. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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DEAN | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
DEAN FOREST | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
DEAN FOREST OF | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
FOREST OF DEAN | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Forest of Dean. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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23UD | District/Unitary Authority | Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics) |
DEAN FOREST | Parish-level Unit (ExP) | 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
DEAN FOREST OF | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
FOREST | Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 778. |
FOREST NORTH | Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 779. |
FOREST OF DEAN | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) | |
District/Unitary Authority | Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics) | |
Parish-level Unit (ExP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 171. | |
FOREST SOUTH | Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 779. |
GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOREST OF DEAN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Forest of Dean, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Forest of Dean, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/17321/names
Date accessed: 26th April 2024