Hillesley and Tresham

Hillesley and Tresham

Hillesley and Tresham is a civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. It had a population of 591 according to the 2001 census. The parish contains the villages of Hillesley and Tresham. The Lyvett (Levett) family, an Anglo-Norman family prominent in Sussex, were lords of the manor of Hillesley in 12th and 13th centuries. [ [http://www.hawkesburylocalhistorysociety.co.uk/walks21-30.html Hawesbury Local History Society] ] The family also held Boxwell, Chipping Sodbury and other places in Gloucestershire. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=BuMrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=inquisitions+and+assessments+lyvett+sodbury&source=web&ots=6eejrowx-v&sig=wFvZQJmUvfvW1wYpQ5EUkmDPzP8&hl=en Inquistions and Assessments relating to feudal Aids, Gloucestershire, Great Britain Public Record Office, 1900] ]

The parish was formed in 1991 from part of the Hawkesbury parish in the Northavon district of Avon, which was transferred to Stroud in Gloucestershire at the time. [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1991.old/Uksi_19910271_en_1.htm]

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