Redmarley D'Abitot

Redmarley D'Abitot

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.980532
longitude= -2.3604
official_name= Redmarley D'Abitot
Council= Gloucesteshire
constituency_westminster= Forest of Dean
post_town= Gloucester|postcode_district = GL19
postcode_area= GL |dial_code= 01531/01452
os_grid_reference= SO752314
shire_district= Forest of Dean
shire_county = Gloucestershire
region= South West England

Redmarley D`Abitot, Gloucestershire is a civil parish and village lying within the Forest of Dean Local Authority District. In addition to the village of Redmarley, the civil parish also includes the settlements of Lowbands, Haw Cross, Playley Green, Kings Green and Durbridge. [ [http://www.thelocalchannel.co.uk/redmarleyparish Welcome to Redmarley D'Abitot ] ]

Although now in Gloucestershire, Redmarley was in Worcestershire until 1931. [ List of Rural Districts in England and Wales 1894 - 1930 ]

The name Redmarley comes from 'Woodland clearing with a reedy pond'. [Mills, A. D. (1991): "A Dictionary of English Place-Names", Oxford University Press.] The D'Abitot is thought to come from Urso d'Abitot, Sheriff of Worcestershire who held the manor in 1086. [Domesday Book ]

Sometimes a circumflex is placed on the 'o' of d'Abitot; as Eric Warde says [Warde, Eric (2007): "Prosperity to this Parish, A History of Redmarley D'Abitot" ] "It is to be regretted that the Gloucestershire County Council placed a circumflex in the signs on the A417. This is emphatically incorrect, both historically and linguistically, Abitot is a word of (Germanic) Anglo-Saxon origin."

Distances from Redmarley

*3 miles north of Newent
*5 miles south west of Ledbury
*10 miles north west of Gloucester

References

External links

[http://www.thelocalchannel.co.uk/redmarleyparish Redmarley local information]


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