Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in . It comprises part of the , part of the valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brockworth Court and Prinknash Abbey.

Manor estate
Photo: Sharon Loxton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Tudor house in the village of , , England. Dating from the 16th century, it is a Grade II* listed building.

Church
is a Roman Catholic monastery in the Vale of Gloucester in the Diocese of Clifton, near the village of . It belongs to the English Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation, which is itself part of the worldwide Benedictine Confederation.

Library
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gloucester and Cheltenham.

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is the county town of in West Country. A major attraction of the city is Cathedral, which is the burial place of King Edward II.

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is an historic spa town in , which started its development in the early 1700s with the discovery of healing waters. It became very popular after the visit of King George III in 1788, and developed further.

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is at the heart of the Five Valleys in the . It is in , . There's many fine, beautiful and interesting things to see but it's not "pretty" in the way that similar sized towns in the Cotswolds or Gloucestershire are.

Gloucestershire

Latitude
51.8333° or 51° 50′ north
Longitude
-2.1667° or 2° 10′ west
Population
623,000
Elevation
413 feet (126 metres)
Abbreviation
“GLS”
Open location code
9C3VRRMM+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323593
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2648402
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gloucestershire” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غلوسترشير”
  • Belarusian: “Графства Глостэршыр”
  • Bulgarian: “Глостършър”
  • Chinese: “格洛斯特郡”
  • French: “Gloucestershire”
  • German: “Gloucestershire”
  • Hebrew: “גלוסטרשייר”
  • Hindi: “ग्लॉस्टरशायर”
  • Japanese: “グロスタシャー”
  • Korean: “글로스터셔 주”
  • Latin: “Glocestriensis comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Glosteršīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Glosteršyras”
  • Marathi: “ग्लॉस्टरशायर”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gleawcesterscīr”
  • Persian: “گلاسترشر”
  • Portuguese: “Gloucestershire”
  • Russian: “Глостершир”
  • Serbian: “Глостершир”
  • Spanish: “Gloucestershire”
  • Thai: “กลอสเตอร์เชอร์”
  • Ukrainian: “Глостершир”
  • Urdu: “گلوسٹرشائر”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Gaerloyw”
  • Western Panjabi: “گلوسسٹرشائر”
  • Yiddish: “גלאסטערשיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “告羅士打郡”

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