East Dean, Gloucestershire

East Dean is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mitcheldean, in the Forest of Dean district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

East Dean
East Dean is located in Gloucestershire
East Dean
East Dean
Location within Gloucestershire
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°47′N 2°33′W / 51.783°N 2.550°W / 51.783; -2.550

East Dean became a township in 1844 and abolished as a civil parish on 1 April 1953.[1]

The Forest of Dean was an extra-parochial area in the St Briavels hundred of Gloucestershire. It was without the usual parish structure until the West Dean and East Dean townships were formed in 1844.[2] For poor relief, East Dean was grouped into the Westbury-on-Severn Poor Law Union and was included in the Westbury-on-Severn rural sanitary district.[2] Following the Local Government Act 1894, East Dean became a civil parish in the East Dean and United Parishes Rural District, which was renamed East Dean Rural District in 1935.

The population of the parish was as follows:[3]

Year 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951
Population 12,629 14,622 14,588 14,594 15,010 14,678 WW2[4] 14,152

It occupied an area of 12,487 acres (50.53 km2) in 1881 and 12,860 acres (52.0 km2) in 1951.[3]

In 1935 a new civil parish of Lydbrook was created from part of its area and transferred to West Dean Rural District.

The civil parish was abolished in 1953 and split to create the new parishes of Cinderford, Drybrook and Ruspidge. Part of the former area was transferred to the existing parishes of Awre, Littledean and Mitcheldean.[2] The area of the former parish is now within the Forest of Dean district.

References

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  1. ^ "Relationships and changes East Dean Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Vol. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.
  3. ^ a b Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, East Dean (parish) population. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
  4. ^ The census was suspended for World War II
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