Gorsley and Kilcot explained

Gorsley and Kilcot
Settlement Type:Civil parish
Coordinates:51.925°N -2.4583°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:England
Subdivision Name1:Forest of Dean
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Gloucestershire
Subdivision Type3:Region
Subdivision Name3:South West England
Seat Type:Status
Seat:Parish
Government Type:Parish Council
Leader Name:Forest of Dean
Parts Style:para
P1:Kilcot, Gorsley
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Total:273
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Note:[1]

Gorsley and Kilcot is a civil parish forming part of the district of the Forest of Dean in the English county of Gloucestershire.

The single parish of Gorsley and Kilcot came into being in 2000; until then it had been part of Newent civil parish. The parish, which contained 166 households in 2011,[2] borders on the county of Herefordshire and is bisected by the B4221 road.

Adjoining parishes are Oxenhall to the north; Newent to the east; Aston Ingham to the south; Linton to the west; and Upton Bishop to the north-west. Of these, Oxenhall and Newent are in the Forest of Dean district, the others are in Herefordshire.

The main settlements are Gorsley and the hamlet of Kilcot. The similarly named settlement of Little Gorsley is across the county border in Herefordshire.

Kilcot is the home of The Kilcot Inn.[3] The name Kilcot has historically been given as Killicote (1283), Kyllicote, Kylcote (1281), Killecote, Kylcot, and Kulkotte (1307) [4] It has been suggested that the name originates from "Cyllingcocotan" meaning the cots (dwellings) of the people of Cylla.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil parish population 2011. 28 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133011/https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123807&c=GL18+1NP&d=16&e=62&g=6427378&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427545155911&enc=1 . 2 April 2015 .
  2. Web site: Gorsley & Kilcot Parish Council. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110711113205/http://www.gorsley.com/parishcouncil.html. 11 July 2011. Internet Archive.
  3. Web site: "Kilcot Inn" at kilcotinn.com . 31 December 2012 . 10 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121110012835/http://www.kilcotinn.com/contact.html . dead .
  4. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030976504/cu31924030976504_djvu.txt "Full text of "Place-names of Gloucestershire; a handbook" by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (1913) at archive.org
  5. http://www.hawkesburylocalhistorysociety.co.uk/index.php/articles/origins-of-the-place-name-hawkesbury/ "Origins of the Place-name Hawkesbury" at awkesburylocalhistorysociety.co.uk