East Dean, Gloucestershire

East Dean
East Dean
	East Dean Location within Gloucestershire
Civil parish	Mitcheldean;
District	Forest of Dean;
Shire county	Gloucestershire;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
	List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51°47′N 2°33′W / 51.783°N 2.550°W

East Dean was a township (nominally so) and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mitcheldean, in the Forest of Dean district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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^[a]	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.

Notes

^ The census was suspended for World War II

References

^ "Relationships and changes East Dean Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, East Dean (parish) population. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

External links

Forest of Dean: Local government and public services, A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996)

[4] The census was suspended for World War II

[1] "Relationships and changes East Dean Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 8 December 2022.

[Youngs-2] Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Vol. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.

[vision_pop-3] Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, East Dean (parish) population. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

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