Great Washbourne

Great Washbourne
Great Washbourne
Great Washbourne shown within Gloucestershire
OS grid reference SO987344
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Tewkesbury
Postcode district GL20
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Great Washbourne is a village in Gloucestershire, England, 6 miles (10 km) east of Tewkesbury and 6 miles (10 km) west of Evesham.

History

Washbourne was mentioned in the Domesday Book, in the form Waseborne. The name is from the Old English wæsse (genitive wæssan), meaning "swamp", and burna, meaning "stream", and so means "stream with land subject to flooding". "Great" was added much later (first recorded in the 17th century), to distinguish the place from Little Washbourne.[1]

Washbourne was an ancient parish. In the Middle Ages the manor was held by Tewkesbury Abbey. Before the Dissolution of the monasteries it was known as Abbot's Washbourne, and for a while afterwards as King's Washbourne, to distinguish it from its neighbour, Knight's or Little Washbourne, which was a hamlet of Overbury in Worcestershire.[2]

The parish became a civil parish in 1866, but in 1935 the civil parish was abolished and merged into the parish of Dumbleton.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Washbourne, Glos", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557
  2. 1 2 Elrington, Christopher, ed. (1965). "Parishes: Great Washbourne". Victoria County History. A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6. pp. 232–237. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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