Elmbridge, Gloucester
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Elmbridge is a suburb of
Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West England, South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean ...
centred from the city centre.


Extent

It is south of
Longlevens Longlevens, originally Longleavens, is a suburb of Gloucester, in Gloucestershire, England. It developed from a farmstead during the twentieth century, the name may be based on the old Roman name Colonia Glevensis, or the name could be based ...
and northwest of
Barnwood Barnwood is a suburb and former civil parish in the city of Gloucester, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It lies about east of the centre of the city. Barnwood was originally a small village on the Roman roads in Britannia, Roman r ...
from which it is separated by a thin strip of commercial buildings and the raised, tree-lined Bristol Temple Meads to Birmingham New Street railway. Most of its other borders are arterial, partially built-up roads and it centres on a sub-arterial road, Elmbridge Road and two lesser feeder residential roads.


Amenities

It has two schools: Elmbridge Primary School and
Sir Thomas Rich's School Sir Thomas Rich's School is a grammar school with academy status for boys and girls in Longlevens, Gloucester, England, locally known as "Tommies". It is one of 7 grammar schools in Gloucestershire. Founded as the Blue Coat Hospital, it b ...
. It also has a general practice clinic, convenience stores, and three bus services which are run by
Stagecoach West Stagecoach West is a bus operator providing services in Gloucestershire, Bristol, Swindon, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, North Somerset and Herefordshire, in the West of England, and Monmouthshire in the South-East of Wales. The company is a subsidia ...
. Old Richians Rugby Club was at first limited to alumni from Sir Thomas Rich's Grammar School and competes in a regional league in a city that hosts the nationally and internationally competing main team:
Gloucester Rugby Gloucester Rugby are a professional rugby union club based in the West Country city of Gloucester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. The club was formed in 1873 and since 1891 has played its home matches ...
. Elmbridge has a local information website.


Gloucester City Council

Representatives are two elected councillors, up for election every four years. The area in terms of
civil parishes in England In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
is no longer "parished", meaning only one council is contributed to (by Council Tax) and serves the area. The ward boundaries are similar to the popular, strong-boundaries definition as currently drawn, and are drawn or reconsidered every 8 years so the vote each potential voter of Gloucester has equal power, that is, is properly apportioned.


History and other names

Longlevens took in all but a southern strip of the area, in terms of the historical bounds and today's Church of England parish. However its name and status before 1932 was an old manor but more officially, was the southern part of
Wotton St Mary Without Wotton may refer to: Places *Wotton, Barbados * Wotton, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England * Wotton, Quebec, Canada *Wotton, Surrey, England **Wotton House, Surrey, Grade II listed building *Wotton-under-Edge, town in Gloucestershire, England ...
, as it remains in the Church of England called, but which shed its final 865 northern acres to set up another parish, Innsworth in terms of the secular (Civil) and Ecclesiastical separate, sometimes today confused, parish entities. The southern strip falls in the north-east of the town (before the 11th century possibly single parish of St Owen and separate abbey church and holdings) of Gloucester, but since an early date in the long history of the church of St Catharines, part of that parish which variously pulsated in size.http://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.867&lon=-2.22 Church of England - the parish of St Catharine's Church, London Road, Gloucester (boundary map) The church, closer to the town centre than Elmbridge, takes in part of 12th century St. Oswald's church, which had been accounted a royal free chapel, had probably provided a place of worship for the people living liberty under the Priory (Abbey) of Gloucester from its beginnings and took the tithes.'Gloucester: Churches and chapels', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4, the City of Gloucester, ed. N M Herbert (London, 1988), pp. 292-311 republished at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol4/pp292-311, University of Portsmouth and others By the 12th century chapels had been built in those parts of the liberty outside the town. St. Oswald's parish, as defined in the mid 14th century, comprised the northern suburb next to the priory, Brook Street, the house of the Carmelite friars, and Hyde to the east of the town, and parts of Longford and Twigworth to the north; parts of Kingsholm also in the mid 16th century. The parish and church were renamed St. Catherine after the Dissolution, although the former name was frequently used. The church was served by a curate in 1536 and by a vicar in 1542. The church of Longlevens being beyond the northern boundary and all housing being post-Georgian, reflects the fields which comprised Elmbridge and which the townsfolk of Gloucester used to work to support their markets, abbey and livelihoods.


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