Haresfield is a village near
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 ...
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Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...
, England around one mile from Junction 12 of the
M5 motorway and between the villages of
Brookthorpe,
Harescombe and
Hardwicke. The population of the village taken at the
2011 census was 378.
The Mount, a moated site to the west of the current village may have been the site of the earliest settlement. The church was built nearby in the mid-12th century, while the village developed to the east.
Haresfield today is a largely residential village with a pub, The Beacon Inn. The church, which is dedicated to St Peter, is apart from the village itself and accessed by a public right of way on a private drive. Haresfield Court (originally Moat Place) was built c.1676 and enlarged in 1869 by the local architect Francis Niblett. It was converted to flats in the 1980s. The village was formerly served on the
Bristol and Gloucester Railway by
Haresfield railway station.
A tune 'Haresfield' by
John Dykes Bower 1905-1981 appears in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard #511 for the hymn 'The great Creator of the worlds' by
Francis Bland Tucker, American hymnwriter 1895-1984.
References
Villages in Gloucestershire
Stroud District
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