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51°44′N2°32′W / 51.73°N 02.53°W / 51.73; -02.53 Coordinates: 51°44′N2°32′W / 51.73°N 02.53°W / 51.73; -02.53

Allaston is a village in Gloucestershire, England, now forming part of the town of Lydney.

Gloucestershire County of England

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.

Lydney town in Gloucestershire, UK

Lydney is a small town and civil parish in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the west bank of the River Severn, in the Forest of Dean and is 16 miles southwest of Gloucester as the crow flies. The town has been bypassed since 1995 by the A48 road. The population was about 8,960 in the 2001 census, reducing to 8,766 at the 2011 census.

Allaston was mentioned in the Domesday Book, when it was part of Bledisloe Hundred.

Domesday Book 11th-century survey of landholding in England as well as the surviving manuscripts of the survey

Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states:

Then, at the midwinter [1085], was the king in Gloucester with his council .... After this had the king a large meeting, and very deep consultation with his council, about this land; how it was occupied, and by what sort of men. Then sent he his men over all England into each shire; commissioning them to find out "How many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what land the king himself had, and what stock upon the land; or, what dues he ought to have by the year from the shire."

Bledisloe Hundred

Bledisloe was an ancient hundred of Gloucestershire, England. It comprised the ancient parishes of


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