Broughton Gifford is a village and civil parish about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Melksham in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Norrington Common and The Common.
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage of High Meadow, Gloucestershire and later Firle Place, Sussex, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Whig for 33 years between 1717 and 1754.
Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford was a great magnate based in the west of England. He was hereditary Constable of England and Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
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 on an original field name "Long Elevens". This could have related to a long field about eleven acres therefore this could have been adopted as a name for the hamlet, first recorded in 1750, as part of the estate of Gloucester Cathedral. One of the oldest roads is 'The Avenue', which is shown on old maps as a number of farm cottages built in the 1850s. The population of Longlevens was 9,532 at the time of the 2011 Census.
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1738. He faked his own death in 1738 and spent the rest of his life in prison.
Ashton Gifford House is a Grade II listed country house in the hamlet of Ashton Gifford, part of the civil parish of Codford in the English county of Wiltshire. Ashton Gifford House is mentioned in the Wiltshire edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides. The house was built during the early 19th century, following the precepts of Georgian architecture, and its estate eventually included all of the hamlet or tithing of Ashton Gifford. The house sits in the Wylye valley, part of the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Daniel Lysons (1762–1834) was an English antiquarian and topographer, who published, amongst other works, the four-volume Environs of London (1792–96). He collaborated on several antiquarian works with his younger brother Samuel Lysons (1763–1819).
Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, The Magnificent, of Berkeley Castle and of Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, was an English peer and an admiral. His epithet, and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family, was coined by John Smyth of Nibley (d.1641), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of "Lives of the Berkeleys".
The Juxon Baronetcy, of Albourne in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 28 December 1660 for William Juxon. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1740.
Richard Berkeley (1579–1661) of Stoke Gifford and Rendcomb both in Gloucestershire, England, served as a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1614.
John Blanch, of Wotton Court, near Gloucester and Eastington, Gloucestershire, was a clothier and English politician.
Charles Coxe, of Lincoln's Inn and Rodmarton and Lower Lypiatt, Gloucestershire, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1722.
Francis Eyles, of Soho Square, London, and Earnshill, near Taunton, Somerset, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1742.
John Ivory-Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1741.
John Symes Berkeley (1663–1736) of Stoke Gifford near Bristol was an English Member of Parliament.
Matthew Ducie Moreton, 1st Baron Ducie (1663–1735) of Moreton, Staffordshire, and Tortworth, Gloucestershire, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1720 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ducie.
Matthew Ducie Moreton, 2nd Baron Ducie of Tortworth, Gloucestershire, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1721 and 1735 winning by-elections at four separate constituencies but never winning at a general election. He vacated his seat when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Ducie.
Townsend Andrews of Coulston, Wiltshire, was a British official and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1737.
Albert Estcourt was a builder in Gloucestershire, England, in the 19th century who with his brother, and later on his own, constructed a number of notable buildings in the county and across southern England.
Thomas Chester of Almondsbury and Knole, near Bristol, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1763.
