Hempsted
Hempsted is a suburban village and part of the City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.
[edit] History
An ancient area of Gloucester, Hempsted was just outside the City. The fine Norman church of St. Swithun was built and paid for by Norman noblemen. During the middle ages a persecuted Augustinian monastic order came out of Wales and settled at Hempsted with the blessing of the City authorities. They founded Llanthony Secunda Priory and Hempsted became an estate of the priory. The church was extended with a new vestry and a west gallery was added as well as new pews and re-roofing to the design of G.V.Maddox of Monmouth in 1839.[1] Maddox died at the recory in Hempsted on 27 February 1864.[2]
[edit] Modern times
Today, Hempsted is best known[citation needed] for being a site of the Gloucester landfill site[3]. This site treats waste from all of Gloucester, much of Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Stroud and even receives waste from Bristol[citation needed].
[edit] References
- ^ 'Hempsted', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (1988), pp. 420-429. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42325 Date accessed: 19 January 2012.
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GkThQYLb3ZUC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=George+Vaughan+Maddox&source=bl&ots=DVXeDgssPW&sig=JUrsBMPcPjL_JISMfme6FsRBOJ0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0CwZT9a5FIje8QO8y-GTCw&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=George%20Vaughan%20Maddox&f=false
- ^ "Gloucestershire County Council - The History of Waste Management in Gloucestershire". Gloucestershire.gov.uk. 1992-08-07. http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3155. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
Coordinates: 51°51′N 2°16′W / 51.85°N 2.267°W
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