Cutsdean
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| shire_county = Gloucestershire
| shire_district = Cotswold
| region = South West England
| constituency_westminster = North Cotswolds{{cite web|title=Parliamentary 2024 Constituency Map for North Cotswolds|url=https://streetguide.co.uk/maps/parliament/2023/north-cotswolds |website=Streetguide|access-date=8 January 2025}}
| coordinates = {{coord|51|58|N|1|52|W}}
| static_image_caption = Church of St James at Cutsdean
| static_image_name = Church of St James at Cutsdean - geograph.org.uk - 846768.jpg
| postcode_district = GL54
| postcode_area = GL
| post_town = Cheltenham
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2015}}
Cutsdean is a rural village in the Cotswolds and smaller than average sized parish, a few miles east north-east of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and the same distance south-southeast of Evesham. The River Windrush runs through the village.
It can get so windy in the village that the locals call it “two coats Cutsdean”.
History
{{see also|History of Worcestershire|History of Gloucestershire}}
The key estates of this {{convert|1560|acre|km2|adj=on}} chapelry of Bredon parish,{{cite web | url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table/EW1911POP2_M5?u_id=10330828&show=DB | title=Vision of Britain | 1911 Census: Population tables 2 | Table 5 }} can be traced a generation or more further than typical, back to Anglo-Saxon England charters.{{cite book |last1=Hooke |first1=Della |title=Warwickshire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds |date=1999 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=9780851157436 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQk4WhsbQYkC&q=%22cutsdean%22+Anglo-Saxon&pg=PA45}} Its main estate and church were long possessions of the Worcester Priory,{{cite web |title=Parishes: Bredon Pages 279-292 A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp279-292 |website=British History Online |publisher=Victoria County History |accessdate=30 October 2019}} and were part of Worcestershire until 1931, when the detached part (exclave) status was resolved, and it was moved to Gloucestershire.{{cite web |title=Cutsdean Worcestershire |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9809 |website=A Vision of Britain Through Time |publisher=University of Portsmouth |accessdate=30 October 2019}} Its population was 116, across 30 households in 1901; both figures stood in 1911, unchanged.
River
{{main|River Windrush}}
File:Cotswold_pool_-_geograph.org.uk_-_235455.jpg
The west of the parish is marked by the Windrush. It has been briefly dammed, creating a tree-lined head of water, assisting the flow below in dry weather, also allowing for some algae which help to feed fish and de-nitrify the river in its rural, relatively headwater stage.
References
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- {{cite book|author=Mark Child|title=The Windrush Valley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15CIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|date=10 August 2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-3161-5|pages=29–}}
External links
- [http://cutsdeanparishcouncil.co.uk Cutsdean parish Council website]
{{Commons category-inline|Cutsdean}}
{{Coord|51|58|N|1|52|W|region:GB_type:city|display=title}}
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