Hillesley and Tresham

{{Short description|Civil parish in Gloucestershire, England}}

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Hillesley and Tresham is a civil parish in the Stroud District of Gloucestershire, England. It had a population of 591 according to the 2001 census, decreasing to 391 at the 2011 census.{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124602&c=GL12+7RD&d=16&e=62&g=6427937&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427709942449&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|accessdate= 30 March 2015}} The parish contains the villages of Hillesley and Tresham. The Lyvett (Levett) family, an Anglo-Norman family prominent in Sussex, were lords of the manor of Hillesley in 12th and 13th centuries.[http://www.hawkesburylocalhistorysociety.co.uk/walks21-30.html Hawesbury Local History Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815103847/http://www.hawkesburylocalhistorysociety.co.uk/walks21-30.html |date=2009-08-15 }} The family also held Boxwell, Chipping Sodbury and other places in Gloucestershire.[https://books.google.com/books?id=BuMrAAAAIAAJ&dq=inquisitions+and+assessments+lyvett+sodbury&pg=PA269 Inquistions and Assessments relating to feudal Aids, Gloucestershire, Great Britain Public Record Office, 1900]

The parish was formed in 1991 from part of the Hawkesbury parish in the Northavon district of Avon, which was transferred to Stroud District in Gloucestershire at the time.[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1991/uksi_19910271_en_1.htm The Avon and Gloucestershire (County Boundaries) Order 1991] Between 1935 and 1971, as part of Hawkesbury parish, Hillesley and Tresham formed part of Sodbury Rural District in Gloucestershire.{{Cite web |title=View map: Ordnance Survey, Diagram of Gloucestershire showing Administrative Boundaries - Administrative Areas revised: 11/11/1... - Half-Inch to the mile, England, Wales. Administrative |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241242742 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=maps.nls.uk}}