Redmarley D'Abitot
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{{infobox UK place
| country = England
| type = Village and civil parish
| coordinates = {{coord|51.980532|-2.3604|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Redmarley D'Abitot
| static_image_name = Phone box on Hyde Park Corner, Redmarley D'Abitot - geograph.org.uk - 850484.jpg
| static_image_caption = Hyde Park Corner, Redmarley D'Abitot
| constituency_westminster = Forest of Dean
| post_town = Gloucester
| postcode_district = GL19
| postcode_area = GL
| dial_code = 01531/01452
| os_grid_reference = SO752314
| shire_district = Forest of Dean
| shire_county = Gloucestershire
| region = South West England
| population = 756
}}
File:Church House, Redmarley - geograph.org.uk - 849769.jpg
Redmarley D'Abitot is a civil parish and village in the Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, South West England. In addition to the village of Redmarley, the civil parish also includes the settlements of Lowbands, Haw Cross, Playley Green, Kings Green and Durbridge.[http://www.thelocalchannel.co.uk/redmarleyparish Welcome to Redmarley D'Abitot] At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 705,{{cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=794863&c=redmarley&d=16&e=15&g=448233&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1284296038509&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=Redmarley D'abitot CP (Parish) |year=2001 |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=12 September 2010}} increasing to 756 at the 2011 census.
Although now in Gloucestershire, Redmarley was in Worcestershire until 1931.{{cite book |last=Youngs |first= Frederic A Jr. |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England |year=1979 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=0-901050-67-9 |page=184}}
History
{{see also|History of Worcestershire|History of Gloucestershire}}
The name Redmarley comes from 'woodland clearing with a reedy pond',
from the Old English words hrëod and lëah.Mills, A. D. (1991): A Dictionary of English Place-Names, Oxford University Press. An alternative cod-derivation has been suggested as from the local red heavy clay or marl.[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/RedmarleydAbitot/index.html Redmarley D'Abitot at genuki.com] The difficulty with this explanation is that the word marl entered the language many centuries later. D'Abitot is thought to come from Urse d'Abetot, who was Sheriff of Worcestershire and who held the manor in 1086.Domesday Book
Sometimes a circumflex is placed on the 'o' of d'Abitot, but this usage has been criticised. As Eric Smith says: "It is to be regretted that the Gloucestershire County Council placed a circumflex in the signs on the A417. This is emphatically incorrect, both historically and linguistically, Abitot is a word of (Germanic) Anglo-Saxon origin."Warde, Eric (2007): Prosperity to this Parish, A History of Redmarley D'Abitot
=Great Domesday=
The King, William the Conqueror, received a report on Redmarley D'Abitot in the Domesday Book of 1086 though it would have been a very small part of his nationwide review of tax assessments. People mentioned include: Aethelric; Alvred; Alweard; Ansgot; Azur; Beorhtric son of Aelfgar; Beorhtwine; Cyneweard daughter of Sigrefr; Dodda; Durand; Ealdraed, etc.
=Battle of Redmarley=
Governance
The village falls in the 'Redmarley' electoral ward. This ward stretches south to Pauntley. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 1,856.{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/redmarley-e05004360#sthash.fWSl4f5S.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date= 28 March 2015}}
Famous residents
- Alice Roberts was living with her widowed mother, Julia, at Hazeldine House in Redmarley at the time of her engagement to the composer Edward Elgar.
- Barbara Cartland's mother, Polly Scobell, grew up at the Down House and as a small girl Barbara was a regular visitor from Pershore.John Pearson (Henry Cloud), Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979
- Corporal Thomas Priday, the first British soldier to lose his life in the Second World War, lived here.
Distances from Redmarley
- 3 miles north of Newent
- 5 miles south of Ledbury
- 10 miles north west of Gloucester
- 16 miles south-east of Hereford
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File:The Causeway, Redmarley D'Abitot - geograph.org.uk - 850481.jpg|The Causeway
File:Redmarley D'Abitot, Old house opposite the church.jpg|Old building
File:The Village Hall, Redmarley D'Abitot - geograph.org.uk - 368591.jpg|Village hall
File:Redmarley D'Abitot War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 886929.jpg|War memorial
File:Fine-looking house, Redmarley - geograph.org.uk - 849716.jpg|Once an inn
File:Market gardening land near Redmarley - 1 - geograph.org.uk - 1711539.jpg
File:Snow covered farmland, near Redmarley - geograph.org.uk - 1726381.jpg
File:Exit from Pauntley Court - geograph.org.uk - 850781.jpg
File:Poppy invasion, Ryton - geograph.org.uk - 1335295.jpg
File:Meadow cranesbill - geograph.org.uk - 1335397.jpg
References
External links
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- [http://www.redmarley.org.uk Redmarley D'Abitot village website]
- [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43157 "A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3" at british-history.ac.uk]
- [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/RedmarleydAbitot/index.html Redmarley D'Abitot at genuki.com]
- [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wrag44/redmarley/redmarley.htm "Redmarley D'Abitot, Worcestershire, Parish Register Transcripts" transcribed and generously provided by William Good]
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