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Items in Gloucestershire taken from Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904) (results page 1)


Gloucestershire, a west midland county of England, which touches Warwick in the centre of the country, and extends SW. to the estuary of the Severn; it presents three natural and well-defined districts known as the Hill, formed by the Cotswold Hills in the E.; the Vale, through which the Severn runs, in the centre; the Forest of Dean (the largest in England) in the W.; coal is wrought in two large fields, but agricultural and dairy-farming are the main industries; antiquities abound; the principal rivers are the Wye, Severn, Lower and Upper Avon, and Thames; Bristol (q.v.) is the largest town.

Population (1907) 600,000

From Nuttall Encylopædia, 1907

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Overview map of Gloucestershire, England
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Gloucestershire; England