Maugersbury

Maugersbury is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. Situated less than a mile south-east of the market town of Stow-on-the-Wold and approximately 18 miles (29 km) east of its post town, Cheltenham, Maugersbury lies within the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. At the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 149.[1]

Maugersbury
First house in Maugersbury
Maugersbury Location within Gloucestershire
Population	149 (2001 Census)
Civil parish	Maugersbury
District	Cotswold
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHELTENHAM
Postcode district	GL54
Dialling code	01451
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	The Cotswolds

History

The town is said to have originated as an Iron Age fort on its defensive hill top position. Indeed, there are many similar forts in the area, and Stone Age and Bronze Age burial mounds are also common.[2]

Maugersbury is located less than a mile from Stow-on-the-Wold, which was originally called Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward (possibly Edward the Martyr). During Saxon times it is likely that Maugersbury was the primary settlement of the parish, before Stow was built as a marketplace by the Normans in 1107 AD, to be nearer the cross roads.[2] Maugersbury was listed as MalgeresberiAe in the Domesday Book of 1086.[3][4]

The Maugersbury Enclosure Bill was passed in 1766,[5] and later the village was the location of the Stow on the Wold Union Workhouse.[6]

Governance

Maugersbury is in the Beacon-Stow ward of the district of Cotswold, represented by councillors David Penman and Merryl Phillips, members of the Conservative Party.[7][8] Maugersbury is part of the constituency of The Cotswolds, represented at parliament by Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.[9] It was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020.

Footnotes

1. "Area: Maugersbury CP (Parish) — Parish Headcounts", Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics, retrieved 13 August 2011
2. 'Parishes: Stow-on-the-Wold', in C.R. Elrington (ed.), A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 6 (V.C.H., London 1965), pp. 142-165.
3. Mills, p. 354
4. "Documents Online — Image Details", DocumentsOnline, The National Archives, retrieved 13 August 2011
5. Journal of the House of Lords volume 31: 1765-1767
6. "Stow on the Wold", Rossbret Institutions Website, Rossbret, 2008, archived from the original on 21 October 2008, retrieved 10 July 2010
7. "Member's Details — Mr David Penman", cotswold.gov.uk, Cotswold District Council, 2008, retrieved 13 August 2011
8. "Member's Details — Mrs Merryl Phillips", cotswold.gov.uk, Cotswold District Council, 2008, retrieved 13 August 2011
9. "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP", Official site, retrieved 13 August 2011

Sources

• Mills, A. D. (1998), Dictionary of English Place-Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280074-4