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LOCAL STUDIES
The Trustees hope that the following information on local study centres and reference publications will help you with your enquiries and research on Cirencester, the town and its people, past and present. Feedback would be welcomed via the Contact Information page.
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Local Studies Centre in Cirencester Bingham Library, The Waterloo, Cirencester, GL7 2PZ. www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries. Tel. 01285 659813.
Local books are available on loan or for reference in the library only. Research opportunities include local directories; Cirencester parish registers (incomplete) for 1560-1925; International Genealogical Index for Gloucestershire; and 1841-1901 census available on line through the library network. The local weekly newspaper, the Wilts & Glos Standard, from 1837 to the present day is accessible on microfilm.
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Gloucestershire Archives. Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW. www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives. Tel. 01452 425295.
Parish records, directories, Ordnance Survey and parish/estate maps, documents, postcards, photographs. Online catalogue.Local studies material formerly held in Cirencester Bingham Library has been transferred to Gloucestershire Archives (see D10820 on their online catalogue). The collection, amassed by successive librarians at the Bingham Library, includes maps, deeds, documents, and photographs.
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Gloucestershire Family History Society. [New premises adjacent to Gloucestershire Archives] Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Glos, GL1 3AH. www.gfhs.org.uk. Tel. 01452 524344.
Resources for family historians, directories, census, BMD records. For the local Cirencester branch of the Family History Society see www.cirencester.co.uk/clubs.htm
A word of caution for all family and local historians: house numbers in Cirencester were changed c.1936/1937 - not all, but a significant number, so relatives may not have moved house, it was just their house number that changed.
Links with other local bodies include:
- Corinium Museum www.cotswold.gov.uk/go/museum
- Cirencester Archaeological & Historical Society website www.cirenhistory.org.uk
- Cirencester Civic Society website www.cirencestercivicsociety.org.uk
Books with local interest
These are arranged in chronological order of publication.
K.J. Beecham 1887 (reprinted 1978), History of Cirencester, Alan Sutton. (ISBN 0 904387 18 6)
W. St Clair Baddeley 1924, History of Cirencester
Richard Reece & Christopher Catling 1975, Cirencester: the Development and Buildings of a Cotswold Town, British Archaeological Reports 12
Alan McWhirr (ed) 1976, Archaeology and History of Cirencester, British Archaeological Reports 30 [contains a number of articles on Roman, medieval and post-medieval development of the town]
G.G. Loveridge 1977, Watermoor Through the Ages, Cirencester Replicas
Jean Welsford 1987, Cirencester: A History and Guide, Alan Sutton. (ISBN 0 86299 386 3)
Jean Welsford 1987, Cirencester In Old Photographs, Alan Sutton. (ISBN 0 86299 939 1)
Timothy Darvill & Christopher Gerrard 1994, Cirencester: Town and Landscape, Cotswold Archaeological Trust. (ISBN 0 9523196 0 8)
David Verey and Alan Brooks 1999, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1, The Cotswolds, (Cirencester pp. 243-282), Penguin Books (ISBN 0 14 071098 1)
Sue Emson and Michael Bull (eds) 2002, Cirencester, Ottakar's Local History Series, Ottakar's (ISBN 0 7524 2662 1)
David & Linda Viner 2004, Cirencester A Century Ago, the Bingham Legacy, Sutton Publishing. (ISBN 0 7509 3987 7)
Neil Holbrook (ed) 2008, Excavation and Observations in Roman Cirencester 1998-2007, Cotswold Archaeology, Cirencester Excavations VI (ISBN 978 0 9553534 2 0) [includes a review of archaeology in Cirencester 1958-2008, and an essay on Cirencester's historic buildings] .
For further information about Cotswold Archaeology and local archaeological projects and publication, see www.cotswoldarch.org.uk
New in October 2009:
- David & Linda Viner 2009, Cirencester Through Time, Amberley Publishing (ISBN 978 1 84868 043 2)
Latest update: October 2009
