Maugersbury

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name= Maugersbury | country= England | region= South West England | static_image= First house in Maugersbury - geograph.org.uk - 451200.jpg | static_image_caption= First house in Maugersbury | label_position= bottom | area_footnotes=  | area_total_sq_mi=  | area_total_km2 =  | population = 149 | population_ref = (2001 Census) | os_grid_reference= | coordinates = {{coord|51.925|-1.712|display=inline,title}} | post_town= CHELTENHAM | postcode_area= GL | postcode_district= GL54 | dial_code= 01451 | constituency_westminster = North Cotswolds | civil_parish= Maugersbury  | london_distance=  | shire_district=Cotswold | shire_county=Gloucestershire | unitary_england= | website=  }} '''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 {{convert|18|mi|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.<ref name="Headcount" />

==History== The town is said to have originated as an Iron Age fort on its defensive hill top position. There are many similar forts in the area, and Stone Age and Bronze Age burial mounds are also common.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk" />

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.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk" /> Maugersbury was listed as ''MalgeresberiAe'' in the Domesday Book of 1086.<ref name="Mills" /><ref name="NatArc" />

The Maugersbury Enclosure Bill was passed in 1766,<ref>Journal of the House of Lords volume 31: 1765-1767</ref> and later the village was the location of the Stow on the Wold Union Workhouse.<ref name="rossbret" />

==Governance== Maugersbury is in the Stow ward of the Cotswold District Council, represented by Liberal Democrat Councillor Dilys Neill.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dilys Neill |url=https://meetings.cotswold.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=121 |publisher=Cotswold District Council |access-date=3 May 2021 |archive-date=3 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503142805/https://meetings.cotswold.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=121 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is part of the constituency of North Cotswolds,<ref>{{cite web|title=Location of North Cotswolds |url=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4201/location |website=parliament.uk|access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref> represented in parliament by Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/249/contact |website=parliament.uk|access-date=13 January 2025}}</ref> It was part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020.

==Footnotes== <references>

<ref name="Headcount">{{Citation | title = Area: Maugersbury CP (Parish) — Parish Headcounts | work = Neighbourhood Statistics | publisher = Office for National Statistics | url = http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=794790&d=16&e=15&g=447720&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=0&s=1313236003414&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 | accessdate = 13 August 2011 | archive-date = 12 September 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120912184608/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=794790&d=16&e=15&g=447720&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=0&s=1313236003414&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="Mills">Mills, p. 354</ref> <ref name="NatArc">{{Citation | title = Documents Online — Image Details | work = DocumentsOnline | publisher = The National Archives | url = http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7577270 | accessdate = 13 August 2011 | archive-date = 3 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210503142726/https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Bitter | url-status = live }}</ref> <ref name="rossbret">{{Citation|title=Stow on the Wold |work=Rossbret Institutions Website |publisher=Rossbret |year=2008 |url=http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/gloucs/stow_on_the_wold_workhouse.htm |accessdate=10 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021145208/http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/gloucs/stow_on_the_wold_workhouse.htm |archivedate=21 October 2008}}</ref> <ref name="british-history.ac.uk">[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp142-165 '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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421222007/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp142-165 |date=21 April 2019 }}.</ref>

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==Sources== {{Commons category|Maugersbury}} {{Refbegin}} *{{Citation | last = Mills | first = A. D. | authorlink = | title = Dictionary of English Place-Names | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-19-280074-4 | ref = Mills}} {{Refend}}

==External links== *[https://maugersbury.wixsite.com/parishcouncil Maugersbury Parish Council]

Category:Villages in Gloucestershire Category:Cotswold District Category:Civil parishes in Gloucestershire