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Gloucester

English county, Old English Gleawceaster, from Latin Coloniae Glev (2c.), from Glevo, a Celtic name meaning "bright place" (perhaps influenced by Old English gleaw "wise, prudent") + Old English ceaster "Roman town" (see Chester).

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Gloucester, MA -- U.S. city in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 30273
Housing Units (2000): 13958
Land area (2000): 25.963479 sq. miles (67.245098 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 15.531852 sq. miles (40.227311 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 41.495331 sq. miles (107.472409 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26150
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 42.624015 N, 70.675521 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 01930
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Gloucester -- U.S. County in New Jersey
Population (2000): 254673
Housing Units (2000): 95054
Land area (2000): 324.718263 sq. miles (841.016405 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.201439 sq. miles (31.601580 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 336.919702 sq. miles (872.617985 sq. km)
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.752778 N, 75.136197 W
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Gloucester, NJ
Gloucester County
Gloucester County, NJ
Gloucester -- U.S. County in Virginia
Population (2000): 34780
Housing Units (2000): 14494
Land area (2000): 216.611710 sq. miles (561.021730 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 71.385596 sq. miles (184.887838 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 287.997306 sq. miles (745.909568 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.359344 N, 76.509601 W
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Gloucester (disambiguation)

Gloucester is a city and the county town of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It may also refer to:

Gloucester

Gloucester is a city and district in southwest England, the county city of Gloucestershire. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the southwest.

Gloucester was founded in AD 97 by the Romans under Emperor Nerva as Colonia Glevum Nervensis, and was granted its first charter in 1155 by King Henry II. Economically, the city is dominated by the service industries, and has a strong financial and business sector, and historically was prominent in the aerospace industry.

Gloucester (UK Parliament constituency)

Gloucester is a constituency centred on the cathedral city and county town of the same name, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Richard Graham of the Conservative Party.

Gloucester (MBTA station)

Gloucester is a regional rail station on the Gloucester (Rockport) Branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail Newburyport/Rockport Line, located off Railroad Avenue and Washington Street in the downtown area of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The station consists of a single side platform serving the line's single track. The station has a mini-high platform, making it handicapped accessible.

Gloucester (provincial electoral district)

Gloucester was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada from the 1828 election of the 9th New Brunswick Legislature. It mirrored Gloucester County, and used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, divided up into five first past the post districts: Caraquet, Nepisiguit-Chaleur, Nigadoo-Chaleur, Shippagan-les-Îles and Tracadie.

Gloucester (Natchez, Mississippi)

Gloucester is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi.

Usage examples of "gloucester".

A lady in Gloucester who liked bullterrier crossbreeds wrote to say she might adopt me.

But, like Mary Bastholm before her, Lucy Partington disappeared from somewhere near a bus stop, although this time one on the Evesham road in Cheltenham rather than one on Bristol Road in Gloucester.

West suggested that some were in Gloucester and Cheltenham, others were further away in places where he and his wife had been on holiday, including Snowdonia.

He was going to Gloucester to rescue Mother Coddington from the clutches of the law.

All hope of catching up to Mother Coddington short of Gloucester faded as the weather worsened but Gilbert pushed on at dawn in spite of the storm.

Rosamond would hardly be recognised, she was so little known, but Mary had often visited Gloucester for the purpose of healing some sickness, or anointing some sore, while some of the monks had used her pots of herbage, and salves of the danewort and rue.

Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester, Follow Fluellen closely at the heels.

He holds his manor on the presentation of a clove of gilliflower at the court of Gloucester, and it was granted to his ancestors by John de Burgh, son of Hubert, the first Earl of Kent, and Justiciary of England.

Upton, he was too much frightened just before and after his leaving that place, to draw any other conclusions from thence, than that poor Jones was a downright madman: a conceit which was not at all disagreeable to the opinion he before had of his extraordinary wildness, of which, he thought, his behaviour on their quitting Gloucester so well justified all the accounts he had formerly received.

FARQUHAR And yet he might have borne it, had the weight Of governmental shackles been unclasped, Even partly, from his limbs last Lammastide, When that despairing journey to the King At Gloucester Lodge by Wessex shore was made To beg such.

It embraced portions of the counties of Radnor, Montgomery, Salop, Worcester, and Gloucester, and touched upon that of Brecon.

They were apprehended and brought before the Duke of Gloucester, as Constable of England, at the Tolsey in the midst of the town.

At the said gate a band of west-country clothiers were setting out, hoping to lie the night at Witney, so as to make Gloucester on the morrow.

Rissington, and about the time when Mother Sweetbread was bearing food and clothing down the hill, had come by way of Sherborne to the great heath which lined the highway between Witney and Gloucester, the main road to the west.

So Boy Jim went down to the George, at Crawley, under the charge of Jim Belcher and Champion Harrison, to train for his great fight with Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, whilst every club and bar parlour of London rang with the account of how he had appeared at a supper of Corinthians, and beaten the formidable Joe Berks in four rounds.