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Gloucestershire

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Gloucestershire [ˈglɒstəˌʃɪə -ʃə]
n
(Placename) a county of SW England, situated around the lower Severn valley: contains the Forest of Dean and the main part of the Cotswold Hills: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire (part of Avon county from 1974 to 1996). Administrative centre: Gloucester. Pop. (excluding South Gloucestershire): 564 559 (1996 est.). Area (excluding South Gloucestershire): 2643 sq. km (1020 sq. miles) Abbreviation Glos
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Noun1.GloucestershireGloucestershire - a county in southwestern England in the lower Severn valley
England - a division of the United Kingdom


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He had had some idea of resorting to the workhouses for the night if hunger pressed him too closely, but some of these were closed and others converted into temporary hospitals, and one he came up to at twilight near a village in Gloucestershire stood with all its doors and windows open, silent as the grave, and, as he found to his horror by stumbling along evil-smelling corridors, full of unburied dead.
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