906 (2011 Census) (parish, including Apperley and Deerhurst Walton)
OS grid reference
SO869295
District
Tewkesbury
Shire county
Gloucestershire
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
Gloucester
Postcode district
GL19
Dialling code
01452
Police
Gloucestershire
Fire
Gloucestershire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
Tewkesbury
Website
Apperley and Deerhurst
List of places
UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°58′N2°11′W / 51.96°N 2.19°W / 51.96; -2.19
Deerhurst is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Tewkesbury. The village is on the east bank of the River Severn. The parish includes the village of Apperley and the hamlet of Deerhurst Walton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 906,[1] the majority of whom live in Apperley.
The place-name is derived from Old English and means "deer-wood". It was spelt Deorhyrst in AD 804, Dorhirst in about 1050 and Derherste in the Domesday Book in 1086.[2]
^"Deerhurst". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
Deerhurst is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Tewkesbury. The village is on the east bank of...
Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario, is 215 km (133 Miles) north of Toronto in Ontario's Muskoka region, bordering the Algonquin Provincial Park....
Odda of Deerhurst (before 993 – 31 August 1056) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman active in the period from 1013 onwards. He became a leading magnate in 1051...
Droitwich, Camelford and Warwick. In 1697 he was made Viscount Deerhurst, of the hundred of Deerhurst in the County of Gloucester, and Earl of Coventry, with...
for Edmund had an alliance with some of the Welsh. On an island near Deerhurst, Cnut and Edmund, who had been wounded, met to negotiate terms of peace...
politics: the family and career of Odda of Deerhurst (Deerhurst Lecture 1996). Deerhurst: Friends of Deerhurst Church. ISBN 0-9521199-2-7. Williams, Ann...
Gwillimbury, and includes the communities of Bond Head, Coulson's Hill, Deerhurst, Dunkerron, Green Valley, Newton Robinson and Pinkerton. The current mayor...
on Water, about surfing, with Ken Bradshaw, Edward Coventry, Viscount Deerhurst; Waimea Bay has the largest ridable waves in the world, with 50 feet waves;...
of Coventry (died 1710), English peer Thomas Henry Coventry, Viscount Deerhurst (1721–1744), British Tory Member of Parliament Thomas Coventry (cricketer)...
1 mile (1.6 km) south of Deerhurst and 1⁄3 mile (0.5 km) east of the River Severn. It is the largest settlement in Deerhurst civil parish. In 2020 it...
children 12 November 1035 Shaftesbury Aged about 40 Son of Sweyn Treaty of Deerhurst Harold Harefoot 12 November 1035 – 17 March 1040 (4 years, 127 days) c...
hill, and one residential condominium. Other resorts on the lake include Deerhurst Resort and Hidden Valley Resort. There are two large islands on the lake...
brought to light. Most of the old market towns have parish churches. At Deerhurst near Tewkesbury and Bishop's Cleeve near Cheltenham, there are churches...
804 requests burial at Deerhurst. Leofwine d.c.1023 Father of Leofric, Earl of Mercia Odda d.1056 Built Odda's Chapel at Deerhurst for the soul of his brother...
"Mutt" Lange. Twain composed the song while working and performing at the Deerhurst Resort in Ontario, Canada. The song was featured in the 1996 film Twister...
Global Information
