Indexed as murage for Worcester in CPR (but also correctly).
GLOUCESTER 3832 2187. Borough 1086 (BF, p. 113). Mint before 924-939, 970s-1154. 1334 Subsidy £540.75. Roman colony. Probably a significant urban or defensive centre in the sixth and seventh centuries and then a political and ecclesiastical centre, with a mint from the early tenth century. It appears to have prospered in the later tenth and eleventh centuries, becoming the head of a shire by 1016. Described as a borough and civitas in Domesday Book; it had at least 300 burgesses. Just outside the city, there appears to have been a pre-Conquest royal residence at King’s Barton, Gloucestershire (q.v.) (otherwise known as Kingsholm) (C. Heighway, ‘Saxon Gloucester’ in J. Haslam ed., Anglo- Saxon Towns in Southern England (Chichester, 1984), pp. 359-83; BF, p. 113; Darby, p. 365). Market town c.1600 (Everitt, p. 471). Fair 1587, 24 Jun (Harrison, p. 394). See also VCH Gloucestershire iv, pp. 259-61. (Letters, S., 2003, Gazetter of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (Centre for Metropolitan History) online copy)