Clapham was a district of the City of Gloucester that was developed from 1822 by George Worrall Counsel who built several hundred houses for artisans.Gloucester, 1720-1835: Topography. British History Online. Retrieved 18 April 2019.Bullock, Donald. (2012) The Legend That Was Clapham: All Good Things... 2nd edition. Gloucester: Wheatley Press. pp. 1-3. Gloucester, 1720-1835: Social and cultural life. British History Online. Retrieved 18 April 2019."The Growth of Gloucester 1820-1851: Tradition and Innovation in a County Town. PhD thesis, Evelyn A. Christmas, University of Leicester, 1989. p. 210. It included Worrall Street and Counsel Street, neither of which now exist.What’s beneath our feet? Gloucestershire Archives, 9 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2019. The area was redeveloped in the twentieth century and is now part of Kingsholm.Kingsholm Comprehensive Development Area. National Archives. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
See also Worcester Street
References
Further reading Eley, Harold. (1996) Clapham Tales: A Boyhood Account of Life in Clapham, Gloucester, During the 1930s and 1940s. Pickton Press.
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