Duckhole is a
hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
in
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England. Towns in the area include Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Thornbury, Filton, Patchway and Bradley Stoke, the latter three forming ...
in the west of England. Historically it was located in the
hundred
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In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
of
Lower Thornbury in the county of
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of Gl ...
and the name dates back at least as far as 1658, when it appeared in a parliamentary survey.
At the time of the
2011 United Kingdom census Duckhole consisted of just thirteen households with a total population of thirty-five. The hamlet lies in a rural setting a short distance to the west of
Lower Morton, near the town of
Thornbury and consists mainly of farmland and also a small number of cottages.
References
External links
Villages in South Gloucestershire District
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