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Horton Road

street in Gloucester, England

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ63442736 ↗
Source-derived summary

Horton Road is a street in the City of Gloucester, England. It is the location of Wotton House, Horton Road Hospital, and the former Horton Road Stadium. It runs from London Road in the north to Metz Way in the south.

Wotton House was built around 1707 for Thomas Horton.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Horton Road” as street in Gloucester, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Horton, Road and street.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1707—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Horton, Road and street providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Horton Road”, the useful work is to connect “street in Gloucester, England” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q63442736. Authority coordinates are 51.866, -2.227. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1707.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Horton Road”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Horton Road primary sources, Horton Road archive and Horton research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Horton Road”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Horton Road” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.