Hawkesbury is a hamlet and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England. The hamlet, consisting of a few cottages around a triangular green, lies west of Hawkesbury Upton, off the A46 road.
The civil parish includes Hawkesbury itself, the larger village of Hawkesbury Upton and the hamlets of Dunkirk, Petty France and Little Badminton. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,235,[1] increasing to 1,263 at the 2011 census. Prior to 1991, what is now the Hillesley and Tresham parish in Stroud District formed the northern part of the parish.
The parish is in Cotswold Edge electoral ward, which stretches south to Tormarton.
The Cotswold Way passes the two settlements and north of Hawkesbury, just east of the Cotswold Way, is a slim tower, the Somerset Monument (picture on the right).
- ^ "2001 census Neighbourhood Statistics". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2009.