Bulley

This article is about the village in England. For other uses, see Bulley (disambiguation).

Bulley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Churcham, in the Forest of Dean district, in Gloucestershire, almost 7 miles (11 km) west of the city of Gloucester and about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Churcham. In 1931 the parish had a population of 134.^[1]

Bulley
St Michael and All Angels parish church
Bulley Location within Gloucestershire
OS grid reference	SO761196
Civil parish	Churcham
District	Forest of Dean
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Gloucester
Postcode district	GL2
Dialling code	01452
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Forest of Dean
List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51.8758°N 2.3476°W / 51.8758; -2.3476

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of St Michael and All Angels has been a dependent chapelry of St Andrew's parish church, Churcham since at least AD 1100.^[2] Both St Andrew's and St Michael's are now members of the Forest Edge group of churches.^[3]

St Michael's building is Norman.^[4] A Perpendicular Gothic window on the south side of the nave is a fifteenth-century addition.^[5] In 1886 the building was restored under the direction of the architect Sidney Gambier-Parry.^[4] The church is a Grade I listed building.^[5]

Secular history

Bulley has had a long association with Churcham. When a parish school was founded for Churcham and Bulley in 1856 it was built at Bulley.^[6] Under the Local Government Act 1894 Bulley was made a separate civil parish, but on 1 April 1935 it was merged with Churcham.^[7][8]