in 1851 the St Catherines Census district of Gloucester City is described as P.R.O. Reference # HO 107/1961 Part of the Parish of St. Catherine beginning At Home the Priory Gardens, Part of Half Street, Water Street, Saint Catherine Street, Deans Walk within the Borough, Saint Catherines Nap, Park Street, and the South side of Hare Lane and Pitt Street. so it is the region of Gloucester to the north of the Cathedral in Kingsholm. It is also a full church Parish ! "ST. CATHERINE, a parish partly within the bounds of the city of Gloucester, and partly in the upper and middle divisions of the hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, in the county of Gloucester, 1 mile to the N. of Gloucester. It includes the hamlet of Longford St. Catherine's." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)