In 1327 only three people at Elmbridge were assessed for the subsidy, and by the later 18th century the settlement comprised only the ancient manor house of Elmbridge Court, south-east of the road. A cottage north of the road was the only other dwelling at Elmbridge in the mid 19th century. A small settlement had grown up at Elmbridge (formerly Telbridge or Elbridge), east of the Horsbere brook on the Gloucester-Cheltenham road, by the mid 12th century when it included a chapel. A bridgewright living there in the early 13th century was evidently responsible for maintaining bridges there by virtue of the land he held.
Elmbridge manor passed to the de la Mare family and was held jointly by Robert de la Mare (d. 1382) and his wife Maud who survived him. In 1394 Maud's daughter William de la Mare and son-in-law John Roach quitclaimed their rights in the estate to Roger Pirton. He or another Roger Pirton did homage for the manor in 1426 and died in 1453, having granted it to feoffees. His widow Elizabeth married John Bradston and in 1455 they granted the manor for the term of her life to William Nottingham, to whom Walter Grey and his wife Margaret quitclaimed rights in it in 1467. Nottingham held the manor with other feoffees, including John Dodyng to whom Thomas Aleyn and his wife quitclaimed an interest in it in 1457. Elmbridge manor was bought in 1487 by Richard Poole, husband of his widow Elizabeth when held by William Nottingham, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. After Poole's death in 1517 Elmbridge manor descended with Sapperton, from the mid 16th century together with Pirton manor in Churchdown, and in 1622 Henry Poole sold Elmbridge and Pirton to Elizabeth Craven, widow of Sir William Craven.
Hucclecote, which was formerly a hamlet in the ancient parish of Churchdown, lies ESE. of Gloucester. Its main settlement grew up from the city's central crossroads on Ermin Street, the Roman road between Gloucester and Cirencester. Most of Hucclecote lies at over 30 m. on the Lower Lias clay, on which there are patches of gravel or sand; in the north-west at Elmbridge the land falls to 15 m. The land is generally flat, save in the north where the slopes of Churchdown Hill, an outlier of the Cotswolds rising to 154 m., are formed by successive strata of Marlstone and the Upper Lias. Quarrying on the hill had started by 1453. Drainage was principally by two streams flowing north-westwards across the hamlet, in the centre the Horsbere brook, presumably that called Huccle brook in 1486, and in the south the Wotton brook. Woodland, once a dominant feature, measured a league by ˝ league in 1086.
A mill had been built at Elmbridge by the early 13th century. In 1236 John of Elmbridge and his wife Alice granted it to Walter, son of Walter of Banbury. The mill, which has not been found recorded after 1347, evidently stood upstream from the Cheltenham road. Withygun Mill, mentioned in 1320 and 1480, was apparently some way below the road where a meadow of the same name, once part of Down Hatherley manor, was included in the Elmbridge estate in 1574. The millward living at Noke in 1327 may have worked it or Pitt Mill, recorded from 1399 on a site downstream and north of the village and presumably the mill belonging to the archbishop of York in 1086 and 1340, was always a corn mill.
In 1086 there were 2 ploughteams on the demesne of the archbishop of York's Hucclecote estate. That estate was later administered with the archbishop's lands in Churchdown and by 1399 the demesne had been leased, with customary tenants, including several in Hucclecote, holding small shares known as pennyland. Since 1086, the vineyard belonging to the archbishop in the later 12th century was at Noke and by 1506 had become a pasture. In 1538 the Churchdown estate was leased for 21 years to six husbandmen, including three Hucclecote men, and in the mid 17th century the Hucclecote demesne was held by a tenant for £10 a year. Elmbridge comprised 2 ploughlands in 1220. The demesne of Elmbridge manor was leased with Elmbridge Court as one farm by 1478, and in 1630 was extended at 218 a. In 1086 there were 11 villani and 5 bordars working 11 teams on the archbishop's Hucclecote estate. By 1399 the archbishop had commuted the labour services of the customary tenants holding yardlands, half-yardlands, and fardels on his Churchdown estate but he could still require them to perform bedrips and make hay in Meanham, his meadow by the Severn on the north side of Gloucester.
Elmbridge Court, which was on an ancient moated site, was occupied as a farmhouse by 1478. The house was possibly partly rebuilt in the 16th century or the early 17th, and in 1652 had several outbuildings, all within the moat and including two milkhouses above which were six lodging rooms and three corn lofts. By 1769 outbuildings had been erected beyond the moat. The rectory of Hucclecote, which included the tithes of Hucclecote, Wood Hucclecote, and Noke, belonged to St. Oswald's Priory, Gloucester, and under a lease of 1498 was farmed by John Lewis. Land near Wood Hucclecote owned by St. Oswald's Priory in 1316 was presumably held with a tenement called the New House in 1498. Although said to be in Hucclecote, the house stood in Upton St. Leonards to the south. In 1542 it was settled with the priory's other rectories on the dean and chapter of Bristol cathedral, (fn. 140) who treated it as part of the rectory of Churchdown. The farmer of Churchdown rectory granted a lease of a house in Hucclecote and of the Hucclecote, Wood Hucclecote, and Noke tithes in 1598 to Richard Bishop and a lease of the Elmbridge tithes in 1768 to John Allen, whose right to take milk tithes was confirmed in 1773.