Hempsted is a suburban village and former civil parish, on the edge of Gloucester in the county of Gloucestershire, England.

The churchyard contains the chest tomb of John Freeman, a Royalist officer, shot at the siege of Gloucester in 1643.

[3] During the Middle Ages a persecuted Augustinian monastic order came out of Wales and settled at Hempsted with the blessing of the City authorities.

[6] Some areas of the village are connected to Gloucester and Alney Island, as well as Quedgeley by Segregated Bicycle Path.

The club were forced to leave by the 2007 United Kingdom floods before a return home in 2020 to a new Meadow Park stadium.