GLOUCESTERSHIRE - 1897

242 MISERDEN. GLO UCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Freeman Jesse, builder, Camp Herbert Thomas, farmer, Wishanger Prosser David, farmer, Honeycomb

Goddard Wm. farmer, Sudgrove fann Heyden John, shopkeeper Reynolds .Alfred, New inn, Camp

Hawkins Fredk. Nathaniel, frmr.Camp Hunt John, jun. butcher, Camp Timms William,blacksmith i& assistant

Herbert Frederick, farmer Hunt John,sen.make,r & shopkpr.Camp ovel'seer

MORE'l'ON-IN-MARSH is a parish, small market together with the rental, is applied to this purpose. In

town and head of a petty sessional division, with a 1897 A. B. Freeman-Mitford esq. a.B. presented the

station on the Oxford and 'Worcester section of the Great town with a field of 7 acres, to be used as a recreation

Western railway, 7 mes south-east from Campden, 7 ground, in commemoration of the Queen's long reign.

south-west from Shipston-on-Stour, 16 south from Strat- .At the distance of about 2 miles on the London road is
ford-on-Avon, 29 north-east from Gloucester and 82 from a thick column, called the" Four Shire Stone," placed to

London, in the Eastern division of the county, upper mark the junction there of the counties of Gloncester,

division of the hundred of Westminster, Shipston-on- Oxford, Warwick and Worcester. .A.lgernon Bertram

Stour union and county conrt district, rural deanery of Freeman-Mitford esq. C.B. of Batsford Park, is lord of

Campden, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 934

Gloucester. The town consists chiefly of a very wide acres; rateable value, £5,474; the population in 18g1

street about half-a-mile in length, and is lighted with was 1,446.

gas by a company. The church of St. David is a. building Parish Clerk, Thomas Payne, jun.

of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,

of four bays, aisles, north porch and a western tower with Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Henry

pinnacles and lofty spire, u6 feet high, and containing Croome Randall, postmaster. Letters are delivered at

a clock and 8 bells: the east window is stained: the 6.30 & '8.15 a.m. & 12.55 p.m.; dispatched at II.5o

cburch was thoroughly restored in 1859-61, at a cost of a.m. (to Evesham only) 12 noon all parts, 12.45 p.ro.

£2,000, under the direction of Messrs. Poulton and West of England, 7 p.m. North & 7.40 p.m. to all

Woodman, architects, of Reading: in 1892-3 the church parts; sundays, dehvered at 8.15 a.m. .i. dispatched at
underwent extensive alterations, when the three galleries 6 p.m

were removed, the south aisle widened, the chancel ex- Wall Letter Box.-The Terrace, cleared at II.5o a.m. &

tended, and a chancel aisle built, the font being removed 6,4° p.m. week days only

to the western entrance; the total cost amounted to

about £1,000: the communion plate includes a chalice COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR MORETON PETTY

of silver, dated 1576: there are sittings for 600 persons. SESSIONAL DIVISION.

The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year Dugdale Jas. esq. Sezincot, Moreton-in-Marsh, chairman
1643; marriages, 1672. The living is a chapelry, for- Van Notten-Pole Sir eecil Pery bart. Todenham house,

merly annexed to the rectory of Bourton-on-the-Hill, but Moreton-in-Marsh

separated from that parish by Order in Council Sept. .Arnold Col. Stanley, Addlestrop house, Moreton-in-Marsh

27th, 1887, and annexed to Batsford, joint net yearly Freeman-Mitford .A.lgernon Bertram C.B., D.L. Batsford

value £433, including 95 acres of glebe, with residence, park, Moreton-in-Marsh
in the gift of A. B. Freeman-Mitford esq. and held since Knox Major Vicesimus, Spring hilI, Moreton-in-Marsh

1887 by the Rev. Spencer John Jones M.A. of Worcester Moore John N. esq. Warneford house, Moreton-in-Marsh

College, Oxford. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan Rushout .A.lgemon St. George William Rushout esq.

chapels. Two cemeteries, near the London road and Bourton house, Bourton-on-the-Hill

each about one acre in extent, were formed in 1867, one Clerk to the Magistrates, F. a. Hancock, Shipston-

for the members of the Church of England and the other on-Stour
for Dissenters, with mortuary chapels, at a cost of £650; Petty Sessions are held at the Redesdale Hall every fourth

both are under the control of Moreton-inMarsh Parish monday at 10.30 a.m. The following places are in-

Council. The ground for the Church of England ceme- eluded in the petty sessional division :-Batsford,

tery was given by the Earl of Redesdale and that for Bourton-on-the-Hill, Daylesford, Evenlode. Lower Lem.

the Nonconformists by Mr. Henry G. Dusby. The ington, Moreton-in-Marsh & Todenham

ltedesdale Public Hall, erected in 1887, is a building of PUBLIO ESTABLISHMENTS.

stone and oak, seating about 400 people. The curfew Cemeteries, Thomas Sharer Barkes, clerk to the burial
tower, still standing in the centre of the town, contains board

-a. bell which was regularly rung as a curfew until the Cottage Hospital. John N. Moore M.R.O.S.Eng.; Rabert

year 1860, b uht0ties,l noI.wD only used hini hcase of fiirlel. 1: At the Edward Burnet Yell M .B. ,C.M.& Mark Sty1e L.R.0.P.
e Hart a room w c can st ue seen, Lond. medical officers; Samuel F. Hunston, hon. sec.;
Whit

King Oharles I. slept, July 2nd, 1644. The Mann Insti- Miss Rebecca Home, matron

tute, erected in 1891 by Miss Mann, in memory of her County Police Station, John Dennis, sergeant, &; I con-
father, a native of Moreton, is a building of stone, com- stable

prising a large hall and a working men's club, with read- Moreton-in-Marsh Fire Brigade, Dr. R. E. B. Yelf, sec. ;
ing, billiard and a library of about 500 volumes. A fair S. F. Hunston, capt. &; 12 men

for cattle is held on the second Tuesday in every month, Mann Institnte, F. Ponlter, librarian
and is well attended. The market day is on ~ Tuesday R d diP bli Hall G
G'bb tk
and a corn market is held weekly. The Cottage Hospital, e es a e u c ,eorge 1 S, care a er

established and erected in 1873, from the designs of Mr. PUBLIO OFFICERS.

<Jallaway, architect, of Batsford, contains eleven Certifying Factory Surgeon. Mark Style L.R.C.P.Lond

beds; the building, which is of stone, was enlarged in Clerk to the Parish Council, Thomas Sharer Barkes

1879, when a board room was added at a cost of £1,000, Medical Officer & Public Vaccinater, Moreton District,

being a bequest by the late Mr. Sands Cox; the number S hipston-on-Stour Union, Robert Edward B. Yelf
of patients for 1896 was 123. At this hospital is pre- M.B., O.M

served the chair. with cushion and footstool, used by Collector of Poor Rates. Thomas Payne

Charles 1. at his trial; it was lent for exhibition at the Superintendent Registrar for Shipston District. J. E.

"Stuart Exhibition," held in London in .889. In con- Irons. Shipston-on-Stour
nection with the main building is an infectious hospital
available for 6 patients. The charities include a bequest SOHOOLS.
by Thomas 8ims, of London, ef £50, invested in Con- National. (boys), built in 188r, for 216; average attend-
sols, and the interest given to seven poor families on St.
ance, 72 ; Walter Johnson, master
Thomas' day; £200 invested by Mrs. Henrietta Hooper, National (girls), built in 1810, for 160 girls; average

in fulfilment of the wish of her husband, John Jeffries attendance, 61; Mrs. Johnson, mistress

Hooper, of this town; the interest is distributed in fuel British, built in r842. for 120 children; average attend-

or warm clothing to 10 poor personA on the 3r d of Decem- ance, 33 boys, 16 girls & 18 infants; F. Poulter, mast
ber yearly: £100 bequeathed by John Shirley, in 1859; Infants', built in 1851 , for 100 children; average attend-
the annual. interest is laid out and distributed to the ance, 66; Miss Kate Sharwood, mistress

necessitous poor. In 1820 an allotment from the com- RAILWAY STATION.

mon lands was granted, to supply the poor with fuel, Richard Sampson, station master

from which 11. yearly rental of £30 is derived. .A sum RAILWAY CARRIERS.
of about £700 has been ebtained also from the sale of

gravel from the said allotment, and the interest thereof, R. T. Smith &; Co. (F. W. Orisp, agent)

PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Cooper William Fletche1' Mrs. Croxdale villa

Baguley John Davis Frances C. Church street Freeman Miss
Baker Reginald Langford
Barkes Thomas Sha.rer Davis Miss George Mll'S
Caliss Mrs. Devonshire terrace
Clarke Mrs Epps Edward Gillett Joseph Octavius

Francis Rev. William E. (Congrega- Gray George Herbert

tional), Devonshire terrace G:ray James Edward

DIREC'rORy.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. MORTON VALENCE. 243:

Gray Thos. H. Devonshire terrace County Police Station (In.Dennis,srgt) Moreton-in-Marsh Sanitary Laundry

Home Arthur Davenport William James F. milk dlr Co. Limited (J. E. Gray, sec)

Borne Francis H Davis Francis C. machinery agent,.coal Mm'eton-in-Marsh Shire Horse Society

Home Frederick merchant &; contractor, Church st (Henry Rouse, sec)

Horne Mrs Drury Brothers, butchers NeJson John Henry, furniture dea,;.er

Runston Samuel Frank Dru.ry Robert, bookseller &; stationer Nonconformist Cemetery (Thomas

Jeffrey Thomas Ellis George, carpenter ShareI' Barkes, clerk)

Johnson Walter Flanakin William, farmer Norton &; Sankey, linen &; woollen drprs

Jones Rev. Spencer In. M.A. Rectory Flello George H. greengrocer Pa.cker Frederick, coach builder

Kerrison Henry Foden H. (Mrs.), draper Page Francis, tailor &; draper

Manu Joseph Proctor, The Cottage Freeman Samuel .Alke,r, photog;rapher, Payne Thomas, cooper .& collector ot

Moore John N., J.P. Warneford house Fair View terrace poor rates

Morgan Rev. Evan Cefn (Congrega- Frith Benjamin R. boot &; shoe dealer Peach Thomas Payne,boot &; shoe makr

tional), Fair View terrace Gibbs George, watch maker, see Wal'- Philo S. E. &; E. O. (The Misses),

Norton Alfred ner &; Gibbs young ladies' school

Philo Mrs Gill J;)hn, builder Price Arthur, butchell"

Pike Goorge, DevonshiTe terrace Gillett George, insurance agent Poole William, beer retailer

Pugh Joseph Gillett Jsph.Octavius,brewr.&; maltstr Pye In. Henry, engineer &; millw.right

Rouse Renry Gray &; Son, grocers &; agents fOQ" W. Randle William Henry, White Hart

Sampson Richard, Devonshire terrace &; A. Gilbey Lim. wine &; spirit mers Royal hotel (family &; commercial)

Smith Mrs Gray George Herbert, farmer &; posting house

Stokes Rev. Gabriel M.A. (curate) Gray Geoo-ge Herbeort, jun. builder & Redesdale Public Hal!l (George Gibbs,

Style Mark upholsterer caretaker)

Vine Charles, Church street Grime.s John, painter Roberts Samuel, plumber &; decorator
Wadley ~hilip Hemy, Manor hOUSQ Groves George, beer retailer Rolph Charles, fwrmer

Wells Miss Grubb Edward James, saddler Rowlands John, plasterer

Weston Mrs Rarrison George, in&1lrance agent Shemmonds Chas. B. veterinary surgn

West Ewart Hicks John, Railway hotel Sims Edward, chimney sweeper

Woolland Mtiss, Aston cottage Rolbeach .Allan Robart, Crown inn Smith J oseph Henry, chemist

Yelf RobeTt Edward Burnet M.B Horne Fras. H. corn mer. &; eoal agent SmithWalter,baker &; refreshment ll'ms
Yells 'Mrs. Oroxdale villa Horne Fll"Elderic, ~ocer, wine, spirit &; South Walei'! &; Cannock Chase Coal

Yens George beer merchant Co. Limited (Francis Home, agent)

COMMERCIAL. Hunston Samuel Frank,managerMetro- Stayb Charles, draper

Alexander William, beer retailer politan Bank (of England &; Wales) Style Mark L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.e.S.

Baguley FJI'ederick, Swan hotel Limited Eng. surgeon &; certifying factory

Baker Reginald Langford, mmager of J effrey Thomas, steam plough propr sUirgeon, see Moore &; Style

Capital &, Counties Bank Limited Jesty Maris (Mrs.), boot &; shoe dealell' Strong Rd. Blizard, tailor &; outfitter

Barkes Thomas ISharer, solicitor &; Juffs Henry, saddler Sutton Arthur .Albert, provision dealer

commissioner for oaths, clerk to the Kempson James, Bell P.R Tanner Ann (Mrs.), Redesdale .A!rms

burial board <& to the parish oouncil Lamb 'Yilliam, shoe maker family &; commercial hotel &; posting

Beddoes Ri-chard. commercial traveller Lloyd Wi;Iiam, engine fitter house

Bennett Edwin, farmer Lyddiatt George, carpenter Tarplett John, baker

Rennett Rachael (Mrs.), timber dealer 'Mace George, cycle agent Taylor Mary Ann (Mrs.), apartments

Bennett John, tailor Mare Thomas, shoe maker 'I'eague Ernest, ironmonger, High st

Billings Jeremiah, hairdresser Mann Institute (F. Poulter, librarian) Timms Henry, ironmonger

Brown Michael Lewis, g,rocer &; baker Medlicott Emily (Miss), fancy draper Timms Richard, watch maker

Buckle Willism, blacksmith Metropolitan Bank (of England 1& Trnby William Leonard, farmer

Burlingham Henry &; Co. coal mer- Wales) Limited (branch) (Samuel Union M'sry (Mrs.), Black Bear inn

chants, Railway station Frank Runston, manager); draw on Wadley Philip Henry, farmer

Capital &; Countie.s Bank Lim.(branch) London offioe, 60 Gl'3cechurch street Warner &; Gibbs, watch makers

(Reginald Langford Baker,mangr.); Miller Henry, carpenter Webb Edwd.Jas. printer & bookseJ~el'

draw on head office, 39 Threadneedle Minchin William, dentist Webb Stuall't, basket maker

street, London EO Moore &; Style, surgeonSl We11.s Th()mas, rope maker kc

Church of England Cemetery (Thomas Moore John N., M.R.O.S.Eng. (firm, West Ewart, professor of music

S. Barkes, derk) Moore &; Styl.e), surgn.Warneford ho Wheeler William, butehe~ & dealer

Clapton William A. insurance agent "\foreton-in-MtlTsh Co-operativeSociety White George, apartments

Clayton :Frederick. black'smith (G-eorge Painter, manageT) Wiggins Jennette (Mrs.), dress maker

Coppage Owen James,White Lion F.R MOl'eton-in-Marsh Oricke-t Club (Rev. Wiggins Solomon, baker

Cotta~Hospital (John N.Moore, Robt. W. Wheele.r &; Rt. Yelf, hon. secs) Williams &; Co. coal merchants (Thos.

Edward Bu.rnet Yelf M.B., O.M'. & Moret-on.-ill-Marsh Dairy Co. Limited Wells, agent), Railway station

Mark Style L.B.C.P.Lond. medical (Wm. Timms, sec.), butter factors Yell Robt. Edward Burnet M.B., c.~I.

officers; Samuel F. Hunston, hon. Moret-on-in-Marsh Football Club (Asso- surgeon, &; medical officer &; public

sec.; Miss Rebecca Horne, matron) ciation) (Henry Clifford. iec) vaccinator, Moreton district, Ship-

Crisp Frederick William, grocer, wine, Moreton-in-Mar!lh Gas &; Coke Co. . ston-on-Stour

spirit & beer merchant Limited (A. W. Drury, sec)

MORT ON VALENCE is a village and parish, on the church purposes, and £ I from a charge on a field is dis.
road from Gloucester to Bristol, :I miles west from tributed among the poor. Lord Sherborne is lord of the

Haresfield station on the Bristol and Birmingham section manor and principal landowner; and Mrs. Pardoe, of

of the Midland railway, and on the Gloucester and South Cheltenham, is a large landowner. The soil is clayey and

Wales section of the Great Western railway, 6l south-by- loamy; subsoil, blue lias and ~olite. The chief crops

west from Gloucester and 6 nthoerth-cwouensttyf,roWmheSattreonuhd~risnt are wheat and beans. The area IS o9f78foraecsrheosreof~ land, r3
the Northern division of of water, 23 of tidal water .and. z ;ateable
union, Gloucester county court district, upper division value,. £~,534; the populatIOn ID r89r was: CIVIl, 260;

of Whitstone hundred, petty sessional division of Whit- eccleSIastIcal, r8g.

minster, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and By Local Government Board Order 15,258, Mar. 24,

diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Stephen is an 1884, a part of Putloe from Standish parish and part of

~c~ent building of stone in the Transition ~tyle, con- Saw old parish was transferred to Morton Valence; by
t1ISting of chancel, nave of two bays, south aIsle, north Order r5,262 Moreton Green was added to Standish

porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 from Morton Valence, and by Order 19,483, Mar. 25,
bells: the chancel arch and north doorway are T~ansition 1886, part of Randwick was added to Morton Valence,
Norman: the latter has a tympanum, representm~ Our for civil purposes.
Lord overcoming Satan: the church was completely re- Parish Clerk, Charles Taylor.

stored in 1880-4 at a. cost of £750, when the chancel re- Post Office:-Mrs. Martha .Handl.mg, SUb-.p()stmI~tl'ess.
ceived a. new panelled roof and the tower was carefully

repaired: there are sittings for 120 persons. The Letters VII' Stonehouse arrIve at 8..IO a.m. Box Cleared •
register dates from the year- r:68r. The living is a at. 4.30 p.~.. Post~ orders are Issued here, but not
vicarage, net yearly value £I50 , including 28 acres of paId. Whitmmster IS the nearest money order & tele·

glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held graph office

mlCe 1896 by the Rev. Penrose Ridgway. There are The children of this place attend the schools at Standish

lands producing £u IIS. yearly, which sum is applied to &; Whitminster

GLOU. 16*

244 MORTON VALENCE. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Baron Miss, Woodfield Chamberlayne In. farmer, Yew trees Hooper Thomas, farmer, Putloe

Ridgway Rev. Penrose (vicar) Daniels Thomas, farmer, assistant Merrett In. Thos. farmer &; cattle dlr

Smith Mrs overseer &; sanitary inspector to Pearce & Wintle, wheelwrights, Putloe

Statton Miss Wheatenhurst rural district coun- Prout Frederick, farmer, Moor farm

Chamberlayne Hy.&Thos.frmrs.Putloe cil, Barracks Taylor Charles', thatcher

NAILSWORTH is a small scattered town, and for- SHORTWOOD is, a hamlet, I mil~ south-west, trans-

merly a chapelry, but by lID Order of the Local Govern- ferred in 1896 by Order in Council from Horsley to

ment Borord, dated 13 February, 1892, was constituted Nailsworth. The Baptists have a burial ground here,

a civil parish, out of partl;; of the parishes of Avening, dating from 1715, upon pa,rt of which tW() chapels sue-

Horsley and Minchinhampton; it is in the vale of cessively st()(){f until the removal of th-e second to NailS'-

Nailsworth, on the high road from Bath to Stroud and worth in 1881: there is a mortuary, chapel near, in

Gloucester, and is the terminus of a branch from connection with the burial ground, and an infants' school

Stonehouse of the Birmingham and Bristol section 01 ad~oining.
the Midland railway, 4 miles south from Stroud, 6 Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,

north-west from Tetbury, 14 south from Gloucester and &; Annuity & Insulance Office, Market street.-Alfred

about 100 from London; it is in the Mid division of Margan, sub-postmaster. Let,ters ,arrive through StrO'lld.

the county, Longkee hundred, Stroud union and county from London & all parts, delivereeL at 7.30 &; II.30

court district, petty sessional division of Horsley, and a.m. &; 3 p.m.; dispatched at 10 a.m., 5.35 &; 8 p.m.;;

in the rural deanery of Stonehouse end arehdeaconry sundays, delivered 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.35 p.m. ;

and diocese of Gloucester. office ilJl open from 8 to 10 a.m. for telegraph busmes"!

By an Order of the Oounty Council dated 15 Septem- &; sale of stamps; week days from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m

ber, 1894, and confilrm.ed by an Ord'er of the Local Wall Letter Box (GeoI'lge street), cleared g,t 9.55 a.m. p

Government Board, 21 November, 1894, it is now governed 5.15 &; 7.30 p.m., week days only

by an Urban District Council of 9 members. The Stone- PoSIt Office. Newmarket.-William Whiting, sub-post-

house and Nailsworth railway, now a branch of the master. Letters arrive from Stroud at 7.45 a.m. &;
:Midland, was opened in 1867. The town is lighted by 3 p.m.; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. Postal orders are

gas supplied by the Stroud Gas Oompany, and well issued here, but not paid. Nailsworth, I mile distant,

supplied with water by the Strond Water Company. iSl the nearest money order & telegraph office.

The church of All Saints, at Shortwood, I mile S'Outh- Post Office, Inchbrook.-Mrs. Maria, M. Jones, sub-post-

west, is a smt111 building of stone in the Gothic style, mistress. Letters from Stroud, via. Woodchester, arrive

consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a turret at 7.45 a.m. &; 3.15 p.m.; sundaY' 7.45 a.m.; dis-

containing one bell; pending the erection of a. consecrated pa,tehed at 6 &; 8.15 p.m. week days only; on sunday,

building, this is regarded and used as the parish church: 6 p.m. Postal orden are issued here, but not paid.
there are 300 sittings. The church of St. George, Woodchester &; Nailsworth are the nearest money

eTected :in 1794, but unconsecrated, consists of apsidal order &; telegraph offices

chancel, with vestry and ()II'gan chamber, nave, west OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR HORSLEY PETTY •
SESSIONAL DIVISION.
porch, and a western tower, with domieal roof, con-
taining a clock and 2 bells: it was re-floored and re- Kingilcote Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge K.C.B., LL.D.,
D.L., Kingscote park, Watton-under-Edge (chairman)
pewed in 1879, at a cost of nearly [,200, the money
being chiefly raised by subscriptions': a new organ wa~ Evans Philip James esq. Burleigh court, Stroud
erected in" 1881 at a cost of £190: there are 320 sittings, Janes David Brynmor esq. M.P., Q.C.• LL.B. 27 Bryan-
a small proportion being free. The register of ba,ptisms
ston square W
dates from the year 1794, but is imperfect; the register Kingsoote Nigel Richard Fitzhardinge esq. D.L. Kings-
of marriages' da,tes from 18g5, but oorlier entries of
oote, Wotton-under-Edge
marriages and burials relating to Nailsworth, will be Leigh William esq. WoodcheSlter park, Stonehouse
Pl'liyne Arthur T'wisden esq. LongfordlJl, MinchinhamptoD
found in the registers of the parishes above named.
The living is a perpetu11l cUiracy, yearly value [,106, in Stroud
the gift of the Bishop of Glouce9ter, and held since Playne Charles esq. Overden, Nailsworth, Strand
1892 by the Rev. Gilbert Maxwell Scott M.A. of Jesus
College, Oxford. Here 'lire COI:.gregational and two Bap- Ricardo Oapt. Henry George R.A. Windmill house, Mm.
tist chapels; one of these, in Newmarket road, built
chinhampton, St1"oud
in 1881 at a cost of [,3,300, in place of a former Turnor Lt.-Col. Wyatt William, Pinkney park, Malmes-
chapel at Shortwood, is a rectangular structure of brick
bury
and stone in the Italian style, and will seat 900 persons: Williams Major Lawrence William Edward, Barton End
adjoining is a large schooliroom, with fouT' class-rooms,
house, Horsley, Stroud
for 330 children; there is also a Friends' Meeting house The chairman of the Urban District Council for the time
and a place of worship for Plymouth Brethren. The
Mechanics' Institute was established in 1852, and there being as ex-officio Justice of the Peace
0lerk to the Magistrates, Alfred Edward Smith
is a subscription room for concerts and lectures. In Petty Sessions are held at the Sessions house, Nailsworth,
the town iSi a fountain, erected in 1862, 'liS a tribute every alternate thursday at 11 a.m
Parishes in Petty Sessional Division: Avening, Hcrsley,
of respect to the late William Smith, solicito'1", a native Minchinhampton, Nailsworth & Woodchesfer
of this place. The woollen cloth manufact1lll"e was until

recently the staple trade in the neighbourhood, and URBAN DfSTRIar OOUNCIL.

furnished employment to most of the inhabitants; other Heetings held on the 1St Tuesday of the month at 10.30
industries are now taking its place, amongst which are
a.m. at the Petty Sessional Court house.
soeveral flock factories, and a leather board manufactory.
Members.
In the neighbourhood are large beech woods. A small
Chairman, William George Clissold
non-chartered market is held here on Saturday and a
Vice-chairman, Alfred Henry Playne.
lar~ cattle and sheep market the lest Tuesday in every
month. The Oapital and GountieS' Bank Limited, and *William George Olissold tCharles Robert Cridland
the Wilts and Dorset Bankin~ Company Limited, have
branches here. Several barrows have been opened in *Francis Evans tThomas Horsley Abbott

the neighbourhood. Amberley Court is the :residence *Alfred Henry Playne tJohn Brown

of Lieut.-Col. William Davies M.A., J.P., V.D.; Dun- tEdward Benjamin tLemuel Price

kirk Manor, of the Rev. Augustus Turner RA., and tJohn Jones Bryant

Theeseombe House, of Col. Edmund Smyth J.P. Arthnr Marked thus * retire in April, 1898.
Marked thus retire in April, 1899.
Twisden Playne esq., of Longfords, Minchinhampjon, is :t:
Marked thus t retire in April, 1900.

the principal landowner. The SoOil is clay; subsoll, rock. OFFICERS.

The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. with some Clerk, Alfred Edward Smith
land in pasture. The area is 1,572 acres of land and ~5 Treasurer, Thomas Watkins Oalvert, Capital &; Counties

of water; rateable value, £10,332; the population in Bank, Fountain street
1891 was 2,993.
Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Partridge M.R.C.P.I.

INCHBROOK with Forest Green and Windsor Edge Bowbridge, Straud
are hamlets. The church at Forest Green iSJ an iron Surveyor &; Rate Oollector, Oharles William Jones, Rail-
building, erected in 1865, and consisting of chancel, nave, way Station yard

western porch, and a small turret with spire containing Sanitary Inspector, g'ohn RaIl, Stonehouse

one bell, and will seat 160 persons. The register dates PUBLIO mrABL1SHMENTS.

from the year 1864. There is also a Congregational County Police Station, William Curry, sergeant in charge
chapel.
&; I constable
Public Rooms, Bath road, John Henry V. Wilkinson,mngr
NEWMARKET is a hamlet, I mile west.

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NAILSWORTH. 245

PUBLIC OFFICERS. Church School (infants), Inchbrook, built in 1895, for 70

.Assessor &; Collector of Assessed &; Income Tax &; Collec- children; average attendance, 50; Miss Annie Stayt,
tor of Poor Rates, Charles William Jones, Railway Sta-
iion yard mistress
British (boys), enlarged in 1872, for ISO children; aver-
Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer &; Public
Vaccinator, No. 3 District, Stroud Union, Charles John age attendance, 125; William Hy. Clarke, master
Power M.A., M.D. Hazelwood Baptist (infants), Shortwood, for 80 children; average

Clerk ta the Commissioners of Taxes, Alrd.Edwd. Smith attendance, 35; &; supported by the congregation at-
Deputy Registrar of Births &; Deaths, Horsley sub-dis-
tending Shortwood Baptist chapel; Mrs. Rosetta Nib.
lett, mistress

trict, Stroud Union, Samuel Price, Market street CONVEYANCE.
Omnibus to Stroud, twice daily
Inland Revenue Officer, Oharles Barnicote, .Avening road
Re~istrar of Births &; Deaths for the Horsley Sub-district R.AILWAY STATION.
Charles Stephen Hyde, station master
&; Relieving Officer &; Collector to the Guardians, No.

3 District, Stroud Union, Chas. Hy. Chandler, Bath I'd

Registrar of Marriages, Alfred Morgan, Post office,

Market street; deputy, Rowland W. Morgan, Market st CARRIERS.

SCHOOLS. Midland Railway Co. &; R. T. Smith &; Co. railway &;

National (girls k infants), re-built in 1883, at a cost of general, to all parts

about £600, for 200 children; average attendance, 143; Davis, to Stroud, twice daily; sats. four times from t,he

lIiss Annie Elliott, mistress Railway hotel

N.AILSWlORTn.

I'RIVATE RESIDENTS. Hatton Thomas, Spring hill Ruegg Walter J. Spring hill

Abbott John, Spring hill Hobday Mrs. Pensile house Scott Rev. Gilbert Maxwell M.A.

.Albrecht Carl, Giddynap house Hodges Rev. Samuel(Baptist) ,Bristol I'd Vicarage, Avening road

Allis George Hartland, Watledge Hooper David, Chestnut hill Seeley Mrs. Jersey villa, Bristol road

Antill William, Bath road Hopkins Hiram, Watledge Smith Alfred Edward, The Hollies

.Bird Miss, Nailsworth hill Hurn William, Bristol road Smith Mrs. Holly grove

Blake Artiliur Carter, Deverells J ones Lowe, Spring hill Smith Peter Playne, High Beeclies

Burn Mrs. Whitecroft Ludlow Mrs. Theescombe (letters Smyth Col. Edmund J.P. Thees-

Calvert Thomas Watkins, Fountain st through Amberley) combe house (letters through Am-

Chamberlain Edward A. Barn close Nickalls Rev. Arthur M. (Baptist), berley)

Clissold Joseph, Rockness hill Whorley South Miss, Springfield

.clissold William George, Chestnut hI Norton Mrs. Watledge Swinscow William S. Spring hill

Cockraft Rev. William Owen B.A. Parry William Henry Jeffery Teakle Gideon, Bath road

(curate), Brockley house Pavey Mrs. Spring hill Turner Rev. Augustus B.A. (retired),

Cox Thomas, Chestnut hill Peach Rev. Edward John Hunwick Dunkirk manor (letters· through

Davies Lieut.-Col. William M.A.,J.P., (Congregational), The Manse Amberley)

V.D. Amberley court Playne Alex. Theescombe cottage Underwood Mrs. Nailsworth hili

Dean George, Watledge Playne Alfred Henry, Watledge Warner Miss, Morningside

.Duke Rbt. Everet L.B.C.P. Hazelwood Playne Charles· J.P. Overden Whiting Mrs. George street

Gilbert Wm. Beaumont, Watledge Playne Miss, The Croft Wigmore Miss, Bristol road

Grist Frank, Barn close Power Charles John M.A., M.D. Wilson !Rabert M.B. George street

Rarris J ames, Watledge Hazelwood Young George Edward, Fairview ho

COMl[ERCI.AL. Coley Samuel James, chemist, Bridge street

Abbott Louis. commercial traveller, George street Cox &; Son, builders, Chestnut hill

Albino William, watch maker, George street Cridland Ohas. Robt. grocer &; miller (steam), Market st

.Alder William, shoe maker, Horsley road Curry Emma Rosa (Miss), ladies' outfitter, Church st

Aldridge Edward S. hair dresser, Market street Dauncey &; Son, tailors, Spring hill

Allis George Hartland, bookseller, printer &; stationer, Dauncey Charles John, outfitter, Bridge street

Fountain street Davis &; Champion, auctioneers &; valuers, Bath road j &;

.Allway Jane (Mrs.), baker, Market street at Stroud

Antill Herbert William, china, glass &; earthenware stores, Davis Alphonso, watch ma. &; cabinet ma. Fountain st

Fountain street Davis John, Railway inn, omnibus proprietor &; farmer

Earnicote Charles, inland revenue officer, Avening road Dean Nathaniel, commercial traveller, Watledge

Bathe Edmund, chimney sweeper &; bill poster, Bristol rd de Behr Theodore Lovell, manager of the Wilts &; Dorset

Belshaw Thomas, King-'s Head P.H. Market street Bank, The Cross

.Benjamin Edward &; Co. grocers, &; agents fOr W. &. A. DeRozier Kerenhappuch (Mrs.), teacher of dancing,

Gilbey Limited, wine &; spirit merchants, Market atreet Bath road

Benjamin Edward, farmer &; miller (steam &; water) &; Dodge Joseph, shoe maker, Watledge

landowner, Bath road Drake &; Son, coal merchants, Railway Station yard

Benjamin John, grocer, Church street Drew George Thomas, corn merchant, Railway Station yd

Bishop William H. fishmonger, Fountain street . Dtysdale Albert Edward, plumber, Church street

Bletchley Nathaniel, boot maker, Fountain street Drysdale Alfred, plumber, Horsley road

'Brewer William., commercial traveller, Barn close Eastmans Limited, butchers, Church street

Brinkworth George, shoe maker, Market street Essex J()hn, miller (water &; steam), FouI!tain street

Brown Francis, bookbinder, Church street Evans Leonard, boot maker, Fountain street

Brown John, draper, Market street Farmiloe John, coal merchant, Station road

Browning Jane (Miss), shopkeeper, HorsIey road French Albert, Shears inn, WatIedge

Eruton William, outfitter, Fountain street &; ironmonger, Gage Edward, Weigh Bridge P.H. Iron mills (letters

Market street through Minchinhampton)

Bryant James Jones, currier, HorsIey road GiUman Kate (Mrs.), ironmonger, Fountain street

(}ainscr()ss &; Ebley Oo-operative Society Lim. (branch), Gleed Waiter James, insurance agent, Bristol road

grocers, Bath road Govier Frank, pony traps for hire, Bath road

Calvert Thomas Watkins, sub-manager of the Capital &; Green James, hair dresser, Fountain street

Counties Bank &; treasurer to the Urban District Coun- Harman Charles, carpenter, Bristol road

cil, Fountain street Rarman Philip, beer retailer, Newmarket road

{}apital &; Counties Bank Limited (branch) (Edward Wee- Harmer George Benjamin, confectioner, George street
don Winterbotham, manager; Thomas Watkins Cal- Harris J ames &; 00. flock &; shoddy manufrs. Gig mill,

vert, sub-mana.ger); <>pen daily (except thursdays), Hanis Arthur, saddler, Market "treet

from 10 to 3; thursdays, 10 to I; market days, IQ to Harris Sarah Jane (Mrs.), grocer, Horsley road

4; Fountain street; draw on head office, 39 Thread- Hender Francis Joseph, brass founder, Fountain street

needle street, London E 0 Hender Joseph, china .&; glass dealer, Market street

Chamberlain Edward Alfred, leather board mfr.George st Hill William., blacksmith

Chandler Charles Henry, relieving officer, No. 3 district Hillier's Bacon Curing C(). Limited, provision delJlel's,

&; registrar of births &; deaths, HorsIey sub-district, Market street

&; collector to the Guardians, Straud union, Bath road Ho-oper Eliza (Mrs.), dress maker

Chandler Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Watledge Rowell Emily A. (Miss), shopkeeper, Bath road

Close George, baker, Bristol road Humphreys Henry G. plasterer, Horsley road

Cloudsley Martha Louisa (Miss), dress maker, West end James Henry John, saddler, Church street

246 NAILSWORTH• GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

.Teffenes Frank, cabinet maker, Horsley road Savage WaIter Henry, draper, Bath road

JefIery Oliver, cycle ,agent, Fountain street Sawyer Joseph, farmer, Newmarket road

Jones Charles William, coal &; builders' merchant, asses- Sawyer Thomas, haulier, Newmarket road

sor &; collector of assessed &; income taxes, poor rate Seabourne William, Crown hotel &; G. W. R. receiving

collector, &; snrveyor &; rate collector to the urban dis- office, The Cross

trict council, Railway Station yard; &;at Minchinhamp- Smith G. B. &; A. E. solicitors

ton; National telephone No. 3II Smith Alfred Edward (firm, Smith G. B. &; A. E.), soli-

King Ernest .Alfred, watch maker, Market st. Bridge st citor &; commissioner for oaths, clerk to magistrates.
commissioners of taxes et to the urban. district council
King Joseph, basket maker, Bridge street

Lord & Minett, bakers k corn dealers, Market street Smith Herbert, New inn, Market square

Mallett, Porter & Dowd, rug & shoddy manufacturers, Smith Joseph (late Joseph Smith &; Son), iron gate &;

Avening road fence maker, & general smith, Cossack square; & a~

Mechanics' lnstitute (Alfred Edward Smith esg. pl'csi- Woodchester

dent; WiIliam George Clissold, sec.), Bath road Smith Paul, photographer, Bristol road

Miles Edward, tobacconist, Market street Stephens .Albert, fishmonger, Market street

Mills Joseph, fellmonger Sutton .Alfrerl, Clothiers' Arms P.H. Market street

Moreton Edward, dairyman, Horsley road Tabram Ellen (Miss), girl's boarding school, Avening rd

Morgan &; Son, stationers, Post office, Market sl;reet Tainton John, baker, Horsley road

Morgan Alfred, registrar of marriages, Stroud union, Tanner Henry William, 'Shopkeeper, Market street

Market street Timbrell William, news agent, Fountain street

Morgan Rowland W. deputy registrar of marriages,Stroud Toogood Alfred Henry, golf professional, George street

union, Market street Vann &; C{). drapers, Market street

Morris John, draper & outfitter, George street Wakefield William, Red Lion P.H. Market street

Mortimer Samuel, furniture broker, Bridge street WalkIey Charlotte (Mrs.), grocer, Market street

NaiIsworth Brewery Co. Limited, brewers &; multsters WalkIey George W. baker, Cliurch street

Nailsworth Coffee Tavern Co. (Henry A. Rumming, .mun- Webb Bloomfield Peter, shopkeeper, Market street

ager), Fountain street Whiting William Jasper, grocer, tea dealer, coffee roaster-

Nailsworth Market Co. Limited (Isaac George }lrown, &; wine &; spirit merchant, George street

sec.), George hotel, George street Winterbotham Edward Weedon, manager of the Capital

Nailsworth Public Rooms Co. (John H ..V. Wilkimon, &; Counties Bank, Fountain street

manager), Bath road Wilce Thomas Charles, hair dresser, Market street

Neale Frank, butcher, Market street Wilkinson John Henry Varley, chemist, Bath Toad

Newman Thos. Mayow & Son, wool brokrs.Chestnut hill Wilks William & Edward, wheelwrights, Bath road

Parsloe William & Son, builders &; steam joinery works. Wilson Robert M.B., a.M.Glas. surgeon, George street

Newmarket Toad Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Theodore

Poekett Lucy Elizabeth (Mrs.), Geor~e family & commor- Lovell de Behr, manager); 'Open daily (except thurs-

cial hotel &; posting house, & billial'as, George street days) from 10 to 3; thursdays, Iota I; market days,

Power Charles John M..A., M.D., M.R.C.S.Eng. physician 10 to 4, The Cross; draw On London &; Westminster

& surgeon, & certifying factory surgeon & medical ofli- Bank Limited, Lothbury, London E 0
cer et public vaccinator, No. 3 district, Stroud uu;on, Witchell Hobert, butcher, F'Ountain street

Hazelwood Witchell Thomas Bennett, dairy farmer

Price Lemuel, grocer, & deputy registrar of births & I Wood -& Rowe, coal, salt & builders' merchants, Railway

deaths, Horsley sub-district, Stroud union, Market st I Station yard; &; at Stroud; & Frocester &; Ryeford

Randall .Aug. T. carpenter, George street Railway stations .

Redman Mary Hephzibah (Mrs.), stationer & telephone Woodward Eliza Jane, Emma ,&; Harriet (Misses,," dress

call office, George street makers, Barn close

Reynolds William, butcher, Market street W'ood'Ward George, joiner, Watledge .

Rich George, coffee tavern, Market street Woodward Wm. baker, Fountain st.; & at Woodchester

Saunders Ernest, butcher, Market street Young .Anne (Mrs.), boy's &; girl's day school, Bristol road

Saunders Osborn, plumber, Market street

NEWMAiRKET.

King Henry J ames Hogg Drake Fras. Arth. umbre:la stick ma King Henry J ames H. &; Co. engineers

Newm.an Thos. Mayow, Newmarket ho Evans Eliza (Mrs.), George inn King John, haulier

Porter Robert Hillier's Bacon Curing Co. Limited, Lon~ John,' shopkeeper

Abbott Thomas, jnn. farmer bacon curers Whiting Wm. coach buildr. Post office

SHORTWOOD.

Abbott Thomas Horsley, The Nodes Bennett 'A~bert, Rising Sun P.H Jenner Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer.

Porter Samuel Bishop Samuel, frmr. Up. Lutheridge Lower Lutheridge

Teakle Mrs. Adelaide house

INCHBROOK.

l\Iarmont Arthur C. Northfields works; telegrams, "Boron, Wood- Harris & Co. coal merchants

Pollen Lady, The Hayes chester" Horwood Wiliiam, Crown inn

Still Edmund Alex. Hillside house Browning Jacob, haulier,Windsor edge Marmont &; Taylor,umbrella furniture

Walker Joseph, Dunkirk Mill house Cakebread Arthur & Co. dairy uten- manufacturers

COMMERCIAL. sils makers Mills John, shopkeeper, Windsor edge

Boron (The) Products Co. Limited (T. Evans Anerion, farmer, Wood farm Taylor Reuben, beer retailer

Harris, manager), borax & boracic Evans Edward, farmer Walker W. & Sons, hosiery manufactrs

acid manufacturers', Inchbrook Haines Charles, beer retailer Waterfall "rhos. farmer, Windsor edge

• FORiEST GREEN.

Bowden Marian Bedford & Eliza S. Evans Francis, farmer, Wood farm J ones Chas. .Albt. baker &; shopkeeper

(Misses), preparatory boarding French John, Star inn & coal dealer Lewis John, shopkeeper

school for young gentlemen Gardner Joseph, beer rete & carpenter Waite John, cowkeeper

Carpenter Lionel, beer retailer

NAUNTON, or Naunton-in-the-Vale, is a parish and an embattled western tower, with pinnacfes, containing 3
straggling village, pleasantly se!l.ted in a valley, watered by bells: the ehurch was repaired in r878 by subscription.
the small river Windrnsh, and on the high road between at a cost of about £200, and has 200 sittings. The re-

Cheltenham and Stow-on-the-Wold, 3! miles north-east gister dates from the year 1540. The living is a rectory.
from Notgrove station on the Banbury and Cheltenham gross yearly value £360, including 33 acres of allotment
branch of the Great Western railway, 12 east from Chel- and 490 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the
tenham and 5 south-west from Stow-on-the-Wold, in Bishop of. Gloucester, and held since 1897 by the Rev.
the Eastern division of the county, lower division of Enoch Brooke Bradley. Here is a Baptist chapel, built

Slaughter hundred, Stow-on-the-Wold union, petty ses- in 1850, and seating 200 persons. There are two acres

sional division and county court district, rural deanery of land the rent of which, amounting to £1 IOS. yearly,

of Stow, archdeaconryof Cirencester and diocese of Glou- is applied to church purposes. The manorial rights are
cester. The church of St. .A.ndrew is a building of stone, divided. The principal landowner is John Waddingham
in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting esq. of Guiting Grange. The soil is oolite and stone

of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch and brash; subsoil, light. The chief crops are wheat, tur-

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nips, {lats '8Ild barley. The area is 3,106 acres; rate- Carriers to Cheltenham. William Pullen, on thurs. &;

able value, £2,499; the population in 1891 was 491. sat. &; Jesse Harris, on thurs.; William Pullen, to Bour·

Parish Uerk, Charles Fletcher. ton-on-the-Water &; Slaughter, on mon _
. A School Board of 5 members was formed May 16, 1873;

Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.- I S. G. Collett, clerk to the board; John William Hooper,

John William Hooper, sub-postmaster. Letters from I Naunton, attendance officer

Cheltenham arrive at 8.25 a.m.; box cleared at 4.20 Board School (mixed), built, with residence for master,

p.m. lJourton-on-the-Water is the nearest telegraph in 1870, &; enlarged in 1894, for II2 children; average

office,S miles distant attendance, 90; William Swatman, master

Bradley Rev. Enoch Brooke, Rectory Cox Charles, Naunton inn James George, farmer

Dunford The Misses Fletcher Chas. carpenter &; parish clrk Margetts Joseph, carpenter

Hanks Joseph Gardener Brothers, wheelwrights Martin Benjamin J. baker & miller

Hanks Miss Godfrey George William, blacksmith (water), Naunton mill

Matthews Mrs Hanks' George, farmer Merrell John, grocer

Spanton Rev. Emery (Baptist) Hanks William Wood, farmer &; Phillips Rebecca. (Mrs.), shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. landowner, Aylworth farm Pulham William, baker &; farmer

Baylass' John, plasterer Hanks William Bullock,frmr.Manor ho Pulham William, jun. carrier

Bedwell .Albert, farmer Harris Edwin, boot maker Smith George, farmer

Brown Wm. farmer, Lower Harford Harris Henry, butcher Smith Raymond, blacksmith

Burge James Edward, saddler HaTris Je8se, shopkpr.farmer &; carrier Waine James C. farm 'bailiff to J.

Collett Samuel George, baker &; seed Hooper John William, plumber & Waddingham esq. Round HiNs faJl'Ill

merchant &; assistant overseer & school attendance officer, Post offilce Williams George, Black Horse inn

clerk to t·he school board •

NEWENT is an extensive parish and small market land, in the gift of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge,
town, head of a union, county court district and petty and held since 1897 by the Rev. Samuel Bentley M.A. 01
sessional division. near the confines of the counties 01 that College. Here is & Wesleyan chapel, built in 1855,
Hereford and Worcester,and intersected by the road from with ISO 'sittings, and a Congregational chapel, built in
Gloucester to Hereford and Worcester, with a station on 1844, and seating 300 persons. Pool Hill, 3 miles north-
the Gloucester and Ledbury section of the Great Western east, is partly in Newent and partly in PauntIey parish.
railway, and is 9 miles north-west from Gloucester, 10 At Walden Court, in the Newent part of Pool Hill, is a.

east from Ross, 8 south from Ledbury and III from lecture room, licensed by the lJishop, in which services
London; it is in the Forest {)f Dean division of the are conducted by a lay reader. There is also a Wesleyan
county, Botloe hundred, and in the rural deanery 01
North Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. chapel at Pool Hill, built in 1815, and having 150 -sittings.
The Ell, So rivulet, runs through the north part of this The Cemetery, about half a mile west, was formed in
parish, and drives several mills before its confluence 1863, at a cost of £1,300, and is about two acres in
extent; it has two mortuary chapels of stone and a lodge-
with the Leadon. Newent appears to have been formerly keeper's house, and is now under the control of the Parish
a place of considerable importance, having been a. borough Council. The Market House, conspicuously 'situated in
town, governed by a bailiff; by Leland the name is said the centre of the town, is an interesting example of timber
to signify" New Inn," there being here, wh~n the com- work of the 16th century, and was thoroughly restored
munication was first opened by this way into Wales, only in the year 1864 by the late Richard Foley Onslow esq.
then lord of the manor, whose arms and those of Mrs.
a. single house. The town consists chiefly of two main Onslow, in stained glass, decorate one of the windows.
Markets were formerly held on Fridays; but a market
streets, containing many well-built houses and some
good .shops, and is lighted with gas by a company from for stock is now only held fortnightly on Tuesday, and an
works in Watery lane; the water ,supply is, obtained from onion fair on the Friday after the 19th Sept. The fmrs
private wells. The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin
ill 8 handsome structure, originally erected about the year formerly held on the Wednesdays before Easter and Whit-
1590, and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch Sundays and Aug. 12th, as well as the ,statute fair c.n. the
and an embattled tower on the south side, with a spire, Friday after the 18th Sept. are now abolished. Newent

153 feet in height, and containing a clock and 6 bells: has always been in great repute for the production of
there is an altar tomb, with the recumbent effigies of a cider and perry. There are several flour mills in the
knight in armour and his lady, not as yet identified, but neighbourhood; also a. tannery; bricks and drain pipes
mpposed to represent some members of the De Clifford
family; a brass, now under the organ, to Roger Porter are also made. The town 'has two old established com·

esq. ob. 1523; monuments to the Nourse family, 1636-73 ; mercial inns the" George" and the "Red Lion"; both
the Woodward family, 1699-1710; and to William Rogers, have assembly rooms for concerts and meetings. The
a. benefactor to the parish, 1690: there is also a. large and Temperance Hall in Culvert street, is also let for meetingS',
handsome marble monument, with several finely executed lectures and concerts. The Albion Club comprises a.
figures, to Barbara, late wife of Charles Bourchier esq.
One of the members of the Council at Bombay, and second reading room, provided with a good supply of news""
daughter of James Richardson, of this place, who' died at papers and periodicals, and a library. and attached is a.
sea {In her passage to England January 18th, 1784; and tennis lawn for the use of the members. The Fire
other memorials to Thomas Phipps Onslow, d. 1750, and Brigade consists of a superintendent and eight volun,
James Richardson, d. 1776: the east windo'Wl is a memorial
teers, and h&8 one manual engine; it is supported by
to the Venerable Richard Francis Onslow, archdeacon 01 subscriptions. Charities: John Harvey Olney esq. late

Worcester, and 47 years vicar of this parish, d. 23 Oct. of Cheltenham, left by will in 1836 the sum of £200 to
1849; and to his son, Richard Foley Onslow esq. of Star-
dens, in this parish, d. 12 Mar. 1879: this window, de- the town of Newent, the dividends to be distributed in
stroyed by a storm in 1788 and restored by the children coal and blankets at Christmas; there have been also 16
of R. F. Onslow in 1880, had once previously been de- other benefactors to the poor {)f Newent, who bequeathed
stroyed by falling down on July 15th, 1651: in 1662 the
top of the spire was blown down, and on Sunday, Jan. various sums of smaller value. The total value of the
18th, 1673, the nave of the church, being heavily laden charities is about £57 yearly. Here are almshouses,
with snow, fell about midnight, but was rebuilt in six consisting of ten dwellings for ten or more poor people,
years' time with stone from Culvert street and 80 tons of with a yearly income of £8, derived from a benefaction
left by GileS' Nanfan esq. and Randall Dobyns, gent.
timber from Newent wood, the gift of King Charles II. : There are several mineral springs in the vicinity of this
the chancel roof sunk when the north wall was being re- parish, possessing properties similar to those of Chelten-
ham and Gloucester; the principal .spring lies a. short
built and so remains: in 1679 the church was thoroughly distance from the town, and is surrounded by som6'
splendid !!Cenery: on the south-west is Yartledon Hill.
repaired and much altered: the chancel was restored in now called "May Hill," on account of the festive games
celebrated there on May day; the summit is planted with
1879 at a cost of £480, and in 1880 and 1884 the remainder fir trees and affords an extensive prospect. There are
Was completely restored, at a cost of about £1.200, when several old quarries. from which fossils are obtained.
the nave ceiling was enriched with panelled work from the The Conigree, one mile west, the property a.nd residence
of Edward Conder F.S.A. is said to have been a Roman
existing {)ak beams and boarding and the l1ld oak seats settlement. In 1285, Bogo de Knovill, lord of the manor
made uniform; during the progress of the work a of Kilcot, had "one messuage, one garden with 79 acres
of land" here. The house, formerly the manor house ot
piscina. was discovered; the whole was carried out under Kilcot, restored in 1896, is a half-timbered building ot
the latter end of the fifteenth century. In 1645 it was
the direction of the late Mr. J. H. Middleton F.R.I.B.A. assailed by a body of Parliamentary troops, and Elinor,
widow of Thomas Horton esq. the late owner, in attempt.
of Westminster and Cheltenham: there are sittings for
ing to rescue her goods, was killed by the troopers. Her
600 persons. The register dates from the year 1673, and

contains an entry February 24, 1702, of the burial of
Anne Wilson, widow, aged Il5. The living is a rectory,

net yearly value £541, with residence and one acre of

248 NEWENT. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

son, escaping to one of the secret chambers in the house, Petty Sessions are held at the Sessions House every
alternate thursday, at 11.30 a.m. The following places
saved his life, and the place where he was concealed is are included in the Petty Sessional Division :-Broms-
berrow, Corse, Dymock, Highleadon, Huntley, Kemp-
6till known as "Horton's Hole." Newent Court, the seat ley, Newent, Oxenhall, Pauntley, Preston, Taynton,
of Andrew Knowles esq. J.P. is a handsome residence, Tibberton, Upleadon

with colonnaded portico, standing on an eminence near NEWENT RURAL DISTRICT OOUNCIL.
the church, in park-like grounds, finely timbered and Meets at the Union every alternate thursday, no fixed

containing a beautiful lake. Stardens, the residence of time.

F. A. Wilson esq. is 8 'finely built modern mansion of Clerk, Charles Tunnieliff, Culvert street
stone, 8lianding in park-like grounds, about a. quarter of Treasurer, Charles Nash, Capital &; Counties Bank,
a mile north. The Parks is the residence of Arthur
Broad street
William Montgomery-Campbell esq. Il.A. In 1558 one Medical Officer of Health, William N orris Marshall
Edward Horne was burnt at Old Court, formerly an
M.R.C.S.Eng. Church street
orchard connected with the Court House, for his religion: Sanitary Inspector, Thomas Smith, Holts villa.
at Cugley, a. mile out of the town, there is a cavern in Surveyor, Alfred John Grubb, Rose villa, Watery lane
which Home is said to have concealed himself before his
capture. During the Civil war there was a garrison for

the king at Newent, under the command of Colonel Meine,
who was killed at Redmarley and buried at Gloucester.

About 1812 several brass and silver Roman coins of Julius NEWENT mGHWAY BOARD. Bank,
Cresar, B.C. 48-44; Nerva, A.D. 96-98 ; Vespasian, A.D. Meets at the George Hotel, Newent.
69-79; and Constantine, A.D. 323-337, were found here,
--as well as some fine specimens of earthenware. Andrew Clerk, Octavius Thomas Price, High street
Treasurer, Charles Nash, Capital & Counties
Richard Onslow esq. of Oxenhall, who is lord of the manor,

Lord Somers, William Phelps esq. of Chestal, Dursley, Broad street

Major James Henry Froude, Major Charles Hawkins S:AB S S
Fisher, of Stroud, the Charity Commissioners, Andrew PlffiLIC E T LI HMENT .

Knowles esq. Frank Ricardo esq. of Bromsberrow Place, Cemetery, Charles Tunnicliff, Oulvert street, clerk to the
Ledbury, and Thomas Theodore Brewer Hooke esq. 01 Newent Parish Council; Henry Jellyman, keeper 01

Monte Rosa, Basbourgneuf, Dinan, France, are the chief cemetery grounds
landowners. The soil in general is a light sand, inclining County Court, His Honor Arthur Ileecher Ellicott B.A.

to red, better adapted for arable than pasture, of which, judge; William Hebb, registrar & high bailiff. The

hO"Viever, there is some of a ,superior quality, as' well as county court is held at the Sessional Court every
excellent orcharding; the subsoil consists Df coal, iron- alternate month; the district comprises the following

stone, red sandstone, sand and clay. The chief crops are places :-Aston Ingham, Aston Crews, Ilromsash,
wheat, barley and turnips, and fruit is largely grown. Bromsberrow, Howler's Heath, Keyson Hill, Corse,

The area of the entire civil parish is 8,063 acres of land Dymock, Bromsberrow Heath, Ilroom's Green, Castle

and 31 of water; rateable value, £13,4°8 ; the popula- Tump, Greenway, Holwood's Green, Leadington,
tion in 1891 was: civil, 2,605; ecclesiastical, 2,°72.
Ryton, Rylands, Tilly's Green, Woodend, Hart-
Parish Clerk William Baron. pury, Woolridge, Highleadon, Kempley, Linton,

GORSLEY with CLIFFORD'S MESNE, form an eccle-I' Gorsley, Newent, Iloulsdon, Ilran Green, Botloes Green,

siastical parish formed from Newent, Gloucestershire and Compton, Cugley, Clifford's Mesne, Kilcote, Malswick,
Oxenhall, Hillend Green, Shaw Common, Pauntley,

Linton, Herefordshire, and will be found under a separate Pool Hill, Ketford, Preston, Redmarley D'Abitot, Forty

IrheBadOiUngL.S~O~ and Ki~cot tithing is 2 mil~s .south-we~t;! Green, Haw Cross, King s Green, Lowbans, Rudford,

Compton tlthmg, 2 llllles north; Cugley tIthing, Ii miles Staunton, Snig's End, Taynton Glass House Hill, Kent's
south, and Malswick tithing 1 mile south
Green May Hill Tibberton Upleadon Eden's Hill

Gand:r's Green ' ,, ,

IIlOULSDON gave its name to a family who held it For Ilankruptcy purposeS' this Court is included in that

from 1475 for several generations; in 1558 it belonged of Gloucester; C. Scott, County chambers, Station

to the Porter family, from whom it pa,s-sed by purchase I road, Gloucester, official receiver

Iat the beginning of the present century to Mr. J. Noarse Certified Ilailiff under the" Law of Distress Amendment

Morse, who, in 1803, was lord of the manor and also a Act," James .Toseph Clark, Church street, Newent
comiderable landowner. At this place there were for- I Session Court & County Police Station, Joseph Williams,

Imerly two coal pits, sunk at the expense of a syndicate;! sergeant, & 2 sub-officers

the dppth to the coal, which had a thickness of four or Fire Ilrigade, Henry Davis, superintendent
five feet, was 41 yards; but these collie"ries are now Stamp Office, Post Office, James Ilisco, sub-distributor

woCrkOe~d EoYuGt .ORE or Conigree, I mile west, was a Roman NEWENT UNION.
s~ttle~ent. ' Board day, every alternate thursday at the board room

Post, M. O. & T. 0 ., T. M. 0., S. Il., Express DeII,very, Th' at H.I5 a.m. . h . Gl t
. h f ll'
Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office, Ilroad street. e :omon comprIses t e 0 owmg parIS es m ouces. er-

-James Ilisco, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from shIre :-Bromsberrow, Corse, Dymock, Hartpury, Hlgh.
leadon, Kempley, Ne'."ent, Oxenhall, Pauntley, ~reston,
Gloucester at 4 & II a.m. & 3.45 p.m.; sundays, 4 Rudford! Taynton, TIbbert?n ~ Upleadon; & ID Wor-
cesters~ll'e, Redma~ley. D Abltot & Staunton. The
a.m.; dispatched at 10.36 a.m. & 4.30 & 8.35 p.m.; popul~tlon of the umon ID 1891 was' 8,740 ; area, 40 ,846
sundavs, 9 p.m. The office is open for telegraph busi- acres, rateable value, £54,481

ness {ram 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. & for post office orders

from 7 a m till 8 P m Clerk t? .Guardians & Assessment Committee, Charles

Post & M.' 0: 0" s.. Il. & Annuity & Insurance Office,

Kilcote.-Mrs. Olive Sysum, sub-postmistress. Let- Tunmcliff, Culvert street. .
Tre.as~rer, Ghas.. Na~h, CapItal & CountIes. Ba.nk, Newent
ters arrive from Gloucester via. Newent at 7.45 a.m.; Rehevmg & Vac~mahon Officers, Newent dIstrIct, Wallace
dispatched at 7 p.m. Newent is t,he nearest telegraph S~ml;lel Han~ms! Broad street, Newent; Redmarley
office, 2 miles distant dlstnct, Ben] amm N~nn, Redmarley .
,
Wall Letter Iloxes, Compton, cleared at 7. 10 p.m.; C~ectort to the Guardians, Thomas Sllllth, Holts villa,
Upleadon Cross, cleared at 6.20 p.m.; Union Hill,

cleared at 10.15 a.m. & 8 p.m . Med~IwcealnOfficers & P ubll'e Vaccm. at ors, Ilromsberrow dis-

COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR NEWENT PETTY trict, Arthur Robert Green L.R.C.P.Lond. (medical

SESSIONAL DIVISION. • officer only), Ledbury; Dymock district, Frank Hayes,

Knowles Andrew esq. Newent court,Gloucester, chairman Smelt L.R.C.P.Edin. The Villa, Newent; Newent dis-

Wedderburn Sir William bart. M.P. Meredith, near trict, William Norris Marshall M.R.C.S.Eng. Church

Gloucester street, Newent; Redmarley district (& public vaccina-

Ackers Benj. St. John esq. Huntley manor, Gloucester tor for Ilromsberrow district), Charles St. Stephen
Deane Geo. Onslow esq. Iloyce court, Dymock, Gloucester Richard Nason M.A., M.D., C.M. Corse grange, Corse
Grove Capt.Stanhope R.N. The Grove,Taynton, Gloucester Superintend'ent Registrar, Charles Tunnicliff, Culvert

Ricardo Frank esq. Bromsberrow Place, Ledbury st. Newent; deputy, William Green, Ilroad st. Newent

Scobell Sanford George Treweeke esq. M.A. The Down Registrars of Ilirths & Deaths, Newent sub-district,

house, Redmarley, Gloucester Wallace Samuel Hankins, Ilroad street, Newent;

Thackwell Major 'Yilliam PoIson, The White house, deputy, James Joseph Clark, Church street, Newent;

Pauntley, Gloucester Redmarley sub-district, Ilenjamin Nunn, Redmarley;

Whatley Rev. H, L. Aston Ingham deputy, Mrs. Fanny Nunn

Clerk to the Magistrates, Philip John William Cooke, Registrar of Marriages, Kewent union, Thomas Smith,

Sessions house Holts villa, Kewent

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NEWENT. 249

Workhouse, a building of brick, built in 1867, &; will hold Wesleyan, Rev. Henry Power; 11 a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed.
80 inmates; Rev. Joseph White, chaplain; Frank Hayes 7.45 p.m
Smelt L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R. C.S. Eng. medical officer; SOHOOLS .
.James Davis, master; Mrs. Sarah Davis, matron;
Mrs. Elizabeth Beard, industrial trainer; Miss Selina A. School Board of 5 members was formed June 6, 1879;
Nelmes, nurse Octavius Thomas Price, High street, clerk to the board;
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE. Charles Ford, High street, attendance officer

Meets at the Union every alternate thursday, no fixed time Grammar, Culvert street, Newent, founded in 1867. A
special department provides for divinity students pre-
Clerk, Charles Tunnicliff, Culvert street, Newent paring for ordination, or the antecedent University
Attendance Officer, Charles Ford, High street, Newent training. There is no endowment, but a few exhibi-

PUBLIC OFFICERS. tions are in the head master'-s gift, reducing the school
Assistant Overs~er &; Collector of Poor Rates, William fees to 25 guineas a year. Visitor, Earl tBeauchamp ;
patron, the Bishop of Gloucester &; Bristol; Rev. Joseph
Green, Broad street White, head master
Certifying Factory Surgeon, William Noms Marshall,
Board (boys, girls &; infants), Picklenash, built in 1848-9,
Church street &; enlarged in 1890, for 300 children; average attend-
Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes for Botloe Division, ance, 104 boys, 101 girls, &; 71 infants; Thomas John
Hunt, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, mistress; Miss
Philip John William Cooke, Sessions house
Harriet Venn, infants' mistress
PLACES OF WORSIDP, with Times of Services. Railway Station (Gloucester &; Ledbury branch line),

St. Mary the Virgin Church, Rev. Samuel Bentley M.A. John Wilding, station master
Carrier.-Henry Davis, to Gloucester &; back daily, 9
rector; Rev. James Wilkinson Story, curate; 11 a.m.
&; 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m.; fri. 11 a.m a.m. returning at 4 p.m
Congregational, Rev. William Henry Dash; 11 a.m. &;
6.30 p.m.; mono 8 p.m. &; wed. 7.30 p.m

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hallam Rev. William Edward M.A. Peters Mrs. Broad street

Porch house, Church stTeet Pontifex Mrs. Gloucester villa.

A.rchdale Audley, Bury bar Hartland Thomas, Church street Read James, Southends villa

Bentley Rev. ISamuel M.A. (rector), Hwrtland William, High street RowleyWm. Thos.Redding viI.:Malswick

Rectory HilI.John, High house Smelt Frank Hayes, The Villa

Brooke.s Samuel, Holt villas Hill John, Waterloo terraoe" Holts Story Rev. James Wilkinson (curate of

Chidley Miss, Culvert street Hudson Lieut.-Col. Herbert E. J.P. St. Mary's), Holts villas

Clark George, Church street The Holts Summers James, Church street

Oolebatch Philip Arthur, Red Hill vil Jayne James, High street Sur! William Dyer, High street

Conder Edward F.S.A. The Conigree Jones Alfred, Church street Thurston William, Fairfields

Cooke Philip John William, Old Court Knowles Andrew J.P. Newent court White Rev. Joseph (head master of

Dash Rev. William Henry (Congrega- Lees David, Culvert street Grammar school &; chaplain of

tional), The Manse Lees John, -GulveI"t street union), Culvert street

Dowding MJrs. Broad street Marshall William Norris, ChUl'ch st Whittles Henry, Broad street

Browde Charles William, The Hayes Montgome,ry-Campbell Arthur William Williams Francis

Gower Rev. Henry (Wes.), The Nook B.A. The Parks Wilson F. A. Starden!l

Hartland Henry, Highfield Nash Charles, Broad street

COMMERCIAL. Cooke Philip John Wm. (firm, Cooke P. &; Son), solicitor,

Akerman WaIter, butcher, Broad street clerk to the magistrates & commissioner of taxes for

.Albion Club (Thomas John Hunt, hon. sec.), Market pI Botloe division, Sessions house

"Bailey Thomas &; Son, saddlers, Broad street County Court (William Hebb, registrar &; high bailiff),

Baldwin WiIliam, shopkeeper, Church street Church street

Baldwin William, jun. baker, Broad Sltreet Court Benjamin, Red Lion commercial hotel; good accom·

Baron William, tinplate worker, Church street modation for cyclists, Broad street
Bellamy Ernest Franeis, farmer, The Moat
I C{)wles Samuel, farmer, Mantley house
Berkeley James Henry, watch ,&; clock maker, Broad street Creed Charles, Kilcote inn, Kilcote

Bidmead John, sen. builder &; contractor, Culvert street Crisp William, tailor, Broad street

Bidmead John, jun. monumental mason, Bury bar Cromwell Edward, leather seller, Broad street

Bidmead Richard Morris, house furnisher, ironmonger, Crook William, farmer, Black house

cabinet maker, upholsterer, carpenter &; paperhanger; Crook William George, farmer, .A.ntony's cross

carpentering work of all kinds, Church street Cummins Ernest .John, farmer, Poydresseg

Birt Richard, tailor &; toy dealer, Broad· street Cummins William, farmer, Malswick farm

Bisco Charlotte Mary (Miss), stationer, Church street Davis Samuel &; Sons, plumbers, Church street

BisCQ James, boot &; shoe maker &; sub-postmaster &; sub- Davis Henry, baker &; carrier, Broad street

distributor of g,tamps, Church street Dawe John, jobbing gardener, rBury bar

Blewett George, wheelwright &; carpenter, Malswiek Douglas James, steward, Lower cottage

Brassington Joseph, farmer, Okle Dowdeswell Thomas, farmer, Lower house

Bray Arthur, outfitter, Church street East James Henry, farmer, Rymes place

Bruton Edward, draper &; farmer, Broad street Edwards William Thomas, beer retailer, Culvert street

Bunyan Jacob Francis, farmer, Great Boulsdon England Robert, coal dealer, Crown hill

Burrows John, farmer, Yates farm Eveg Mary Ann (Mrs.), general dealer, Broad street

Burton Sidney, insurance agent, Squirrel Faulks Charles, miller (water) &; farmer, Brass mill

Capital &; Counties Bank Limited (branch) (Charles Nash, Ford Charles, inquiry &; attendance officer to the school

manager), Broad street; draw on head office, 39 Thread. attendance committee &; school board, High street

needle street, London E C Frowde Charles William, farmer, The Hays

Carter George, farm bailiff to A. Knowles esq. Poyks Giles Francis William, miller (water), Malswick mill

Cemetery (Charles Tunni,cliff, clerk) Gingell Mary (Mrs.), ·shopkeeper, High street

Chidley Frank, butcher, High street Gingell Samuel, shopkeeper, Church street

Child Thomas, tobaceonist, Broad street Goode Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Culvert street

C;ark Arthur &; S~m, auctioneers, printers, stationers, Grammar School (Rev. Joseph White, head master),

ironmongers &; agents Culvert street

Clark Frank, painter, Broad street Green Thomas, travelling draper, Church street

Olark James, cowkeeper, Okla green Green William, deputy superintendent registrar, assis-

Clark James Joseph, certified bailiff &; deputy registrar tant overseer &; collector of poor rates, Broad street

of births &; deaths, Newent sub-district, see Clark Greenaway Charles, King's Arms P.H. Ross road

Arthur &; Son Greenaway Lorenzo Jas. baker &; confectioner, Broad st

Clark John Frederick. farmer, Nelfields Griffiths James, commercial traveller, Culvert street

Clark William, builder, High street Grindon William, farmer, Line house

Clews Samuel, grocer, Broad street Grubb Alfred John, road surveyor to the county council

Cole John, builder, Hig-h street &; to the Newent highway board, Rose villa. Watery la

Collins Joseph, b~r retailer, Station road Hall Caroline (Mrs.), farmer, Black house

Compton George, farmer, Upleadon cross Hankins T. D. &; Son, bakers, Church street

Cook Charles James, b~r retailer &; bill poster, High st Hankins Wallace Samuel, baker &; confectioner, Broad st
IHankins Wallace SaInl. relieving &; vaccination officer &;
Cook William John, baker &; grocer, High street registrar of births &; deaths. Newent district, Broad st
Cooke P. &; Son, solicitors, Sessions house

Oloke Philip Barrett, solicitor, see Cooke P. &; Son Hart Silas, farmer, Hay farm. Malswick

250 NEWENT~ GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Hartland Henry, farmer, Compton house Parlour Henry, farmer, Lower Boulsdon
Penwarden Peter, grocer & provision dealer, Broad street
Hartland Henry, grocer & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Lim. Phillips Thomas, tailor, High street

wine & spirit merchants, Broad street Phillips William, agent for the West of England Sack Co.
Hartland Miles, plumber, painter & glazier, Market place
Hatch Frederick, haulier, Ross road sack contractors, & sec. Gas Co. ,Broad street
Pocknell Thomas, farmer, .Allowsons
Hebb William, solicitor & commissioner for oaths &, Pocock Edward, insurance agent. High street
registrar & high bailiff of county court, Church street Pope William, farmer, Newtown
Powell Elias, chimney sweeper, Culvert street
Hefford George, shopkeeper, Broad street Price Octavius Thomas, solicitor &; clerk to the scho01
Hill Joseph, farmer, Baldwins
board &:, highway board, High street
Hodgetts John, coal dealer, Holts Read William, haulier, Kilcote
Reeves William, watch &; clock maker, Broad street
Holloway Trophimus Bernard, farmer, Carswal13 Rudge Ellen Anna (Miss), flour & corn wareho. Broad st
Ryder Thos. farm bailiff to M. A. Wood esq. Ford house
Honeyfield .Augustus, farmer, Knappers Sadler Charles, coal merchant, Church street
Hooper Francis, farmer, The Crown Sandy Harriet (Mrs.), dress maker, Market place
Hooper Thomas, farmer, Briery hill Sheepway George, Bull inn, Church street
Hughes William, thatcher, Gloucester street Skinner Ellen (Miss), dress maker, Ross road
Smelt Frank Hayes L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. sur·
James Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress, Church street
James William, shopkeeper, Church street geon, medical officer, Newent workhouse, &; medical
officer &; public vaccinator, Dymock dist. Newent union
James William, jun. shopkeeper, High street Smith Albert, grocer, Broad street
Jellyman Henry, keeper of cemetery, Watery lane Sm~th Caroline (Mrs.), dress maker, Church street
Jenkins Charles, blacksmith, Station road Smith Fred, butcher, Church street
Jenner Ernest, farmer, Commonfield Smith John (Mrs.), farmer, Carwents
Jones Humphrey, miller (water), Cleeve mill Smith Joshua, farmer, Laynes farm
Jones Thomas William Richard, boot & shoe ma. High st Smith Leonard John, land agent, Scarr
Lanceley Joseph William,butcher & hair dresser, Church st Smith Thomas, sanitary inspector to the rural district
Lees Brothers, tanners council, collector to the guardians & registrar of marri-
ages, Newent union, Holts villa
Leighton Thomas, shopkeeper, Botloes green. Smith Wil~iam Charles, farmer, Moat, Malswick
Steward Eliza Octavia (Mrs.) dress & mantle maker,
Lewis Benjamin, jobbing gardener, Culvert street Church street
Lewis Charles, mason, Culvert street Temperance Hall (C{)rnelius Thurston, propr.), Culvert st
Lewis Oliver, hair dresser & tobacconist, Broad street Thomson Henry, farmer, South End house
Llewellyn Richard, blacksmith, Culvert street Thomson Henry, jun. cider merchant, High street
Thurston Cornelius, grocer &; provision dealer & dealer in
Lodge J ames, The George commercial hotel & posting beer & stout in cask & bottle, Church street
house &; farmer, Church street Townsend Matthew, blacksmith, Strawberry hill
Tunnicliff Charles, land agent for AIJ4lrew Knowles esq.
Longley E. H. farmer, Sandaway J.P. superintendent registrar & clerk to the guardians
&; assessment &; school attendance committees of Ne·
Mahler A.1bert, farmer, Cugley fa.rm went union, clerk to the Newent rural district council
&; to the parish council, Culvert street
Mansell Joseph, farmer, Ploddy house West Geo. Hy. M.R.C.V.S.Lond. vet. surgeon, Church st
Whittle George, agricultural machinist
:Marks William Henry, Travellers' Rest P.H. Malswick Wilding J<lhn, station master, Holts
Marshall William Norris M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, & medi- Williams Caroline (Miss), ladies' boarding &; day school,
Church street
cal officer of health for the rural district council of Williams Charles, boot maker &; baker, Crown hill
Newent, medical officer &; public vaccinator, Newent Williams David, boot maker, Broad street
district & certifying factory surgeon, Church street Wintle William, beer retailer, Church street
Martin .Alfred H. watch maker, Church street Wintle William, shoe maker, Broad street
Wood Mbert Henry, builder, Culvert street
Mayo Charles, haulier, Station road Wood Jane (Miss), dress maker, Bury bar
Wright Richard, grocer, High street
Meats John & Sons, coal & salt mers. Railway station Young Men's Institute (Andrew Knowles esq. president),
Men's Help (D. Williams, sec.), Church street Church iltreet
Milner H. R. chemist, Market place
Moody Fanny, Susan & Rate (Misses), butchers,Broad st at Christmas. Lasborough Park, in this parish, the
property of Cnpt. George Lindsay-Holfo-l'd C.I.E., J.P.
Moody John Rumming, farmer, Raven's hill
Morgan Frederick, painter, Culvert street of Westen Birt, is now (1897) unoccupied. Col. Sir
Morgan John Dee, carpenter & shopkeeper, Culvert street R. N. F. Kingscote K.O.B. is lord of the manor and

Nash Charles, manager Capital & Counties Bank Limited chief lando"\\'ner. Th~ soU is mixed clay and stone
& treas. to the union & rural district council, Broad st brash; subsoil, oolite. The chief crops are wheat, bar-
ley and turnips. The area is 1,975 acres; rateable value
Newent Brick & Pipe Works o(Andrew Knowles esq. pro- £1,268; the populati<m in 1891 was 179. The Court-
prietor; William James, foreman), Gloucester road hous-e S't...ill remains, and is now a farm.

Newent Drug Co. family &; dispensing chemists &; drug- NEWIKGTON is a small hamlet about <a mile west.
gists, Cheapside, Church street By Local Government Board Order 14,749, March 24,
1884, a detached part of Newington Bagpath was added
Newent 'Gas Co. Limited (William Phillips,sec) to Owlpen, I!lDd by Order 14,750, March 25, 1883, Old
Newman Cuthbert, farmer, Mderleys Leaze was transferred to Kingseote.

Nunn Huhert, farmer, Upleadon cross
Owen Henry, beer retailer, Broad street
Pardoe Thomas, draper &~clothie.r, Church street
NEWINGTON 13AGPATH is a parish and vil·

lage, 1 mile from the road from Bath to Wotton and
Berkeley, and is 5~ miles east-by-north from Chariield
station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the
Midland railway and 6 west fro-m Tetbury stati<ln on

the branch of the Great Western railway flrom Remble
Junction, in the Ealltern division of the county, upper

division of Berkeley hundred, Tetbury union and petty
sessional division, Dursley county court district, rural
deanery of Dursley, archdeaoonry of Gl6ucester and
diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The l'iver Avon
passes thr.ough the ea,stern portion of the parish. The

church of St. Bartholomew is an oancient building of

stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel,
nave, south porch, and an embattled western towel

containing one bell: there are 230 S'ittings. The !register Sexton, William Webb.

dates from the year 1686. The living is a rectory with Letters through Wotton-l.1nder-Edge arrive at 8.30 a.m.
the chapelry of Kingscote annexed, net yeaa.-ly mlue Wall Letter Box cleared 4.15 p.m. week dayS' only.
£200, including 46 acres of glebe, in the gift of 001. Kingscote, 1 mile distant, is the nearest post, money
order & telegraph office
Sir R. N. F. Kingscote R.e.B., and held since 11872
National School (mixed), for the parishes of Newingt<Jn
by the Rev. Man Kingscote Cornwall M.A. of Trinity Bagpath, Kingscote & La,sbQl1'o'Ugh, built, with master's
College, Oambridge, who resides at Asihcroft, Wotton- house, in 1871, for 150 children; average '3ttendance,
under-Edge. The interest of £50, left by Mr. John 78; Alfred N oyee, master
White, of KingscDte, is distributed to the poor in bread

Dyell" 'Mia.ry (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hulbert Jame-s, farmer,Scrubbits farm Newington (postal addooss, Kings-

Hatherell William, fapneT &; traction (postal address, Kingscote, Wotton- cote, Wotton-under-Edge)

engine proprietor,Calcot farm (postal under-Edge) Teakle Anthony George, farmer, Bag-

address, Tetbury) Ormandy William Whinnereh, farmer, path court

NEWLAND is a pleasant village and extensive parish, it is bounded on the west by the river Wye, wh~ch
comprising- t.he tithings of Bream and! Coleford, Clear- divides the county from Monmouthshire, with a statIon

well, Newland and Lea Bailey, the latter in Ross union; on the Monmouth and Caleford section of the Great

DIRECTORY. ] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NEWNHAM. 251

Western railway, and is 4 miles south-east iirom Mon- dians of the charity: he also founded a lectureship, to
mouth, 2 south-west from Coleford and 127 from Lon- be held by a. clergyman, who should have spiritual
don, in the Forest of Dean division of the county, St. charge of the almspeople and receive a salary of £70
Briavels hundred,.' petty sessional division of Coleford,
yearly, with residence and 4 acres of land: the Haber-
union -and' county court district of Monmouth, rural
deanery of South FGrest, and archdeaconry and diocese dashers' Company pay a sum of £230 yearly for these
of Gloucester. The church of .All SaintS' is a building purposeS': each inmate of these almshouses receives 7S.
of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con- weekly, with medical attendance and the services of a
Il'esident nurse: the Rev. William Bagnall-Oakeley M.A.
sisting of chancel with one north and two south chapels, of Jesus College, Oxford, has been lecturer since 1871.
.A. sum of about £10 is distributed to the p<Jor in
clerestoried nave of nve bays, aisles, south porch, anli money. Henry Hall's charjty, consisting of land at A.wre
an embattled western tower with plnnacles, containing and Consols, together producing £52 Ss. 4d. yearly, is
6 bells: there are memorial windows, to Mr. Ducarel, dis·tributed to the poor of this parish. Ilirchamp House
is the residence of the Misses Blandy; Newland House,
Mr. and Mrs. Brickdale, the Rev. Thomas Birt, perpetual of Char:es ThomaS' Palmer esq. J.P. and Oak House,
curate of Bream from 1801, Lieut. J. F. Brickoole, of Capt. John Henry Dighton J.P. The Crown as o\\ner
and to the Rev. George Ridout LL.B. vicar here from of the manor, John Capel Philips esq. of Heath House,
Taan, Stoke-on-Trent, J. Bengough esq. Charles Thomas
1832: there is an interesting font dating from 1661: Palmer esq. Newland House; Captain John Henry Digh-
in the south aisle is <an aIbr tomb of the time of ton and the MisSJes Blandy, are the principal landowner~.
Edward Ill. with recumbent effigies of Sir John Jose and The soil is gravelly and loamy; subsoil, clay, limestone.
his wife, and in the north aisle are effigies of two priests, and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and
oats. The a,rea of the entire pa.rish is' 7,457 acres; rete-
vested, of the 14th century, and a marble monument able value, £15,568; the population in 1891 was '4,237'
to Sir Edmund Probyn, kt. chief baron of the ,exchequer, including the town of Coleford, 2,340.

1740, ob. May 17, 1742, and Elizabeth mencowe, his Clerk in Orders, Rev. William Ilagnall-Oakeley M.A.
wife, and there are other memorials to the Hall, Wynd.
ham and Throgmorton families. The brass eagle lectern UPPER REDBROOK, 2 miles north-west, partly in the

was given in 1895 by the Misses Blandy in memory 01 county of Monmouth and parish of Dixton, and Ii)WER
their mothoer: each of the ch-apels Ifetain a piscina: REDBROOK, 21 miles' west, are hamlets.
there is an aumbry in the chancel: the rood stairs re·
main: the church was restored in 1862, at a cost of SextoOn, Thomas Morgan.

over £4,000, and has 500 sittings. In the. churchyard Post Office.-Mrs. Louisa Pe3rce, sub-postmistrass. Let-
ters from CoJeford are delivered at 7.15 a.m. & 1.15
are the steps and base of an ancient cross', with modern p.ll.; dispatched .a.t 2.30 p.m. &; 6.45 p.m. Postal
shaft, and also a. raised tomb with the recumbent effigy orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
money order & telegraph office is at Redbrook, 2 miles
of a man in hunting costume, inscribed to John Wyral, distant
forester, of Fee, 1457, and a stone slab with Q recumbent
effigy of an archer carrying ,a bow and arrows. The Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery.
regi8'ter, including Bream, Olearwel1 and Coleford, dates
from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Parcel Post, & Annuity &; Insurance Office, Redbrook.
value £255, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop -David Williams, sub-pGstmaster. Letters from Mon-
of Gloucester and Bristol, and held since 1895 by the mouth are delivered at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m

Rev. Ranulph Hamilton Evered M.A. of St. Edmund Wall Letter Box, Lower Redbrook, cleared 5.50 p.m.
week days only
Hall, Oxford. St. Saviour's chapel of ease at Lower
Redbrook, erected in 1873, at a cost of £2,200, is a The Grammar school has been removed to ColeEord & 12
building of stone in the Early English style, consist- boys of this parish are entitled to free education tbere
ing of chancel, nave, vestry and organ chamber, south
Parish School, Redbrook (mixed), built in 1873 &; en-
porch and a turret ab the routh-east angle containinr larged in 1877, for 130 children; average attendance.
one bell: there are 240 sittings. Here 3Il'e almshouses 99; Hugh Rees, master; Mrs. Isabella Rees, infants'
for 4 men and 4 women, founded in 1626 by Mr. Edward mistlress
Bell, of Writtle, Essex, with oan endowment of £210
Railway Station&.-Newland. Frederick Gosling, station
derived from land; each inmate receives 5 shillings master; Upper Redbrook, Henry Davis, station master

weekly: there are aIm .almshouses for 8 men and 8
women, parishioners of Newkmd, founded in 1615 by

Mr. William Jones. citizen of Loudon and haberdasher,

who <appointed the Haberdashers' Company to be guar-

NEWL.AiND. Miles William Francis. Ostrich P.H Hawkins Thomas. Queen's Head P.H

Bagnall-OaJdey Rev. William M.A. MLlrgan Thomas. joiner & undertaker, James Henry, Founder's Arms P.R
(lecturer of Jones's almshouses), wheelwright & general smith Oldlands Oliver Ford, miller (watell")

The Lecturage Pearce John Valentine, gardener to the Wheeler John, Bush inn

Blandy Fredk. J.P. Birchamp house Misses Blandy Williams William, agricultural imple-

Blandy Misses, Ilirchamp house Robinson William, farmer, Lodge farm ment maker, iron worker &; grocelr'

Brandon Mrs. Edgar, South lodge Smith }\fuses, farmer, Cherry Orchard LOWER REDBROOK.
Dawson Miss, The Cottage 'Williallls George, faTIller, Tanhouse

Dighton Capt. In. Hy. J.P. Oak house WillialllS John Knight, farmer, Valley Beard Edwin
Evered Rev. Ranulph Hamilton M.A. House farm Nurse John
Beard Ann (~Irs.), Bell inn
(vicar) UPPETh REDEROOK. Bennett Benjamin, groc~
Palmar Charles Thos. J.P. Newland ha
Jame.s Oliver, The Elms Hudson Jas.boat buildr.& timber dealr
Palmer Mrs. Newland house
Courteen Thomas, Spring cottage Hudson Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. Burgham OliverArth.breweIr &; maltstr Redbrook Reading Room (Hy. ·Cantle.

Beard Edward, farmr. Coxbury farm Courteen Tom Alien, mill~r (steam &; hon. sec)
Ferneyhough Herbt. frmr. Glynn farm water).&; clerk to the parish council Redhrook Tin Plate &; Iron 00. Lim.
Gunter William, gardene,r to C. T. Fletcher Tom, wheelwright (~:Ue:xander Taylor, manager)

Palmer esq Fosten- Samuel, boot &; shoe maker Taylor Sarab Ann (Mrs.), King's

Harber William, farmer, Spout farm Groves Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper Head P.H

NEWNHAM is a town and head of a county court from this place on his expedition to Ireland, and landed
district and petty sessional division, and a parish beauti-
fully seated on the western bank of the navigable river near 'Vaterford.
S~vern, m·er which is a ferry at high and low water, and Under the provisions' of the "wcal Government Act,
on the high road from Gloucester to Chepstow, with a
1894 ., ~56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), the town is now governed
station on the Gloucester and South Wales branch of the by an TIrban District Council of 12 members, which takes
Great Western railway, 114 miles by road from London,
12 south-west from Gloucester, 16 north-east from Chep- the place of a Local Board formed in 1863. The town i9
lighted with gas by a limited company, from works in
stow and 16 east from Monmouth, in the Forest of Dean
division of the county, Westbury hundred, Westbury-on- StRtion road, and supplied with water from wells and
Severn union, rural deanery of Korth Forest, and archdea- from works a mile distant, in the Blaize Bailey, con-
conry and diocese of Gloucester. Newnham, in the 13th structed by S. W. Wood,lJ esq. at 'his own expense. The

century, is said to have been a borough town, returning church of St. Peter, standing on an eminence at the stttIth
one member to Parliament, but the inhabitants praying to end of the town, was originally in the Norman",Early
English and later styles, and after being enlarged and-
be exempted from this privilege, on account of the ex-
restored in 1875, at a cost of £4,600, was ftestroyed by
pense, the representation was ,discontinued. In 1171
fire in 1881, and again rebuilt in fac-8imile,~t a cost of
Henry II. with Strongbow. Earl of Pembroke, set sail
al::out £4,43°, and noW' consists of chancel-, nav'" {)f four
bays, south aisle, north porch, organ chamber, +est?, and

252 NEWNH.AM. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

'Bn embattled western tower, with spire and a turret at COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE N'EWNHAM

the south-west angle, and containing 8 bells and a set of PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION.

-chimes: the east window and six others are stained: the Crawley-Boevey Sir Thomas Hyde bart. Flaxley abbey, •
pulpit is of Bath stone, with shafts and panels of alabaster, Newnham, chairman
and there is a Late Norman font, carved with figures of Bennett James esq. Little Box, Awre
ilopostles: there are modern brasses to the late John Hill, Bennett Joseph Richard esq. Chaxhill, Newnham

who died at Streatham, London, 22nd March, 1894, and to Brain Thomas Bennett. esq. Euroclydon, near Michel-

the late John Stratf(}rd Collins, 36 years surgeon of this dean R.S.O

parish, who died in 1880: there are sittings for 530. p.er- Colchester-Wemyss Maynard Willoughby esq. Westbury

"Sons. The register dates from the year 1547. The liVIng court, near Newnham

is a. vicarage, net yearly value £100, with residence, in Crawshay William esq. 7 Pittville terrace, Cheltenham

the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1890 Hart Miles, esq. Elton court, Newnham
by the Rev. William Gordon Baillie M.A. of Oriel Colleg-e, Kear J ames C8q. Cinderford
Oxford. The vicarage house was erected in 1889. The Kerr Russell James esq. The Haie, Newnham
Congregational chapel is a building of stone in the Gothic Kerr Russell James, jnn. esq. Culver house, Newnham
style, with sittings for 350 persons.. A cemetery of one Lloyd :Francis Montagu esq. The Grange, Newnham
acre was added t(} the churchyard In 1875, at a cost of Stubs Pet-er esg. Blaisdon hall, near Newnham
£800, and is under the control of the Ur~an Cou~cil Thomas Arnold esq. Severn Bank house, Newnham
acting as a burial board. The Town Hall, In the HIgh Clerk to the Magistrates, Maurice Frederic Carter
street, is a structure of brick; a clock tower of stone, 60 Petty Sessions are held at the Petty Sessional Court,
feet in height, with a short spire and 'Vane, was erected Littledean, every friday at II a.m. The following places
'Bt the junction of High street and Station road by public Bre included in the petty sessional division: -Abinghall,
8ulfscription in 1873. King John presented to the Cor- Awre, Blaisdon, Blakeney. East Dean, FIaxley, Little-
poration of Newnham, then governed by a bailiff, a sword dean, Llnghope, Micheldean, Newnham, part of Ruar-
of office, which is now (1897) in the possession of Russell dean & Westbury-on-Severn
James Kerr esq. J.P. and lord of the manor; the sword

has. a blade 4 feet 4 inches in length, on the upper part of URBAN DISTRJOT COUNCIL.

which and immediately under the hilt is the following in- Offices, Police Station.
Meeting day, second wed. in each month, at 4.30 p.m.
scription: "IORN*MOR BEING MAIER*THIS*SORD*
DID REPAlRE*1594." There are branches here of Lloyds

Bank Limited and the Capital and Counties Dank Limited; Members.

there i~ also a large tannery, and a considerable trade is All retire in April, 1898.
~arried on in bark, timber, slate and coal, at the Bullo
IChairman, Russell James' Kerr J.P.
Pill and Broad Oak wharves. AJ branch line of rail runs Thomas Barker Fox Henry Preece

to the former, and mineral lines from the coal and iron

mines, in the Forest of Dean. Near the church is a long Alfred Ernest Goold John Stiles

raised Fossway, aI~cicntly constructed for defensive pur- James Hart Arnold Thomas J.P

puses, but now converted into an agreeable promenade. William Henry King Douglas James Wintle

Fairs are held on June nth and October 18th for cattle. James Richard Philpotts James Wintle

The charities are as follows: John Matthew-s, gentleman, Officers.
a native of Bath and an attorney of this town, left in the

year 1808 £300 in Government securities, the interest. of Clerk, Maurice Frederic Carter

which is applied to church purposes; Samuel Hawkms Treasurer, Samuel Wilkinson Woods

esq. of Leman street, London, in 18°5, left £200 in Medical Officer of Health, Francis Thomas Bond RA.,

Government securities, the interest of which is chiefly M.D., F.C.S. 3 Beaufort buildings, Spa, Gloucester

applied to church purposes, but some part is distributed Sanitary Inspector, William M. Ellis

in bread and money; Col. John Harvey Olney, late of Collector, George Thorne

Cheltenham, in 1836, left £300, the interest for fuel anli Surveyor, Henry Ferris

clothing- and for distribution in money; Mr. Jas. Jocham, TT

Ilate of Bristol, in 1764, gave the interest of £1,000 PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.

towards the clothing of 15 poor boys yearly, and the re- County Court Town hall His Honor Arthur Beecher
mainder t() poor lying-~ women; the late Mr. John Hill,
of Streatham, London, ID 1895, left the sum .of £2,000 Ellicott RA: judge; John Wright Guise, registrar &
towards the cost of the church clock and ~hImes,. ~nd acting high bailiff, County court; Aaron Knight, Little-
directed that the surplus should be expend~d ID prov~dmg dean & Edward Thomas Barry, Micheldean, county
public sea~s on the promenad~ green an~ ID the relIef of court bailiffs. Court held monthly, on a wednesday.
the deservmg, poo.r. The HaIl', the res'ldence of Russell
James Kerr J.P. IS' pleasantly sea~ed on the banks. of ~he The following parishes are within its juriSdiction, viz. :
Severn, and. commands an ex~enslve and .panora~lC VIew -Abinghall, Arlingham, Awre, Blaisdon, Blakeney, East
for some JI.liles o.n the other SIde of the rIver; thIrty-two
churches, mclud.mg the cathedral of Gloucester~ may be Dean, Flaxley, Littledean, Longhope, Lydbrook, Michel-
counted from thIS spot, and the Cotswold and Stmchcomb dean, Newnham & Westbury-on-Severn

hTIls are also visible; the gardens have a high reputation, For Bankruptcy purposes this Court is included in that

and are visited by large num?er~ of persons. Russell of Gloucester; official receiver, Charles Scott, County
James Kerr esq. J.P. of The Hale, I~ chIef landowner ll:nd chambers Station road Gloucester
lord of the manor of Ruddle an~ :Ne'YIlha~.. A portlO!1 Certified B~iliffs under the" Law of Distress Amendment
of the m~or of Rodley, of whICh Sn: Wilhan;t l!'ranc~s Act," Thomas Cadle, Gloucester; A. Brain, Cinderford;
Georg-e Gmse bart. of Elmore Coart, IS lord, IS ID thIS .Alfred E. Dykins, Cinderford; Aaron Knight, Little-
dean; Edward Thomas Barry, Micheldean

County Police Station, Frank Webb, sergeant, &; 2 con.
stabies

v:p.arish. The area is 1,934 acres of land, 3 of water, 75 of Good Templar8' Hall, Thomas King-, caretaker

tIdal water .and 22 of fo~shore; rateab~e alu.e, £9,320 ; Town Hall, High street, Mrs. J. Hawker, hall keeper
the populatIOn of the parIsh and urban dIstrIct ill 1891 was Volunteer Fire Brigade, Tom SinImonds, captain
1,401 •

Sexton, William Crump. VOLUNTEERS.

Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, 1St Gloucestershire (Gloucester &; Somerset) Artillery
(No. 7 Company), Capt. E. W. Prevost, commanding;
Parcel Post &; Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Gf'or- Surg-.-Major J. S. Carleton, medical officer
gina R. Morse, postmistress. Letters from London & all
2nd Volunteer Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (H
parts arrive at 1.30, 5.33& 9.50 a.m. & 2. II & 3.56 Co.), Capt. Douglas J. Wintle, commanding; Arthur J.
p.m.; dispatched at 10.15 a.m. & 1.40, 9 &; 9. g j1.m.
Box closes at 9.15 p.m. but letters can be posted till Shiles, 2nd lieut.; Surg.-Lieut. P. T. Lwm, medical off
9.20 with an -extra stamp affixed. North mail arrives
PUBLIC OFFIOElbS.
at 5.33 a.m. &; dispatched at 7.15 p.m
Certifying Factory Surgeon, John Shaw Carleton L.R.C.P.
:Pillar Letter Box, North end, cleared at 9.50 a.m. &; 1.3°, & S.Irel. Manor 'house

6.40 &; 8.50 p.m . Assistant Onrseer, John George Carefield
Coroner lor the Forest Division of the County of Glou-
Wall Letter Boxes.-Station, cleared at 9.40 R.m. & 6.30
& 7.30 p.m.; &; Bullo Pill, cleared at 7.20 p.m. &; sunday cester, Clerk to the Guardians of the Westbury-on-
11.50 a.m Severn Union, to the Commissioners of Taxes for Newn-
ham & Colelord Division, Maurice Frederic Carter
Messengera are dispatched to Blakeney, Awre, Littledean,
Ruspidge &; Soudley, Cinderford, FIaxley &; Popes Hill, Inspector of W ei~hts &; Measures to Gloucestershire
Westbury-on-Severn &; Blaisdon
County Council, Forest of Dean &; Stroud Division, Jas.
BOlllton Biggs

DIRECTORY. ] GLOUCES'rERSHIRE. NEWNHAM. 255

Mediclll Officer &; Public Vaccinator, No. 2 District, West- Town Crier, Charles Joseph Hooper
bury-on~Severn Union, John Shaw Carleton L.R.C.P. &; Ferryman, Thomas Phillips
S.Irel. Manor house Water Bailiff to Severn Fishery Bo~d, Charles Knight

Regis~rar of Marriages for Westbury-on-Severn District, PLACES OF WORSIDP, with Times of Services.
Henry William Morse, Newnham; deputy, William
St. Peter's, Rev. William Gordon Baillie M.A. vicar; n
Sidney Fryer, Newnham
Registrar of Births &; Deaths, Newnham District, Fredk. a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m

Wherrett, Broad Oak Congregational, Rev. Herbert Dewey; IQ.30 a.m. &; 6
Deputy Registrar of Births &; Deaths, Newnham Sub-
p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m
District, J. J. Carefield National School (mixed), built in 1867 &; enlarged in l895,
Relieving Officer, No. I District, Westbury-on-Severn
for 250 children; average attendance, Il7 boys &; girls
Union, Frederick Wherrett, Broad Oak &; 85 infants; John Dawe, master; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Steward to the Manor of Ashleworth, Douglas Jas. Wintle Jones, infants' mistress

Steward to the Verderers of Her Majesty's Forest of Dean RAILWAY ST.A.TIONS.
&; Steward to the Manor of Rodley, James Wintle Gloucester &; South Wales, John Atkinson, station master
Bullo Pill (minerals), vacant
Superintendent Registrar, Westbury-on-Severn District,

Maurice Frederic Carter; deputy, John Shaw Carleton
L.R.C.P.lrel. Manor house

PBIVATE RESIDENTS. Button Fredk. gamekeeper to Russell Goddard James, sergeant instrnc·

Baillie Rev. William Gordon M.A. Jas. Kerr esq. J.P. Haiden green tor to 2nd Volunteer Batt. (H Co.)

(vicar), The Vicarage Camm James, baker &; confectioner, Gloucestershire Regiment

Balfour Henry T. The Red house grocer &; provision dealer Green Joseph, beer retlr. &; shoe ma

Barling William Cleophas Capital &; Counties Bank Limited Guise John Wright, solicitor, regis-

Barnard Miss, Hope villa (branch) (Charles Lucas Peploe, trar &; high bailiff of county court

Biggs James Boulton manager); draw on head {)ffice, 39 Hadingham Stephen Wallace, mana-

Boissier Edwd.S.!Wdford,Highfield vils Threadneedle street, London E C ger of Lloyds Bank Limited, &.

Boucher William Carefield John George, commission treasurer of Lydney &; District Far·

Oarleton John Shaw, Manor house agent &; assistant overseer mers' Club, The Bank

Carter Maurice Frederic, Castle ho Carefield John James, deputy regis- Hall In. W. H. sergeant instructor to

Orawshay William J.P. Hyde trar of births ,&; deaths, Newnham (No. 7 Co.) lst Gloucestershire

Dawe John, Church house district &; clerk to Churcham &; Volunteer Artillery

Dewey Rev. Herbert ~Congregationa1) Bulley school boards Headdon Wm. Hy. baker &; confectionr

Dowding William Carleton John Shaw L.K.C.P. &; S.I. Highmeadow Iron Coal Co. Limited

Dredge Richard William medical officer &; public vaccinator (Edwin Morgan, sec.) Offices

Fox Thomas Barker, Wistaria house for No. 2 district, Westbury-on- Hobbs Hy.M.R.C.V.S.L. vet. surgeon

Goold Alfred Ernest Severn union,certifying factory sur- Home Harry M.C.P. boys' school»

Guise John Wright, Highfield villas geon, deputy superintendent regis- Highfield villas

HadinghamStphn.Wallace,The Beeches trar Westbury-on-Severn district, Hooper Charles Joseph, town crier

Hardeman John medical officer to fever hospital, Jones John H. k Co. grcrs. &; drapers

Home Harry, Highfield villas Soudley &; surgeon-major to No. 7 Jones Charles Edward, beer retailer

Jones Miss Mary Isabe!, Claremont Co. Gloucestershire Volunteer Artil- Jones Joseph Chamberlain, hair dressr

house lery, Manor house King William Henry, Victoria hotel

Jones Mrs. Highfield villas Carter Maurice Frederic, solicitor, Knight Alfred, shopkeeper

Jones Mrs. William, Highfield villas perpetual commissioner for taking Knight Charles,water bailiff to Severn

Kerr Russell James J.P. The Haie; &; acknowledgments of married Fishery Board

Windham club, London women, clerk to magistrates, to Knight Jesse, coal shipping agent,.

Kerr lRussell James, jun. J.P. Cul- the urban district councils of Awre, Bullo Pill

ver ho.; & Windham club, London Newnham &; Westbury-on-Severn, &; Layton Reuben H. job master

Langdon Mrs to the guardians &; assessment com- Leverton William, tailor

Lloyd Fras. Montagu J.P. The Grange mittee of the West1bury-on...Severn Lloyd Francis Montagu, J.P.barrister,.

Lucas- Frederick Lewis' union,to the commissi{)ners of taxes The Grange

Montefiore Mrs. Thomas Law, The for Newnham &; Coleford division &; Lloyds Bank Limited (branch)(Stphn.

Old Vicarage' house to the rural district councils of East Wallace Hadingham, manager) ;

Morris Francis William, Severn ter Dean & united parishes &; of West- draw on London office, 72 Lombard

Probert Mrs bury-on-Severn, coroner for the street, London

Roberts William George Forest division &; superintendent re- Lock John, farm 'bailiff to Russell J.

Shiles Arthur John, Underhill gistrar of Westbury-on-Severn dist Kerr esq. J.P. The Grove

Shiles John, Underhill Cemetery (Maurice Frederic Carter, Long Edwin, farmer &; job master

Staunton-Harrison H. M. Merton ho 'Clerk to the burial board) Long Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments,

Thomas> Arnold J.P. Severn Bank ho Clifford Elizabeth (Miss), rope maker Severn View house

Tregelles John AlIen, Highfield villas Cook George Chester, fishmonger Long Ernest, haulier

Wintle Douglas Jas. The Old house County Court (His Honor Arthur Lunn Percy Trenavin, surgeon,.

Wintle James, The Cottage Beecher Ellicott, judge; In. Wright M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Sur-

COMMERCIAL. Guise, registrar .&; acting high gery

Akerman Thomas Spring, butcher bailiff), Town hall Martin Alice (Mrs.), Up. George P.R

Ambrose Daniel, Ship inn Cummings William George, Lower Miller Brothers, fishery lessees

Ansley Robt. A. farmer, Steer's farm George htl. &; saddler &; harness ma Morgan Frank D. organist to the

Arnold George, gardener to Russell J. Elton George, boot & shoe maker parish church &; teacher of musia

Kerr esg. J.P Ferris Henry, surveyor to the urban Morse Georgina Rout (Mrs.), post·

Baghurst Geo. farmer,Cockshoot farm district council mistress, Post office

Bailey Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ferris Jas. harbour master, Bullo Pill Morse Henry William, -secretary to

Bailey John, coal merchant &; 'goods Fire Brigade (Volunteer) (Tom Sim- Newnham Gas Co. Lim. &; registrar

agent to Gt. Western Railway Co monds, captain) of marriages for Westbury-on-

'Barling William Cleophas M.R.C.V.S. Fluck Benjamin, farmer, Ruddle Severn district

veterinary surgeon Fox John August Adam William, Moss Joseph, -saddler &; harness ma

Barnes Albert, hair dresser watch maker Nelmes &; Poole, auctioneers, valuers

Bevan Jane (Miss), apartments Freemasons (Royal Forest of Dean et estate agents, Town Hall cham-

lliggs James Boulton, inspector of Lodge, I067) (M. F. Carter, sec.; bers; &; at Monmouth

weights &; measures to the Glouces- J. S. Carleton, treasurer) Newnbam Cocoa Tavern (Mrs. H.

tershire County Council, Forest 01 French Geo.Hy.watch &; clock repairer Shank.land, proprietress)

Dean &; Stroud divisions French Thomas, boot maker Newnham Cricket Club (In.Dawe,sec)

Birks Emma (Mrs.), Railway inn &; Fryer William Sidney, bookseller &; Newnham Football Club

blacksmith, Bullo stationer & stamp distributor Newnham Gymnasium Cricket Oub-

Blanton Albert, plumber, painter &; Gas Light &; Coke Co. Lim. (Henry (F. Wellington, sec)

shopkeeper William Morse, sec) Page Jas. beer retlr. The True Heart
Blanton Mary (Mrs.), earthenware d1r Gloucestershire (~st) Volunteer Ar- Peploe Charles Lucas, manager of the-
Blnett Edmund, beer retailer. New tillery (No. 7 Co. Capt. E. W. Pre- Capital & Counties Bank Limited

Zealand inn vost, commanding; Surg.-Major J. Phillips In. painter, plumber &; glazier-

Bluett Edward,fishmonger &; greengrcr S. Carleton, medical officer) Phillips Thomas, ferryman

Bowyer John, beer retailer et shop- Good Templars' Hall (Thomas King, Philpotts James Richard, chemist &;.

keeper, Britannia inn caretaker) druggist

254 NEWNHAM. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Playsted James &, M. grocers &; dra- Sloman Henry Benjamin, commercial J. Wintle, commanding; A. J.

pers & wine & spirit merchants traveller, Highfield villas Shiles, 2nd lieut.; Surg.-Lieut. P.

Preece Henry, draper &, outfitter Simmonds Ann (Mrs.), builder T. Lunn, medical officer)

Price Fanny(Miss) &, Albert, butchers, Smlthyman & Co. wholesale &; Wintle James &; Son, solicitors

cattle dealers &; farmers family wine &; spirit, ale &, mineral Wintle Douglas James (firm, James

Probert WaIter, refreshment rooms water merchants Wintle & Son), solicitor &; 'steward

&; shopkeeper Standard Wagon Co. Limited (The) of the manor of Ashleworth

Prosser Charles William &; Co. coach (William Boucher, manager), rail- Wintle James (firm, Wintle James &;

builders &, shoeing &; general smiths way wagon builders, timber mer- Son), solicitor &; perpetual com-

Rees James, shopkeeper chants, engineers, brass &; iron missioner of taking acknowledg-

lWberts William George A.S.A.A. in- founders &; general smiths,Bullo Pill ments of married women, steward to

corporated accOlmtant Staunton-Harrison H. M. solicitor the Verderers of Her Majesty's For-

Robins Edwin, saddler Thorne George, collector for the ur- est of Dean &; steward of the manor

Selwyn Daniel, farmer, Mutlows frm ban district council of Rodley

Shapcott Henry, coal merchant Town Hall (Mrs. J. Hawker, hall Woods Samuel Wilkinson, treasurer to

Shapcott Mary Hannah (Mrs.),dress & keeper), High street the urban councils of Newnham,

mantle maker &; registry office for Trigg Lorenzo, Prudential insurance Awre &; Westbury-on-Severn; to

servants agent, Ruddle . the Westbury-on-Severn union &; the

Shiles John, tanner, bark &; timber Trigg William, coal mer. Bullo Pill rural district council &; Forest of

merchant, UnderhiU Volunteer Battalion (2nd) Gloucester Dean school board

Shortman Wm. jeweller, &, ironmngr shire Regiment (H.Co.Capt.Douglas Wooles John, tailor &; shopkeeper

NORTH NIBLEY is a parish and! village, 3 miles managed by s~arate trustees. This is the suppos~
north-east from Charfield station on the Birmingham and
birthplace, in 1484, of William Tyndale, the first trans-
Bristol section of the Midland railway, 3 south-west from
Dursley, 17 south-by-west from Gloucester and 16 north- lator of the Bible, to whose memory a monument 130 feet

by-east from Bristol, in the Mid division of the county, high was erected on the 6th of November, 1866, on a site
Berkeley hundred, Wotton-under-Edge petty sessional
division, Dursley union and county court district, and in at Nihley Knoll, presented by Lord Fitzhardinge; the

the rural deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese monument was restored in 1896, at a cost of over £200,
of Gloucester. The church of St. Martin, anciently a
chapel to Wotton-under-Edge, is a building of stone in raIsed by publiC} s!ubscription. Lord Fitzhardinge F.B.A:
t~e Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of
chancel, nave of five bays, south aisle, north porch and a who is lord of the manor, Lieut.-Col. Sir Charles Prevost

low embattled western tower with pinnacles and containing bart. the Rev. DavidEdwards M.A. of Stancombe Park

a clock and 6 l'ells: all the chancel windows are stained, (vicar here 1859-8I), John Charles Bengough esq. of
and there is a memorial window to the Rev. H. Williams,
Pc.ole, Dors.et, and Maj.-Gen. Blobert Hale, of Alderley, are
a former vicar (d. 189I) and one erected on the occasion
of the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. the Queen in 1897: the the principal landownel"s. The soil is loamy; subsoil,
chancel was rebuilt in the Early English styl~ in 1860:
the porch was erected in 1873, and a mosaic reredos added blue clay. The land is principally in pasture. The area
in 1874: the tower was partly ;rebuilt in 1896, the bells
re-hung, and a new clock, with chimes. erected, at a cost is 3,283 acres; rateable value, £5,325; the population in
of nearly [,800, as a memorial to the Rev. H. F. Jones
1891 was 784 civil, 801 ecclesiastical.
M.A. late vicar (d. 189S): the church affords 400 sit-
~ings.. The re~ster ~ates from the year 1567· The living Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act,
IS a VIcarage, WIth RIdge chapel annexed, net yearly value
[,216,i with Tesid'ence, in tthe ig"ift of Christ Church, 1882," a detached part of North Nibley, known as Waterley

Oxford, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Charles Dennis Bottom, has bean transferred to Wotton-under-Edge, two

Mason Cox M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford. The chapel detachej parts of the parish to Berkeley, and four de-
of ease at Ridge is a small building of stone, and there is
tached 'Parts to Stinchcombe, and Great and Little Good-
also a Congregational chapel. Benefactions :-The Rev.
man's Leaze added to the latter parish by Local Govern-
Thomas Lequesne Jones, incumbent fr()m 1828, left in the
year 1856 a sum of I.I,OOO, thA interest of which is to ment Board Order 14,748, March 25, 1883, for civil pur-

provide 10 coats and IO cloaks yearly, the residue being poses.

ap'Plied to the repairs of the church; the late Mrs. Jones Sexton William Philpot. .
left in 1861 [,2,000, the interest of which, in accordance '.
with lier will, is' distributed weekly in money to poor and Post Office.-¥rs. Julia. Trotman, lm.b-postmlstress. Let-
t~rs are delivered from Dursley at 8 a.m. &; 5 p.m. &,
'8ged 'Parishioners, being members of the Established
dl'spatched at 7·.45 a.m. &; 5 p.m.;. sundays, 7·45·
Church, and constant in their attendance at divine service Postal orders are ISSUed here. but not paId. The nearest

therein; Miss Mary Elizabeth Jones, sister of the late money order &; telegraph officeS'. are at Dursley &; Wot-
.ton-under-Edge, bo~h 3 miles dIstant
incumbent, left in the year 1867 [,1,000, the interest to Pillar Letter Box, NIbley Green, cleared at 4.30 p.m.;

be distributed on the 'same conditions between two poor sundays, 9· 15 a.m

persons of the parish; there are charities: of £21 for SCHOOlJS.

apprenticing, and of [,24 for distribution to the poor, Endowed (boys), built, with master's house, for 50 boys;
averag~ attendance, 40; with an endowment 3f £81
from Purnell's &; Jortin's bequests, the latter left in

1843; O. J. B. Driver, master

National (girls' &; infants), erected in 1875, mainly at the
expense of the landowners, for 150 children; average
attendance, 38 girls &; 28 infants; Miss:M. A. Gething,
mistress

(Marked thus t receive their letters Daw Henry, farmer, Fortunes fa;rm tMeek Thomas, farmer, Daisy green

·through Wotton-under-Edge.) Daw Percy, farmer, Starwall Moore Michael Jl()hn, New inn

Allway Thomas, Forthay Edwards John, farmr. Waterley bottm Organ David, shoe maker

Cox Rev. Charles Dennis Mason M.A. Foxwell Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer Organ George, farmer, Park farm

Vicarage Frape John, beer retailer Organ Thos.(Mrs.),shpkpr.Nibley grn

Davis Miss, Cotswold -cottage Frape William, farmer, Bassett court Perrett Edwin, haulier

tGifford Hon. Edgar Berkeley,Bourne Gabb Thomas, butcher Robinson George, farmer &; millet'

stream tGazard Decimus, farmer, Daisy grn (water), Sandfield

Lea Lawford Gazard JIohn, miller (water), Crowl Robinson Ste'Phen A. gr(}cer &; draper

Ponting Miss Brook mill tShearman Fredk. Wm. frmr.Howley

Seller Miss, Netherfield Hale Francis, wheelwright Smith Thomas, beer retailer

Staunton Mrs. Isle of Rha Harris Wm. farmer, Hunt's court Smythe Arthur, farmer, Kite's nest

White Miss, Rode green Jackson 'George. farmer, Forthay Summers' George, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Jordan Edwin, White Hart P.H Trotman Arthur, carpenter

Avery Dand, haulier tLee Wm. Thos. farmer, South End Tyndale's Institute (Charles Ben-

Bennett Louisa (Mrs.),frmr.Nibley ha Lewton Albert, Black Horse P.H.&; bkr nett, sec)

tBlandford RQlbt.frmr. South End frm Limbrick James, farmer, Bury hill WEfub iRobert, farmer. The Green

Buckley Robert, frmr. Burrough's crt Lucas John, grocer &; baker Williams John Thomas, shopkeeper

Camm George, frmr. Burleigh court Mason Edward, farmer Woodward WiUiam Vines, blacksmith

Cook Robert, farmer &; shopkeeper tMeek Helen (Mrs.), fTmr.Swinhay fm ..•

NORTHLEACH is a parish and small market and station on the Chipping Norton, Cheltenham and Glon-
union town, head of a county court district, and petty cester section of the Great Western railway, 7 east from
sessional division, situated amongst the Cotswold Hills,
552 feet above the sea level, about half-a-mile from the Dowdeswell station, 5 north-east from Chedworth
Seven Springs, the source of the river Leach, on the Old
Oxford and Cheltenham road and near the old Roman station, both on the Midland and South Western Junction
Fossway, 6 miles south-west from Bourton-on-the-Wat railway, between Cheltenham and Cirencester, 9 'West
from Burford, 10 north-east from Cirencester, 13 east-
south·~ast from Cheltenham, 20 east from Gloucester,

DffiECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NORTHLEACH. 255

and 84 from London, in the Eastern division of the and the Rev. Shepley Watson-Watson S.C.L. rector of

county, Bradley hundred, rural deanery of Northleach, Bootle, Oumberland. The soil is stone brash; subsoil,

archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and

and Bristol. The town is lighted with gas by a Company roots. The area of the entire parish, including Easting-

from works in the town. The church of SS. Peter and ton tithing, is 3,460 acres; rateable value, Northleach,

Paul, erected about the middle of the 15th century, is a £1,5 12 ; Eastington, £2,425; total, £3,937; the popula-

noble edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consist- tion in 1891 was, entire parish, 1,106; Northleach, 787.

ing of chancel, nave of five bays with lofty clerestory, EASTINGTON is a tithing and hamlet I mile south-

aisles with north and south chapels, south porch, and a east, and consists of a few farms and some cottages and

western tower with panelled and embattled parapet, con- the workhouse for the Northleach union. Here is a. Mis-

taining a clock and 8 bells: the porch of two bays is en- sion Room, erected on the site of an ancient church, long

riched throughout with tracery, and has a groined roof; since destroyed; it was opened for service in 1890, Mr.

and the exterior of the church is relieved by canopied Frederick Godwin A.K.O. head master of the Grammar

niches and crocketed pinnacles: the east window is School, has been licensed by the Bishop as Lay-Reader.

stained and the chancel retains sedilia: the stone stair- The population in 1891 was 319. including 45 officers and

case to the rood loft in the north aisle, and a double inmates of the workhouse; rateable value, £2,425-

hagioscope in the south or Bicknell chapel were dis- Sexton, Mark Evans.

covered during the restoration in 1884: the font con- Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance

sists of an octagonal basin, on a panelled and buttressed Office (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have

shaft: in the nave is a large brass to a wool merchant R.S.O. Gloucester added).-S. Barry Burge, postmas-

and his wife, c. 1400; and others to Thomas Fortey, ter. Letters arrive from Cheltenham at 6.30 a.m.;

woolman, ob. 1447, with defaced effigy; William Scors, dispatched at 5.50 p.m. A mail bag from Cirencester
tailor, ob. 1420, and Agnes, successive~y wife ~f each, arrives at 3.30 p.m. &; mail cart 5.20 p.m. with letters
with mutilated effigies, including some children, and from London, Cheltenham, Burford, Witney, Oxford

inscription; John Fortey, woolman, who added the clere· kc.; dispatched at 7.10 a.m. Box closes 20 minutes

story of the church, ob. 1458, with effigy under canopy before each dispatch. Letters are delivered at 7.30

and marginal inscription; a woolman and his wife, c. a.m. & 6 p.m.; sunday dispatch, 4.50 p.m
1485, with four children, a merchant's mark, and margi. Wall Letter Box.-Eastington, cleared at 4.50 p.m.;
nal inscription: John Taylour, woolman, and his wife, sundays, 7.45 a.m
c. 1490, with marginal inscription and figures of fifteen
children; Robert Serche, ob. 1501, and Anne, his wife, OOtJINTY MAGISTRATES FOR NORTHLEAOH
with four children; Thomas Bushe, woolman and mer- PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION.

chant of the staple of Calais, ob. 1525, and his wife, Joan, Waller Edmund esq. M.A., D.L. Farmington lodge,
ob. 1626, under a canopy with figures of children and in- Northleach R.S.O. chairman
scription: William Launder, priest, c. 1530; there are Eldon Earl D.L. Stowell park, Northleach R.S.O
Sherborne Lord, Sherborne park, Northleach R.S.O
also inscribed brasses to William Bicknellt ob. 1500, and Barkley Henry Chas. esq. 6 Oricklade st. Cirencester
Margaret his wife, ob. 1483, founders of the church in
1489; and to Maude Parker, ob. 1584, with an acrostic Dutton Rev. The Hon. F. G. M.A. Bibury, Fairford S.O
of 20 English verses: a memorial window has been placed Godwin Frederick esq. A.K.C. The College, :North-
in the church by the parishioners to the Rev. Joseph leach R.S.O
.William Sharpe B.A. vicar, 1875-90; the organ was pre- Lawrence Christian William esq. Sandywell park,
sented in 1883 by Mrs. Stephenson: the communion plate Andoversford R.S.O
includes a chalice and paten cover of Elizabethan date, a Madan-Pratt Rev. Henry M.A. Rectory, Great Rissing-
tall gilt chalice of 1620, and a gilt flagon and alms ton, Bourton-on-the-Water R.S.O •

plate of the date 1707-8: the churCh was restored in Stanton Rev. Canon Wm. Henry M.A. Rectory, Hasleton,
1884, under the superintendence of Mr. James Brooks, C. heltenham
architect, of London, at a cost of £3,575, and affords sit- Wil1gfield Edward Rhys esq. D.L. Barrington park, Bur-
tings for about 550 persons. The register dates from ford R.S.O
the year 1556. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Clerk to the Magistrates, Samuel Ward; office,
£135, including 187 acres of glebe, with residence, in Northleach
the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1894 Petty sessions are held at the Prison every alternate wed-
by the Rev. Clement Hutchinson M.A. of Corpus Christi nesday at 12 noon. The following places are included
College, Cambridge, and chaplain to Northleach union. in the Petty Sessional division :-Aldsworth, Aston

A Cemetery of i of an acre was formed in 1888, at a cost Blank, Little Barrington, Chedworth, Compton Abdale,
of £270; it is under the control of a Joint Burial Com- Ooln St. Dennis, CoIn Rogers, Dowdeswell, Easting-
mittee of 7 members appointed annually by the Parish ton, Farmington, Hampnett, Hazleton, Northleach, Sal.
Councils of Northleach and Eastington. The Con- perton, Sevenhamptol1, Sherborne, Shipton, Stowell,

gregational chapel is a building of stone in the Turkdean, Whittington, Withington, Windrush, Win-

Early English style, opened 13th June, 1860, 80n, Yanworth

and has 150 sittings. The former Wesleyan chapel DISTRICT HIGHWAY BOARD.

is now used as Salvation Army barracks. The Institute Meets at the Workhouse monthly.
and Reading Room in the High street was presented by
Mrs. Stephenson of Pemberton gardens, London, and Clerk, Samuel Ward
Treasurer, Joseph Rawlings, Capital & Counties Bank,
opened September, 1886, and has a library and a billiard
table given by the late vicar. The Institute was entirely Cirencester
Surveyor, John Cook
rebuilt and enlarged about 1894, and now contains a large

hall, known as the" Cotswold Hall," besides a spacious NORTHLEAOH RURAL DISTRIar COUNCIL.

reading room, vicar's room and two rooms for the care- Meets at the Workhouse, monthly, at 2.30 p.m.

takers. The market is held on Wednesday. Two statute Clerk, Samuel Ward
fairs for hiring servants are held, one on the Wednesday Treasurer, Joseph Rawlins, Capital & Counties Bank,
before and the other the Wednesday after the nth of Cirencester
October. Here is a station of the Gloucestershire county Medical Officer of Health, E. J. Ryan MacMahon, Chel-
police. The neighbourhood is celebrated for its fine tenham
breed of Cotswold sheep; annual sales are held at tht'J
principal farms in the neighbourhood, at which the sheep Sanitary Inspector, John Chas. Wane, Farmington

realize high prices. There are almshouses for 6 aged TOWN OF NORTHLEAOH TRUSTEES.

men, endowed by Mrs. AlIen and others to the amount John Bowl John Osborne Tayler

of £63, including £9 given yearly in coals and bread; William Harding Frederick Godwin J.P

and other almshouses for 6 women, endowed by the Dut- Samuel Ward William Henry Cole

ton family with £30. A charity, left in Charles n.'s Thomas Bowl Porter John Bowl, jun

reign by George Townsend, provides a shilling's worth Thomas William Tayler Samuel Throssell

of bread weekly, which is distributed to 6 poor persons Dr. John Ryan Rev. Clement Hutchinson

every Sunday; there are also 50 acres of grass land on PUBLIO ESTABLISHMENTS.
which every householder in the parish has a common

right to pasture one "milch cow." A sum of £400 was County Court, His HanoI' Arthur Beecher Ellicott RA.

bequeathed by Dr. Bedwell, formerly a physician of judge; Robert Alexander Anderson & Benjamin Ward,

Northleach, and the interest is expended every Christmas registrars; Charles Wright, high bailiff. The county

in supplying the poor with coals, and providing a dinner court office is open for business daily from 10 to 4,

for the inmates of the Almshouses. A court leet is held saturdays 10 to I. Courts are held every second

annually, at which a bailiff is elected, who dispenses the month at the prison. The following places are within

local charities. Mr. Thomas Stephens is lord of the the county court jurisdiction :-Ablington, Aldsworth,

manor. The principal landowners are Lord Sherborne Arlington, Aston Blank, Bibury, Chedworlh, CoIn St.

256 NORTBLEACH. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Aldwyns, CoIn St. Dennis, CoIn Bogers, Compton Ab. Hutchinson M.A. chaplain; John Ryan L.R.C.p. &
dale, Eastleach Turville, Eastleach Martin, Eastington,
Farmington, Hampnett, Hazleton, Little llarrington, S.Irel. medical officer; Alfred Miles, master; Mrs.
Northleach, Salperton, Sherborne, Southrop, Shipton, Elizabeth Miles, matron
Stowell, Turkdean, Windrush, Winson, Withington &;
Yanworth SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OOMMITTEE.
For llankruptcy purposes this court is included in
that of Cheltenham Charles Scott, County chambers, Meets at the Workhouse monthly, at 2.45 p.m.
Station road, Gloucester, official receiver.
Cemetery, Samuel Throssell, clerk to the llurial lloard Clerk, Samuel Ward, NortWeach
County Police Station, George Everiss, supt. &; 3 con- Attendance &i Inquiry Officers, the Relieving Officers
stables
House of Bemand, George Everiss, keeper PUllLIO OFFICERS.
Inland Bevenue Office, John Kay, officer
Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes, Samuel Ward
Collector of Poor's Rates &; Income Tax, Wm. Gardner
Superintendent of Police, George Everiss

NOBTHLEACH UNION. SCHOOLS.

The union comprises the following parishes :-Aldsworth, The Grammar school was founded in 1559, by Hugb

.A.ston lllank, llibury, Ohedworth, CoIn Bogers, CoIn Westwood esq. &; reorganised under a scheme of the

. St• .A.ldwyns, CoIn St. Dennis, Compton Abdale, Dow- Endowed Schools Commissioners, 1877; boys whose
parents are living in the town or in the neighbouring
deswell, Eastington, Eastleach Martin, Eastleach Tur-
village of Chedworth, have a prior claim to admission,
ville, Farmington, Hampnett, Hazleton, Little llarring-
&; may be received at reduced fees; attached to the
ton, Northleach, Salperton, Sevenhampton, Sherborne,
school is an exhibition of £80 yearly, founded by Geo.
Shipton, Southrop, Stowell, Turkdean, Whittington,
Tno.w&n; steenndabelseqf.oroffoCuhreydewaorsrtha,t in the reign of Charles
Windrush, Winson, Withington &; Yanworth. The Pembroke College, Ox-

population of the union in 1891 was 8,885; area,70,012 ford; there is abo a house scholarship of £ 10 yearly;

acres; rateable value in 1896, £42,978 the school endowment arising from tithes & land

Clerk to the Guardians &; Assessment Committee,Samuel amounts to about £500 yearly; boarders are received

Ward, Northleach - by the head master j the entire control &; management

Treasurer, Joseph Bawlings, Capital &; Counties Bank, of the foundation is vested in a governing body con-

Cirencester sisting of 12 members: Mr. S. Ward is clerk to the

Collectors to the Guardians &; Believing &; Vaccination governors: Frederick Godwin .A..K.C. head master

Officers, No. 1 District, Joseph Soul, Northleach; No. There is also a school endowment of £20 yearly, founded

2 District, Samuel S. Lock, Northleach by George Townsend esq. for the education of 24 poor

Medical Officers &; Public Vaccinators, Nos. I&;2 dis- scholars, which is applied to the uses of the National

tricts, John Byan L.R.C.P. &; S.Irel. Failthe, North- school, &; a provision for apprenticing a lad yearly,

leach; No. 3 district (1st division), Daniel Des both being under the management of trustees

M.R.C.S.Eng. Fairford; (2nd division), Charles National, built in 1875, &; since enlarged, for 200 child-

Harold Illoxsome L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. Fairford; No. 4 ren; average attendance, 51 boys, 47 girls &; 46 in-

district, E. J. R. McMahon L.B.C.P. &; S.Irel.Elkstone fants; Edwin Beynolds, master; Mrs. Anoie Reynolds,

house, llath road, Cheltenham Inistress

Superintendent Registrar, Samuel Ward, Northleach;

deputy, John Ryan L.R.C.P. &; S.lrel. Northleach CARRIERS TO: •

Registrars of llirths &; Deaths, Bibury sub-district, Jos. Bourton-on-the-Water-Mrs. Sarah Stroud, sat

• Soul, Northleach; Chedworth slib-district, Samuel S. Cheltenham-Edwin Young, omnibus, tues. thurs. &;

Lock, Northleach sat. returning same day; Frederick Stroud,tues. thurs.

Registrar of Marriages, WaIter Rowles, Northleach &; sat. returning same day

The Workhouse, at Eastington, is a building of stone, Oirencester-Frederick Stroud, mono &; frL returning

erected in 1836, &; will hold 200 inmates; Rev. Clement same day

Bowl John Cemetery (Samuel Throssell, clerk) Kay John, inland revenue officer

Brindle Mrs Cole Charles William, commercial tra- Larner Joseph, beer retailer

Dyer Miss veller &; sec. to the institute Lee William, farmer, Winterwel!

Garne Mrs. Roseville Cole William Henry, groeer &; butcher, Lock Samuel S. collector to the

Godwin Fdk. .A..K.C.,J.P. The College &; agent for W. &; A. Gilbey Lim. guardians, relieving, vaccination &

Holford Miss wine &; spirit merchants school attendance enquiry officer,

Hutchinson Rev. Clement M.A. Cook John, surveyor to the rural dis- No. 2 district, registrar of births &

(vicar, &; chaplain to the Work- trict council deaths, Chedworth ·sub-district.

house), Vicarage Cook Robert, mason &; plasterer Northleach union

Oughton Mrs. Vineries Craddock Frederick, farmer, Upper Long Ernest .A.rthur, furnishing &

Porter Thomas B. Cotswold house End farm, Eastington general ironm'Onger, cycle dealer •

Byan John, Failthe EarleHerbt.Cbas.music sellr.'&organist &; agent for all kinds of agricultural

Stephens John, Manor house Earle William, carpenter implements

Stephens Mrs Evans Mark, sexton Luckett Joseph, watch maker

Tayler John Osborne Everiss Geo. superintendent of police Moorman James, hairdresser

Tayler Mrs _ Gardiner Frederick William, stationer, Newport Marlha (Mlrs.), beer retailer

Tayler Thomas William printer, booltbinder &; fancy dealer Northleach &; Cotswold Almanac (F.

Walker Mrs Gardner William, poor rate &; income W. Gardiner, publisher)

Ward Benjamin tax collector Northleacb Institute (Charles William

Ward Samuel, Walton house Gasber Charles, beer retailer Cole, sec)

Williams Samuel llright, The Limes Giles E. M. &; E. J. (Mis-ses), mOO- Northleach Gas Works (Alberl Price,

COMMERCIAL. ners &; drapers manage.r; Joseph Soul, sec)

Allen Rebecca Jane (Mrs.),grcr.&;bak'r Giles George &; Son, grocers &; bakers Painter Edwd. miller (water &; steam)

Baylis William, tailor Goddard Elizh.(Mrs. ),laundss.&Shpkpr Piff George, butcher &; grocer

Bee George, carpenter Grammar School (Frederick Godwin Pinfield John, chimney sweeper

Blackwell Chas.haulier &. mail contretr A.K.C. head master) Porter Thomas Bowl. corn, coal &;

lllackweIl James, farmer &; thresh- Hall Brothers, hauliers &; hurdle mas seed merchant

ing machine proprietor, Hill farm, Hall George, coal dealer Price Albert, blacksmith 1& manager

Eastington Hall Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging house to the gas works

lloIter Richard Frederick, butcher Hall Waiter John, blacksmith Badburn Annie(Mrs.),Sherborne ArIDS

llond Thomas, farmer, Crickley llar- Harding William, butcher &; farmer P.H

row farm, Eastington Hartwell &; Sons, plumbers &; gasfittrs Rayer John, farmer, Midland farm.

llower Frederick R. chemist, every Hawketts William, shoe maker Eastington

description of flower &; garden seeds Hayward Martha (Mrs.), apartments Rayer Richard, farmer, Lower End

Bowl &; Eltome, grocers Hayward Robert, jun. grocer &; butchr farm, Eastington

Buffin John, baker Holliday Charles, shopkeeper Rogers Fanny &; Agnes (Misses), dresg

llullock William, Prince of Wales P.H Hutt William, chimney sweeper makers

llurge WellesleyJn.saddler&harness ma Hyde Robert, watch maker &; county Rouse Charles, Wheatsheaf family &;

Capital &; Counties llank Lim. (sub- court bailiff commerciaJ hotel &; posting house,

branch); O"pen wednesdays &; fri- Houlton William, farmer, llroadfield livery stables; loose boxes &c. for

days, II a.m. to 2.30 p.m.; draw on farm, Eastington ' hunting gentlemen; good accommo-

head office, 39 Threadneedle street, James William Edward, plumber dation for tourists

London E C Jeffries Mary (Mrs.), farmer Ryder Mason Verity, veterinary surgn

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NOTGROVE 257

Rowles Walt€r, registrar of marriages Stroud Frede.rick, carrier \lane John, grocer &; draper

for Northleach Stroud Sarah (Mrs.), Red 'Lion P.H. Ward Samuel, solicitor, clerk to thtl

Ryan John L.R.C.P. & S.rrel. surgeon carrier &; mail contractor magistrates, commissioners of taxes,

&; medical officer &; public vaccinator Swatton John, shoe maker to the governors (}f Northleacb

Nos. 1 & 2 districts & deputy supt. Tayler "" Co. brewers, maltsters, Grammar school &; to NortWeach

registrar, Northleach union wine & spirit merchants &; aerated rural district council, &; clerk to the

Scarrott ·Willia.m, earthenware dealer water manufactrs. Cotswo~d brewery guardians & assessment &; school at-

Blade Frederick, Union hotel & baker Tayler John Osborne, farmer tendance committees & superinten-

Smith Charles, wheelwright & carpentr Teall Albert Wood, ironmonger, white- dent registrar of NQi-thleach union

Soul Jsph. collector to the guardians, smith &; photographer & clerk to the highway board

relieving, vaccination ,& school at- Thomas Henry, draper &; clothier Westmacott Charles, land measurer

tendance officer No. 1 district & Throssell Samuel, saddler Young Edwin, carpenter, wheelwrigM

registrar of births & deaths Bibury Ward Benjamin, solicitor. registrar &; carrier

'ub-district countv• court

NORTHWICK is a tithing in the parish of Henbury, the Rev. John Hugh Way RA. of Oriel College, Oxford,

on the Welsh road from Bristol to the Old Passage, 2 who resides at Henbury. Sir John Henry Greville Smyth

miles north from Pilning station on the Bristol and Severn bart. of Ashton Court. Bristol, who is lord Qf the manor,.

Tunnel branch of the Great Western railway and 10 north- and Arthur Andrew Daubeny esq. are chief landowners.

by-west from Bristol, in the Southern division of the The soil is rich loam j sub-soil, stiff blue clay. The chief

county, lower division of Henbury hundred, Thornbury crops are wheat, beans, potatoes and pasturage. Th6

petty sessional division, union and county court district. area of Redwick and Northwick is 1,259 acres of land, 4

rural deanery of Stapleton and archdeaconry and diocese of water, 1,250 of tidal water and 1,737 of foreshore; rate~

()f Bristol. able value, £8,959; the population in 1891 was 385.

REDWICK was formerly included under Northwick Sexton, Charles Tanner.

and was also a tithing of Henbury, but was made to form Letters received from Bristol, via. Pilning, 7 a.m. & 4

part of the ecclesiastical parish of Pilning, September 2, p.m. & dispatched II.15 a.m. & 8.20 p.m. Wall Let-

1881. The church of St. Thomas, rebuilt in 1840, on the ter Box, cleared, at 6.50 p.m. The nearest money order

site Qf the old church, is an edifice of stone in the Nor- office is at Pilning; telegraph office at Tockington, 4

man style, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, miles distant

south porch and a low western tower containing 2 bells: Sandford's Charity School (mixed), built, with master'g

there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year house, in 1842, for 70 children; average attendance,

1667. This place is a chapelry, annexed with that of 57; & endowed with £60 yearly; Miss Annie EIiza.

Aust, to the vicarage of Henbury, and held since 1860 by York, mistress

Norris Oliver Norris Oliver, contractotr -& farmer Tanner M.artin, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Norris Rowland Baker, fa.rme,r & con- Taylor George, farmer

Bigwood James, farmer tractor, Church farm Wi1liams Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmet·
Gifford William, farmer
Smith Emily (Mrs.), farmer Northwick cottage

NORTON, anciently Nortune, is a village and parish, of Wotton House, Gloucester, and now the residence of
Colonel George Arbuthnot. R.A., D.L., J.P. has exten~
en the high road from Gloucester to Tewkesbury, bounded sive grounds. William Dyer esq. of Bredon, who is lord
of the man(}r of the eastern portion of the parish, and
on the west by the river Severn, and on the north by the George Norton Walker esq. of Wotton House, Gloucester,
river Chelt, 3! miles north-west from Churchdown sta-
tion on the Gloucester and Cheltenham section of the lord of the western part, and Messrs. Ball and Co. of
Stroud, are the chief landowners. The soil is a deep
Great Western railway, 5 north-north-east from Glouces-
clay, in some parts mixed with round pebble stones. bull
ter, and 7 west-by-north from Cheltenham, in the North- produces good crops, and is equally applied to pasturage,
arable and meadow; subsoil, clay. The area is 1,875-
ern division of the county, Dudstone and King's Barton
hundred, Gloucester union, petty sessional division and acres; rateable value, £2,602; the population in 1891
county court district, and in the rural deanery, arch- was 354.

deaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Parish Clerk, George Loveridge.
}lary is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style,
~onsisting .of chancel, nave, south porch, and an em- \Post :Office. Henry Stubbs, sub-postmaster. utters
battled western tower containing 6 bells: the church
was thoroughly restored in 1875-6 at a cost of nearly from Gloucester arrive at 8.30 a.m. & are dispatched
at 5.25 p.m. Wall Box cleared at 5.20 p.m. Postal
£1,400, under the direction of Mr. Waller, architect, of
Gloucester, and has 200 sittings. The register dates orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest

from the year 1668. The living is a vicarage, net yearly money order office is kit GI01lcester, & telegraph office
at Coombe Hill, 3 miles distant
value £240, including 5 acres of glebe, with residence,
Church 'Of England School (mixed), built in 1877, for 80
in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, and held children; average attendance, 43; there is a residence
since 1887 by the Rev. Robert Marks RA. of London for the mistress; Miss Palmer, mistress
University. There is a Wesleyan chapel on Norton green,
Carriers to Gloucester (passing through & returning same
built in 1841. The parish shares to the extent of from days). Green, from Tewkesbury, mono wed. & sat.;

£4 to £6 annually in Cox's (Badgworth) charity. Nor- Crook, from Apperley. sat

ton Court, -the property of George Norton Walker esq.

Arbuthnot CQI. George R.A., D.L., Cook Arth. Jsph. farmT. Court farm Pope John Raymond, farmer

.T.P. Nort.on court Duck J(}hn, farmer, Church farm Prest{ln Duncan, miller (water), Nor-

Cook William, DunSiWorth villa Dyer Wm. farmer, Norton Court farm ton mill

Ourtis Alfred Freeman James, bricklayer Preston Henry, shoe. maker

Marks Rev. Robt. RA. The 'Vicarage Green Ernest Edward, hunting stables Preston Samuel, The Orchards

COMMERCIAL. Green Mary Ann (Mrs.). farmer, The Simmons Alfd.Thos.King's Head P.R

Archer Edwin.frmr.Norton Green fMm Elms Stephens William, gamekeeper to Col.·

Bevan John Ml. farmer, Ivy farm James Edward, shopkeeper Arbuthnot

-chamberlain Frederick, farmer, Yew James Walter, assistant overseer Stubbs Francis Herbert, carpenter &

Tree farm James William. Red Lion P.H wheelwright

Chandler Sidney, farmer, World's End Loveridge William, shoe maker Wake-field William, farmeq-

farm Lyes Joseph, farmer

NOTGROVE is a parish, with a station Il miles south- and {In the east wan are ancient paintings of the Cruci-

'east, on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the fixion, St. Mary Magdalene anointing our Saviour's feet,

'Great Western railway, and is 5 miles north from North- and five other subjects; above, under richly gilt canopies,

leach, 6 south-west from Stow-on-the-Wold, 3! west are represented the Annunciation, the Adoration of the

from Bourton-on-the-Water, 19 east from Gloucester and Magi, and the Coronation 'Of the Virgin, and over these

90 from London, in the Eastern division of the county, are figures of six saints and an embattled cresting, now

'Bradley hundred, Stow-on-the-Wold petty sessional divi- much decayed: bo'th sides of the chancel were also once

mon, union and county court district, rural deanery of decorated, and the arches of the nave arcades bear traces

Northleach, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of of colour: within the communion rails, under an arch on

Gloucester. The church of St. Bartholomew is an an- the north side of the chancel, is a handsome tomb, with

cient building principally in the Perpendicular style, con- the date 1630, surmounted by the effigy of a lady, conjec-

flisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north transept, tured t{l represent a member of the Whittington family:

Muth porch and a western tower with small spire con- on the south side of the chancel lies the marble effigy of

taining 3 bells: the chanoel retains a piscina and aumbry, a man in legal robes and a ruff, supposed to represent

GLOU. 17

258 NOTGROVE. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

William Whittington; raised above and on a slab, sup- pus Christi college, Oxford, are 'the principal landownen

ported by short m.arble pillars, is the recumbent figure and have also purchased the manorial rights. The old

()f a knight in armour of the Elizabethan period, assigned manor house was the seat of the Whittington family, de-

to JoOhn Whittington, of Pauntley esq. father of the pre- scendants of Sir Richard (Dick) Whittington, the famous

ceding; the armorial bearings show that both these effi- lord mayor of London in the 14th century; it is at pre.

gies are to members ()f the Whittington family: in the sent occupied by Mr. Isaac Wood, farmer. The soil is

chancel is also 3 stone sarcophagus, and a tomb with the stone brash; subsoil, stone brash. The chief crops are

effigy of a priest vested, supposed to be that of the last wheat" barley and some land in pasture. The area is

abbot of Gloucester: the tW{) windows of the chancel and 1,530 acres; rateable value, £989; the population in

one in the nave are stained: the original Norman font, 1891 was 133.

still used, is in good ,preservati()n: the nave arcade is Sexton, William Bowles.

also Norman: in 1872 the chancel was restored at a cost Post Office. Thomas Creed, sub-postmaster. Letters

of £400, and the body of the church irl 1873 at a cost of received from Cheltenham via Railway station, arrivll'

£goo, under the direction of Mr. J. E. K. Cutts, archi- at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 4.50 p.m. Postal orders

tect, of London: there are 180 sittings. The register are issued here, but not paid. Naunton is the nearest

dates from the year 1660. The living is a rectory, net money order office, & Bourton-on-the-Water is the near-

yearly value £70, includin~ 300 acres of glebe, with resi- est telegraph office, 4 miles distant

dence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since National School (mixed), established in .1870, for 50

1858 by the Rev. Duncan Fermin Vigers M.A. of Trinity children; average attendance, 21; Mrs. Hy. Fluck,misl

College, Cambridge. The President and Fellows of Cor- . Railway Station, James Dowler, station master

:Marked. thus * letters should be ad- COMMERCIAL. Fluck Henry, wheelwright

dressed, Notgrove Station, Naunwn, Beckley James, shopkeeper *Grove Brothers, qUllJI'ryowners

Cheltenham. Bowles William, fa'l'mer Perry Frank Reuben, farmer

Perry :Mrs *Burlingham H. & Cb. coal merchants *South WaleS! & Cannock Chase Coal

Stone Miss *Comely Thomas, see-<! meil'chant & Co. Limited

Vigers Rev. Duncan Fe'rmin M.A. agricultural valuer Wood Isaac, farmer, Manor farm

Rectory Creed Thomas, shopke.eper, Post office

NYMPHSFIELD, anciently "Nymdesfield," is a applied to school purposes, and the remainder distri.
parish, 2~ miles south-east from Frocester station on the buted to the poor. The "Poulton Trust" provides
Briswl and Birmingham section of the Midland railway, £2 I9s. annually for Protestant education in the parish.
4! south from Stonehouse, 4 north-east from Dursley and On an eminence in the parish, on the borders of Fro.
13 south from Gloucester, in the Mid division of the cester, overlooking the vale of the Severn, is an ancient
county, Berkeley hundred, Dursley county court district, British burial place, explored in 1861 by the Cotswold
'Union and petty sessional division, and in the rural dean- Naturalists' Club. The mansion of William Leigh esq.
ery of Stonehouse and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou- J.P. who is lord of the manor and chief landowner, in
cester. The parish church of St. Bartholomew, re-erec- Woodchester Park, stands partly in Nymphsfield and
ted, with the exception of the tower, in 1863, in the partly in the parish of Woodchester. The soil is clayey;
Early first Pointed style, consists of -chancel, nave of four subsoil, stone beds. The chief crops are wheat, barley.
bays, north aisle, north-west porch, vestry, organ cham- and some land in pasture. The area is 1,870 acres; rate-
ber, and an embattled western tower, ()f Perpendicular able value, £1,558; the population in 1891 was 235.

date, with pinnacles, containing a clock and one bell: the Parish Clerk and Sexton James Daniels.
internal fittings are of oak: there are 220 sittings. The '..
register of burials dates from the year 1678, marriages
1680 and baptisms 1684, and it contains a record of the Post Office. :Mrs: Rannah Gmgell, sub-postmistress.
pr()gress of James H. through the parish, Aug. 22, 1687. L.etters are received throu~h Stonehouse at. 8. 10 a.m. ;
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £200, including dispatched ~t 4·35 p.m. Postal orders are Issued here,
but n?t paid. The .near~st mDney order & telegraph
27 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord office it at Uley, 3 miles distant

Chancellor, and held since 1895 by the Rev. James Silo Church of England School (mixed), built in 1846, & en.
vester M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. Here is a
Catholic chapel dedicated to St. Joseph, and a Baptist larged & a school house built in 1865, for 80 children;

ch.apeJ. There is a charity of £7 4s. of which part is average attendance, 37; Benjamin Prior, master; Mrs.

B. Prior, mistress

Leigh William J.P. Woodchester PalI'k Drew George Thomas, farmer, Park fm Williams Nebuchadnezzar, farmer,

Silvester Rev. J ame.s M.A. Rectory Fisher J ulia (Mrs.), shopkeeper Tinkley fa;rm

COMMERCIAL. Griffiths DaTid, farmer, Field farm Witchell .A.l'thur H. bacon factor, Th&

Bishop JamesWilliam,frmr.C<lUrt farm Mills Emanuel, baker Rayes

l30wsher Sarah (Mrs.), Rose' &; CraWl. Shelton Llewellyn. blacksmith Witchell Hy. (Mrs.), frmr. Str~t frm

P.H. & farmer Smith Swindoniah (Mrs.), shopkeep"l

OAKRIDGE is 3 hamlet and village~ near the Thames are wheat, turnips and some land in pasture. The area

and Severn canal, and was formed into an ecclesiastical is 1,300 acres; the population in 1891 was 818.

pariSh Aug. 10, 1849~ from the parish of llisley; it is 2! TU~LEY is 2 miles north-east; Far Oakridge, 1 mill'

miles east from Erimscombe station on :\the Swindon, east; 'Vater Lane, I mile north; Daneway, I mile and

Stroud and Gloucester branch -of the Great Western rail- a half east. The following tW() hamlets have been added

way, 5 east from Stroud and 12 south-east from Glouces- to the new ecclesiastical parish of France Lynch; Bourn's

ter, in the Mid division of the county, Bisley hundred Green, 1 mile north-west; Avon Edge Green, 1 mile west.

and civil parish, Stroud petty sessional division, union Parish Cerk, Frederick Gardiner.

and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Post Office. Oakridge Lynch.-Mrs. Jane Wright, sub·

Bisley and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The postmistress. Letters thr{)ugh StrDud, via Chalford,

church of St. Bartholomew is a m()dern building of stone, arrive at about 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4.35 p.m. week

in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, days only. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.

~outh porch and an embattled western tower containing The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Chal-

a clock and one bell: there is a memorial window to the ford, 2 miles distant

Rev. Charles Raymond Barker M.A. Oxon. first vicar of Wall Letter Boxes, Far Oakridge, cleared at 4.25 p.m. k

this parish: the church affords about 200 sittings. The Tunley cleared at 4.30 p.m. week days only

register dates from the year 1835. The living is a vicar- SCHOOLS.
age, net yearly value £144, including z! acres of glebe, National (mixed & infants), built about 1860, fQr 150

with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, children; average attendance, 120; there is a residence

and held since 1895 by the Rev. Robert Linguard Simkin for the master; William .AlIen, master; Mrs. Adelaide

L. Th. of Durham University. There is a Wesleyan K. .A.11en, mistress

chapel, built in 1874. Sir John Edward Dorington bart. Wesleyan (mixed), built abont 1£64, for 60 children;

who is lord of the manor, Matt-hias Baker Driver esq. average attendance, 40; Miss Mary Ann Gardiner,mist

and William Baker Driver esq. are the chief lanaowners, Carrier. To Stroud, Thomas Whiting, mono wed. fri,

The soil is clayey; subsoil, oolite rock. The chief crops &; s a t . . •

OAKRIDGE. COMMERCIAL. Runt Edwin, farmer, Hourne's green

Allen William, sen. pianoforte tuner Runt George', tiler & plasterer
Bucknill William, wheelwright, Tunley Pepworth Wm. gTCF.& baker, Wat~r la
Davies Mrs. Watercombe house

Fowler William, nighfie.ld, Water lane Gardiner Joshua, farmer ' Rowles Josiah, farme'l', Bonrne's green

Simkin Bev. Ro~ Linguard L.Th. Hayden Samuel, shopkeeper, Water la Smith William, 'Nelson inn

Vicarage Hill Thomas, Crown P.R. Water lane Stephens Richard, farmer

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 259OLDBURY-UfON-SEVER~.

Twissell Isaac, farme~, Bowns pool OAKRIDGE LYNCH. Harden Edward, Butchers' Arms P.R.
&; butcher .
Whiting.Ann (Mrs.),Bricklayers' Arms Driver Mrs. Lilly Horn house
Walker John, farmer
P.R. Daneway (letters through Butt Alfred, shoo maker
Whiting J9seph, farmer, Ware
Cirencester) Gardiner Ellen (Miss)" farmer Whiting Thomas, shopkeeper &; carrier

Williams Geo. Hy. frmr. Bourne's grn Peacey John 'Thomas, shopkeeper

UPPER and LOWER ODDINGTON are two [18o, including 190 acres of glebe, with residence, in
small villages forming a township and parish, on the the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1890
Oxfordshire border, 1 mile south-west from Adlestrop by the Rev. Henry Buller He'berden M.A. of Exeter Col-
station on the Oxford and Worcester branch of the Great lege, Oxford. The charities, amounting to about £14
Western railway, 2 miles east from Stow-on-the-Wold, yearly, are distributed to the poor. Oddington House,
and 29 east-by-north from Glouce5ter, in the Eastern the seat of the Hon. John Talbot Rice J.P. is an ancient
division of the county, upper division of Slaughter hun- stone mansion, pleasantly situated overlooking the river
dred, Stow-on-the-Wold petty sessional division, union Evenlode. The Hon. J. TaIbot Rice, who is lord of the
and county court district, rural deanery of' Stow, arch- manor, Frederick Horne esq. of Moreton, and the rector,
deaconry of Oirencester and diocese {)f Gloucester. The are the principal landowners. The soil is stone brash;
old parish church of St. Nicholas, situated about half a subsoil, the same. The chief crops are wheat, oats,
mile from the village, in a vale surrounded by wooded beans and roots. The area is 1,813 acres; rateable value,
scenery, is a .fine building of stone, chiefly in the Early [2,988; the population in 1891 was 470.
English style, with a Norman doorway, and consists of
Parish Clerk, Thomas Miles.
chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle and south porch,
Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & .Annuity &; Insurance Office,
and a tower containing 5 bells: the south aisle retains a Lower Oddington.~William John Mace, sub-postmas-
tel'. Letters through Moreton-in-Marsh, arrive at
piscina and some traces of mural paintings: the church 9.25 a.m. & 2·35 p.m.; box ic edarl' at 9.30 a.m. &
is. now uset ddfo'r fun8erals o'ndly. Tbhet churcthhof thilel Ascen.- 5.10 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Adlestrop
Slon, erec e III 1 52, nu way e ween e v ages, lS railway station, I mile distant
a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting
of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, north porch, Wall Letter Box, Upper Oddington, cleared at 9·35 a.m.
a small turret over the chancel arch containing 2 bells,
&; 5. 20 p.m
and a bell-cote -over the north porch containing a clock ~ational School (mixed), built, with residence for mis-
and one bell: there are several stained windows: the
church affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the tress, in 1844. for 81 children; average attendance,
'year 1549. The living is a rectory, net yearly value 67; Miss E. M. Ashton, mistress

LOWER ODiJJINGTON. Rainb{)w Richard, farmer Busson Edwin, farmer

Beecher Capt. Charles Adrian Gough, Scarlett Stephen, farmer Oook Joseph, farm€r

Oddington lodge Smith William, baker Curl'ie Herbert Frands, private tuition

Chasty William Walk€1l' Joseph, Railway inn &; boarding establishment, Spe! ~

Heberden Rw. Henry Buller M.A. Williams Edmund, carpenter, wheel- Bona lodge. See advert

Rectory wright, undertaker, painter & hou8€ Gorton Ellen (~Irs.), beer Il'etailer

Ri'Ce Hon. John Talbot J.P. Odding- decorator Harbert Jane (Miss), fMmer

ton house Williams John, blacksmith, &; Fox inn Home Frederic Thomas, farmer

COMMERCIAL. UPPER ODD~TOX. Howes John, shopkecpe'r
Kempson George, butcher &; farmer
Bostin William, shoe maker

Galey William, shopkeeper Austin William Pegler Frank, farmer

Groves George, farmer Johnson Capt. 'WiLiam, Fe:rnbank Surch George, carpsnter
Keen .Alfred, blacksmith Stayt Edward, farrmer
Turner James, farmer •
Mace William John, grocer &; draper, COMMERCIAL.

Post office Andrews John D. beer retailer \Villiams John, farmer

OLD:BURY-ON-THE-HILL, a village amalgamated March, 1883, with the adjoining p~rish of Didmarton,
which see.

OLD:BURY-UPON-SEVERN is a village, and has Pembroke College, Cambridge. There is a \Vesleyan
been formed into a civil parish from Thornbury, under chapel. In this parish are two Roman camps. Edward
Stafford Howard esq. of Thornbury Castle, who is lord
2,the provisions of the" Local Government Act, 1894" (56 of the manor of OIdbury, William Levi Cornock esq. of
OIdbury House, James Jefferies esq. of Harefield Hall,
and 57 Vict. c. 73); it is miles north-west from Bristol (lord of the manor of Cowhill), William Osborne
Thornbury terminal station of a branch of the Midland Maclaine esq. of Kyneton House, Thornbury, and Edward
railway, and 13~ north from Bristol, in the Southern Andrew Sanders esq. of Stoke House, Heavitree, Exeter,
division of the county, Thornbury hundred, petty ses- are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy i subsoil,
sional division, union and county court district, rural clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, potatoes, fruit
and some land in pasturage. Cider of excellent quality
deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese of is made here. The area is 3,975 acres of land and 3.014
Gloucester. The ecclesiastical parish was formed Sept. of water; rateable value, .£8'484; the population in
15, 1863. The church of St. Arild occupies the site of 1891 was 672.
a Roman camp and is an ancient building of stone, in
SHEPHERD18E, 3 miles north, and C01YHILL, ~
the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, west, are hamlets.
aisles, porches and a tower at the east end of the south
Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; AnnuifJr &; Insurance Office. ,
aisle, with pierced parapet and tall pinnacles, containing Henry Williams, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from.
one bell = there was originally a spire, but this was blown Thornbury R.S.O. at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.50 p.m.
down in 17°2: in 1885-6 the church was thoroughly The nearest telegraph office is at Thornbury, 4 miles
restored and the south aisle and porch rebuilt, at a cost
1)f £1,700, and affords 200 sittings. The separate re- distant
gister dates only from 1700 ; all earlier entries relating National School (mixed), built in 1854 k enlarged &; a
to this place are included in the registers of Thornbury.
The living was declared El rectory July 10, ~866, net new class room added in 1897, for 140 children; aver-
yearly value £180, including 7! acres of glebe, with resi- age attendance. IIO; John A. Aspland, master
dence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held

since 1895 by the Rev. Alfred Jones Ilarnal'd M.A. of

Bamard Rev. Alfred J"one's M.A. Cannon Fanny (Mrs.), fall'IIler, Bolt Righna.m George Cox, jun. farmer~

Rectory, ShepherdinEll farm, Naite West End farm

C{)rnock John Child John, farmer, Naite HuIbert Samuel, farmer

Cornock William Levi, OIdbury house Cornock John, jun. farmer &. cider JenkinSl William, farmer

Young Mrs. Naite grower, Shepherdine Jones .Tulia (Mrs.), beer retailer

COMMERCIAL. Cornock William J oe, farmer &; fisher. Knapp Decimus, farmer &. fisherman

Allen Frederick, farmer, Cowhill man, Salmon lodge May William, shopkeeper

Allen John, cider grower Clutterbuck William, farmer MOTgan :Mary (Mlrs.), shopkeepe,r

.AlIen William, farme~, Cowhill Day Ann (Mrs.), farmer &. cid€r growr Pegg Samuel, jun. farmer &; cidet

Barber George, .farmer, Shepherrdine Day John, farmer &; cider grower grower, Knights farm

Barber Hy. frmr. Poplars farm, Naite Dorney Jose-ph. farmer Perry Arthur WeEington, farmer k

Barber Stephen, farmer, Shepherdine Grove Thos. Selman, farmer, "West end cider ~ower

Bennett Charles, grocer, Naite Hall Thomas, farmer Perry Georg8t, farmer k cider grower

Bruton Eli &; .sons,carpntrs.& wheelwts Highnam George Cox, farmer Phjpps William, blfl.Ck8mith

GLOU. 17*

260 OLDBURY-UPO~-SEVERY • GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Prewett Elizabeth (Mrs.), coal mer Russell George Henry, Ship P.H Thomas John, shopkeeper

Ricketts Wm. New inn, ~hepherdine Sanigar Edwa1'd Bartlett, yeoman, Webb Alfred, grocer, Naite

Riddle Frederick, farmer & carrier ShepheTdine Werrett George, farmer & cider grOWl'.

RobertSt Mary (Mrs.), cider retailer & Sanigar Edward Bartle.tt, jun. farmer Camp farm

farmer, Cowhill & cider grower, Shepherdine Wilcox Albert, farmer & cider grower,

Rugman Job, farmer Sharp John, commercial traveller, Shepherdine

Rugman Martha (Mrs.), farmeq- Shepherdine Wilcox Reuben Taylor, frmr.Rook fnn

Russell Charles, fisherman Sharp John, jun. farmer & cider Williams Chas. farmer, Churngate fnn

RusseR Emma (Miss). farmer & cider grower, Shepherdine Williams Hy. shoe makerr-, Post office

grower Sharp Mary (J\'lliss), frmT. Shepherdine Williams IWbt. frmr. Yew Tree fann

OLDI,AND is a hamlet, 2 miles north from Bitton acres; rateable value, £21,348; the population in 18g1

station on the Midland railway and si east from Bristol, was-hamlet. 8,837; parish, 1,856.

and was in part formed into an ecclesiastical parish from Parish Clerk. Francis E. Derrick.

the parish of Bitton. Gloucestershire, June 28, 1861; it Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,

is in the Southern division of the county, Bristol county Oldland Common. James John Thatcher. sub-post.
master. Letters arrive from Bristol at 7. 15 aom. &
court district, Keynsham union, Lawford's Gate petty
sessional division. rural deanery of Bitton and archdea- 2.10 p.m.; dispatched, 1·5 & 6.25 p.m. week days
conry and diDcese of Bristol, and is within the area of only. Bitton railway station is the nearest telegraph

the Urban District Council of Kingswood. The church office, 2 miles distant
Wall Letter Box, Longwell's green, cleared at 4 p.m
~otfylSe,t. Anne is a building of stone in the Early English
consisting of apsidal chancel, nave. transepts, with Police Station, John Chas. Edwards,sergt. & 2 constables

an open turret containing one bell: seven of the windows

are stained, and there are 300 sittings. The register SCHOOLS.
dates from the year 1814. The living is a vicarage,
gross yearly value £3 16, including 10 acres of glebe, S
with residence, in the gift of the Vicar of Bitton, and
For Oldland chool Board, see Kings'Wood.
held since 1888 by the Rev. Herbert Adolphus Cocker
M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Here are Congrega- Board (mixed) (formerly llritish), under Bitton School
Board, established in 1844' for 320 children; average
tional, Primitive Methodist and Baptist chapels. There attendance, 17I boys & gl1'ls & 89 infants; Frederick
are collieries in the neighbourhood. Edward Stafford Pope, master
Howard esq. of Thornbury Castle, is lord of the manor,
and the trustees of the late O. J. Whittuck esq. are National (mixed), established in 1837, for 230 children;
principal landowners. ~he a.rea of the hamlet is 2,615 average attendance. 156; William Austin, master;
Mrs. J3ritton, infants' mistress

Carrier to Bristol.-Ham'blin. daily

l'lUVATE RESIDENTS. England Henry, painter Lovell Charles, hair dresser

Atchley Henry William, Oldland haJ. England lsaac, b~o~ maker LoveU Samuel, boot maker

Biggs Mrs. Rock cottage England Luther, Jomer Lovelock WaIter, beer ret. North com
~key Rev. H~rbert Adolphus M.A. Fry Eleanor (:Mrs.), draper Morgan Edwin. tailor
Vicarage Fry Luth6ll", accountant Morgan Edwin Sprankling, grocer &;

Cattle Rev. Henry (O;lngregational), Fry Solomon, boot manufacturer draper

The Manse Fudge AlbOO't, -carpenter Mbrgan J esse, carpenter

Elmes Arthur Fudge Edward, accountant Morgan William, shoe maker

Escott Frederick Fudge John, carpentei' Mortimo1'e' George, builder
Fudge Jesse Fudge Peter, farmer, B~ Hall fMm Mortimore Philip, hatter

Johnson George Cadbury heath Garrett John, farmer, Hlghfield fal'm Neads O. -& E. boot & shoe manufrs

Le3lr frank • Gerrish Henry, butcher Neads Henry (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Old·

Lovell Alfred Gerrish John, beer retailer land common
Lovelock Edward Gingell S.am~el, carpenter
,Short Rowland Hall ~enJamlll, grocer Ollis William, farmer
Hardlll~ George, boot maker
Quarman William Henry, farmer
Shepherd John, machinist

COMMERCIAL. Hathway James. grocer Short Enoch, baker

..Adams & J6'fferies, carpenterSl Hes Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeepeq- Short Luther, insurance agent

Adams Emily (Mrs.), groce'r -& draper Lacey John, boot & shoe maker. Tanner John, mason, Cowhorn hill

Bayer Charles & Co. stay manufact1lJ1's Cadbury heath TaY'tor John, shoe maker

.Bush Selina (Mrs.), beer retailer Lear Alfred, Crown & Horse Shoe P.B Tha.tcher A. K. & Co. grocers & drprs

Calford Samuel, smith LeaI' James, shopkpr. North common Williams Charles, farmer

Cole Edward, beer retailer Long George, plasterer Wilmot Chas. shopkpr. OadbUil'Y heath

'Oryer Chllll"les, butcher Lovell Alfred, boot & shoe maker Woodington Frederick, boot manufcbr

·OLVESTON is a village and parish, including the The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a
'16thing of Tockington, the hamlet of lnst, and part of vicarage, net yearly value £520, including 36 acres of

'the hamlet of Rudgway annexed: Olveston is on the high glebe, with reSlidence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter

Toad from Sodbury to Old Passage ferry (now disused), 3 of Bristol, and held 'Since 1885 by the Rev. James Edmund
miles N.E. from Pilning station, Gt. Western Railway. and Vernon M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. There are
3 miles south-west from Thornbury terminal station of a Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels. The Friends'

branch of the Midland railway and 10 north from Bristol, burial ground, formed 1656, is now closed. Fairs are
,in the Southern diviSIon of the -county, Lower Langley held at 'fockington on the 9th of May and 6th of Decem-
and Swineshead hundred, Thornbury petty sessional divi- ber, yearly for ~attle. The charities dt:rived from funds
sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of left by Danvers Ward in 1829, and by William Dunnett in
Stapletim and archdeaconry and diocese of Bristol. The 1839, ure of £12 yearly value, and are distributed in
church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone, con- bread to the poor. Lieut.-Col. Henry Thomas Salmon,

sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an em- who is lord of the manor of Tockington; G. A. Fullerton

battled central tower, with crocketed pinnacles. containing esq.; T. Bush esq. and Edward Harwood esq. of Wood·
a clock and 6 bells: the base of the tower, with its piers house, Tockington, are the chief landowners. Robert C.
. -and arches, and the nave arcades are Norman work. and Cann-Lippincott esq. of Over Court, Almondsbury, is
·there is a sepulchral arch of the Transition pp.riod in the lord of the manor of Olveston. The soil is light and

north aisle: the windows, the upper part of the tower and loamy; subsoil, principally limestone. The chief crops
fl sepulchral arch in the south aisle are Perpendicular: are wheat, beans, potatoes, with some land in pasture.

.there is a brass with effigies in tabards to Morys Denys The population of Upper Tockington tithing and of Olves-

esq. and his son, Sir Walter Denys K.B. one of the ton and Cote tithing are included with Olveston. The
knight·s made on the creation of Prince Arthur as a knight area is 4,571 acres, including Tockington; rateable value,

of the Bath, Nov. 29, 1489; Sir Waltel' was lord of the £11,252; the population in 1891 was 1,427 civil, r,435
,manor, and died in 1496: within the sepulchral arch in ecclesiastical.

the north aisle is a gravestone (removed from the chan· RUDGWAY is a hamlet partly in this and partly in

eel), and inscribed to Ralph Greene, vicar 159°-1639: the AlveJston parish. For list of names see Alveston.
•church plate, comisting of two chalices, two patens and By Local Government Board Order 18,160, dated March
an alms dish, is inscribed with his ,initials and the date 25, 1885, a detached part of this parish. known as Cote
".I634: in November, 16°4, the tower, then surmounted Farm, was amalgamated with Aust.
-with a lofty steeple, waSl destroyed by lightning: under Parish Clerk, Daniel Addis.
-the parapet of the present tower is the date 1606: the Post Oflice, Olveston. John Miller Dyer, sub-postmaster.
~hurch waS' considerably enlarged and repaired in 1840, Letters arrive from Almondsbury R.S.O. at 8030 aom.
·and in 1888-9 the interior was thoroughly restored and & 6050 p.m.; dispatched at 4.30 & 7.10 pom.; 11015
1"e-se::lted with open 'benches, and now affords 500 sittings. a.m. on sundays. Postal orders are !ssued here, but

DIRECTORY.] GLO UCESTERSHIRE. OXENHALL. 261

not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office Elberton, built in 1836, for 195 children; average at-
tendance, 70 boys, 40 girls; there is a house for the
is at Tockington, I mile distant master; 'William Stafford Green, master
Infant, Oldown, built in 1857, for 85 children; average
post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. R, Express Delivery, attendance, 63; :Mrs. Riddiford, mistress

Parcel Post & Insurance & Annuity Office, Tockington. CARRIERS TO BRISTOL.

-William FrQlst, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
Almondsbury R.S.O. at 8.5 a.m. & 6.10 p.m.; dis-

patched at 4.45 & 7.30 p.m

SOHOOLS. John Sams, tues. & fri.; .Amos Watkins, from Aust, tues.

National (mixed), for the joint parishes of Olveston & thurs & sat.; John Gough, from Littleton, wed. & sat

OLVESTON. Lambert Mary (Mrs.), frmr.& butcher Todd Robert, Harts ~ottage

Calcott James John The Green Irwin Stmvart M.B., B.Ch. SUJrgoon, Ward Mrs. Danvers, The Grove

C<>ok Alvah JameoS 'New Leaze medical officer & public vaccinatQr, Williams Alfonzo, The Elms
Al~ndsbury district, Thornbury
Edwards Mr9. Ha"; house COMMERCIAL.

Harford William Henry D.L., J.P. 01- Ulllon, The Green
down house Lansdown George, farmer & butcher Bennett Henry, farmer, HDme farm

Rarford Wm. Alfd. J.P. Oldown house Li~tle Gideon, baker . Crew Thomas, grocer '& baker
M~ll~rd In.. C.carpenter & wheelwrIght Frost 'William, grocer, Post office
Irwin Stewart M.B. The Green

Miller Mrs. The Down house MIlliner Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Gifford Esther &; Susan (Misses),frmri

Paget Maj. Wellesley Lynedoch Henry, Organ Edwin, White Hart P.H. & tiro. Grosvenor William, mille'r (water)

The Elms ber merchant Hicks Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Rawlings Chal'1es OrganErnest Herbert Theophilus Paul, Jarrett Alfd. carpenter & wheelwright

Vernon Rev. Jas. Edmd. M.A.Vicarage farmer. . Jones Joseph, farmer
Organ Jas.Ironmonger & general slUllth ~lillard James, farmer, Awkley
Wintle Hamilton The Green

Wintle Perey Ge'orge PitcherArthur,carpenter & wheelWTght Olive Frederick, carpenter

COMMERCIAL. Sams John, carrie'r Penny Ellen (M!i.ss), farmer

Sindry G. & W. G. agricultural &; Pike William (MT$.), farmer

Addis Daniel, registrar of biTths.& me-chanical engineers, brassfounders, Poole James, farme-r, Pilning farm

deaths for Almo~dsbury sub-district. wheelwrights & smiths Roberts William, farmer

of Thornbury umon Stockden James, farmer, MJead farm Skuse Daniel, tiler & plasterer
Addis Jan:u~s, shopkeeper. Ta.y'lor William, fa.rmer, Court farm S!purway Henry William, farmer

Alpass Milton, farmer & graZIer, The Vooght ·Wm. FTederick, market grdnr Stephens George, butche·r

Green Vowles Charles, farmer Stephens James Giffard MJ.R.C.V.S.

Collins Ellen A. (Mliss),grocr.& draper Watkins Henry, farmer v€"terinary surgeon
Stephens Joseph, farmer & assistant
Cossham John & S~ns, marons White Alfred, fa.rmer

Davis Charles, farmer, Haw lane Williams Edward,farmer,Wallning frm overseer, &; surveyor to commis-

Davis Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer & drpr Williams Henry, farmer, The Green sioners of sewers, Awkley

Dye,r EdwllJrd, beer retailer, Oldown Williams Joseph, farmr. Greenditch st Stl'phens Joseph, jun. farmr.Woodhs&
Dyer John Miller, saddler & Post office Williams Mary (Mrs.), farmer, OlveoS- Stephens William John, Swan P.H

Edwards Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper ton green Whitchurch In. Wickham, blacksmith

Edwards Richard, carpenter TOCKINGTON. Wilkins George, boot maker
Embley William, saddler

'England Hezekiah, farm bailiff, Haw la Harwood Edward J.P. Woodhouse INST.

Fisher Abel (Mrs.), farmer Roberts Thomas, Tockington court (Letters through Pilning, Bristol.)

Haskins John, market gardener Salmon Lieut.-Col. Henry Thomas Cullimore .A.rthur, farmer

Hicks Thomas Collins, grocer, baker & M.A., D.L., J.P. Tockington manor Ford Charles, farmer

general shopkeeper Salmon Henry Roope Pomeroy J.P. Isaacs Henry, farmer

Humphreys Hy. Geo.plumber & glazier Tockington manor Smith Henry, farmer

OWLPEN, or Oldpen, is a parish, 3! miles south from glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor,
and held since 1886 by the Rev. William Bradshaw Benison
Frocester station on the Bristol and Birmingham section
M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at mey.
of the Midland :railway, 3 east from Dursley, IS! south The Owlpen Park estate, one of the oldest in the county,
from Gloucester and 107 from London, in the Mid division was originally granted to that family by one of the earls
of the county, Berkeley hundred, Dursley petty ses'sional of Berkeley: the Daunts, a family of eminence in England
division, union and county court district, and in the rural and Ireland, acquired the property by marriage with the
deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou-
heiress of Owlpen, and the Stoughtons, an ancient Irish
cester. The church of the Holy Cross, rebuilt in 1828, family, by marriage with the heiress of the Daunts. Mrs.
is an edifice of stone, in the Early English style, coll'sist- Rose Trent-Stoughton, widow of Thomas Anthony Stough-
ing of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower with ton esq. and now wife of Col, Harrison Walke John Trent-
pimlacles, containing one 'bell: a reredos of alabaster wall Stoughton, is lady of the manor and sole landowner. The
presented to the church in 1887 as a memorial to Thomas soil IS sandy loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are
Anthony Stoughton esq. by his widow. and the walls of wheat, barley and pasturage. The area is 8Il acres;
the chancel were at the same time inlaid with mosaic: rateable value, £915; the population in 1891 was 108.
the chancel and vestry were added in 1875, and the Sexton, Henry Grimes·.
church restored at a cost of £1,000, under the direction Letters from Dursley, via lJley, arrive at 9 a.m. mey, I
of Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architect: it has 180 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1668. The living- is a chap- mile distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph
elry, annexed by Order in Council since 1872 to the rectory
of mey, joint net yearly value £268, including 18 acres of office
The children of this place attend the school at mey

Trent-Stoughton Col. Harrison Walke Garn Fredk.Wm. farmer,Owlpen farm ~icholls Gibert, farme.... Dingle- farm

John, Owlpen park Holloway Francis Charles Norris, far. Tudor John, farmer, Woodcock farm

Bailey Richard John, farmer, Summer mer, Luggershall

field farm

OXENHALL, anciently called Horsenehal, is a parish, 1868, under the direction of the late Mr. Middleton,

consisting entirely of scattered dwellings, I mile north- archItect, of Cheltenham: there are 150 sittings. The
existing register dates from 1665; the earlier register is
wes>t hom Newent station on the Glouce.ster, Ledburyand supposed to hc.ve perished in 1664, when the vicarage
house was destroyed by fire. The living is a vicarage.
Worcester branch of the Great Western railway, and 9 grcss yearly value £100, including 20 acres of glebe, with
north-west from Gloucester, in the Forest of Dean divi- residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and
sion of the county, BoUoe hundred, Newent petty ses- held since 1889 by the Rev. John Horn Lorimer M.A. of
sional division, union and county court district, rural
St. John's College, Cambridge, who is also vicar of
deanery of North Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Pauntley. A vein of coal and ironstone 'has been dis-
Gloucester. A stream called" Ellbrook," which takes its cc·vered on the estate of the late R. F. Onslow esq. 'and
rise in the county of Hereford, I11DS through this place, coal was once worked in the neighbourhood at a tot'llf
depth from the surface of 140 yards, where a seam of Cl9al
and falls into the Leadon near Higbleadon Court. The
8 feet II inches thick was met with, but the wOI'king is
church of St. Anne is a. building of stone, in the Gothic now suspended. Waterworks are now (1897) ~g con~
structed here, at an estimated cost of about £4<J,000, in
style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an part for the supply of the city of Gloucester; the jVround

embattled western tower, with spire, containing :I bells: was the gift of the late Capt. Onslow. AndjneW Richard

in the chancel are two memorial windows', one of which
was erected to John Fendall, d. 1862, and his wife, d.

1878: the font is of lead and of early date: tbp. church,

with the exception of the tower and spire, was rebuilt in

262 OXENHALL. GLO UCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Onslow e9q. of The Furnace, is lord of the manor and I 1883, a detached part of Pauntley parish was transferred

chief landowner. The lay impropriator of the rectorial ! to Oxenhall for civil purposes.

tithes is Mrs. Tennant, of Upton-on-Severn. The soil is, COL£) H.ARBOra was the site of a Roman building
in general, a rich .sandy loam, but in some places in- used as a refuge by traveliers.
clining to clay; subsoil, sand, rock, ironstone and coal.

The land i!r in pasture, arable, meadow and wood; of IIILLEND GREEN, north-west, and Woodend Green,

timber trees, the oak and elm thrive luxuriantly; the west, are places here.

arable land lis applied to rye and wheat; the land on Sexton, Charles Steward.

which the latter grows is called bastard land; apple and Letters from Gloucester, via Newent, arrive at 6.20 a.m.

pear trees are planted in the fields, and grow with great Wall Box, at Four Oaks, cleared at 7 p.m. Newent, I

luxuriance. 'The area is 2,250 acres; rateable value, mile distant, is the Dearest money order & telegraph

£2,946; the population in 1891 was 218 civil, 190 ecclesi- office

astical. National School (mixed), built in 1841, for 59 children;

By Local Government Bqard Order 14,638, March 25, average attendance, 45; Mrs. JaI'ltes Henry BerkleY,nUst

Davies Hugh, MarS'ha.11s DowdesweU Thomas, farmer, Lower ho Keyse Charles, gamekeeper to A. R.

Lorimer Rev. In. Hom M.A. Vicarage Golding George, farme.r, Holders Onslow esq. Four Oaks

Onslow .Andrew Richard, The Furnace Gurne·y Elijah, farmer, Little Pound Little Harry, wheelwright
Nible-tt In.farmer, OxenhaU Court frm
Howley John, wood cutter

COMMEBCUL. Jones Charles, blacksmith, Hill End gn Savidge Frank Robert, farmer,Hilters

Anderson John, gamekeeper to .A. R. Jones Henry, farmer, Pellhall Smith Henry, farmer, Crook's farm

Onslow esq. Shaw common Jones ISamuel, farmer, Whitehouse Tranter John, wheelwright i& farmer,

Chapman Goorge, farmer,Large PoundlJones Wm. Edwin, f.rmr.Winters farm Three Ashes

OXENTON is a parish and village, 2! miles south-east broke College, Oxford, who is also rector of and resides at
from .Ashchurch station on the IMidland railway, and 4! Woolstone. Here is an Independent chapel, erected in
east-by-south from Tewkesbury, in the Northern division 1865. The Earl of Coventry is lord of the manor, and
of the cOlmty, lower division of the hundred, union petty Mrs. Koblett is the chief landowner. The soil is clay;
sessional division and county court district of Tewkesbury, subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and
rural deanery of 'Winchcomb and archdeaconry and diocese beans. 'l'he area is 1,090 acres; rateable value, £798;
of Gloucester. The church of ,St. John the Baptist is an the population in ~891 was: 120.
ancient building, in the Early English style, consisting of
chancel, nave, south porch and a western embattled tower, Parish Clerk, William Washbourne.
with pinnacles, containing 2 bells: there is a stained win- Letters received through Cheltenham. The nearest money
dow, presented by the Earl of Ellenborough: there are
order office is at Bishop's Cleeve & telegraph office at
:120 sittings. The register of baptisms and marriages Gotherington, 2! miles distant. Letters arrive about
dates from the ye31' 1679; burials, 1678. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value £60, including 25 acres of 9.30 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 8.45 a.m. & 5
glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Coventry, and held since p.m.; sundays at 10045 a.m
1870 by the Rev. Gilbert George Coventry B.A. of Pem- Church School (mixed), erected by the Earl of Ellen-
borough in 1862, for 40 children; average attendance,
24; Miss Annie Benbow, mistress

Rdberts Edmund .John & iFredericklRoberts John, farmer, Lower farm Steel Racllael (Mrs.), frmr. Middle frm

James, farmers, iHill farm Shield Thos. farmer, Humphreys farm Wllshbourne WaIter, butcher

OZLEWORTH, auciently called Wozelworth. is a restored in the reign of Edward VI. with the materials
parish and village, 4! miles east from Charfield station of Kingswood Abbey: it stands on an eminence in a park
on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the Midland of 50 acres, and commands extensive views of the sur-
railway, 4 south-east from Dursley and 18 south from rounding country, and there is ·a tradition that an under..
Gloucester, in the Eastern division of the county, upper ground passage extended from this place to the abbey.
division of Berkeley hundred, Tetbury petty sessional Ozleworth Park is the seat of John William Rolt esq. J.P. ;
division and union, Dursley county court district, in the the house is a handsome modern mansion of stone, beau-
rural deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese tifully seated on an eminence, in a small and finely-
of Gloucester. The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient wooded park, commanding extensive views of hill and
building of stone, in the Early Norman style, consisting dale: the mansioI'l. and out-buildings and the church of
{)f chancel and nave, south porch, and an octagonal tower St. Nicholas are lighted WIth .gas, from works belonging
rising between the nave and chancel and containing one to Mr. Rolt. Mrs. Power, who is lady (If the manor,
bell: one of the arches supporting the tower exhibits a and John William Rolt esq. are chief landowners. The
variety of enriched Norman work: the rood stairs re- soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, oolite. The chief crops
main: the church was restored in 1874 at a cost of [850, are wheat, oarley and roots. The area is I,II4 acres;
when a very handsome reredos was erected, together rateable value, £1,090; the population in 1891 was 121.

'With several stained windows: there are 100 sittings. Parish Clerk Frederick Allen
The register dates from the year 1698. The living is a ' ..
Tectory, net yearlyvillue [nH, including 24 acres of
glebe. with residence, in the gift of ~Irs. Power, al).d held Letters thr~ugh Wotton-under-Edge are receIved at 80 30
since 1887 bv the Rev. Rowland John Palmer M.A. of aom. & dIspatched at 5· IS p.m. ~y mes~enger. Wot-
ton-under-Edge, .about 3 miles dIstant, IS the nearest
New Inn Hall, Oxford. Newark Park, the property of
money order & telegraph office
Mrs. Power, and the residence of Alfred Ernest Dickin-
son esg. JoP. formerly belonged to a monastery, and was The children of. this place attend Wot1>on-under-Edge &;
Bagpath schools

Cornwall Rev. Allan Kingscote :Mo..!. Palmer Rev. Rowland In.1'J.!.A.Rectory Cox James, farmer, Lower lodge

(rector of Newington Bagpath), Rolt John Wm. J.P. Ozleworth park Minett WiUiam,farmer, Fernleigh frm

Ashcroft Batters Wm. head gardener to J. W. Witts Thos. dairy farmer, Newark frm

Dickinson Alfd. Ernest .J.P.Newark pk Rolh e·sq

PAINSWICK is a parish and town on the high road 1891: the font dates from 1661: in the north chantry,
from Bath to Cheltenham, on the southern slope of one beneath a groined canopy enriched with elaborate fan-
of the Cotswold ridges of hills, 3' miles north-by-east tracery, is ,an altar tomb of Purbeck marble, erected to
from Stroud stations on the Great Western and Midland Sir William Kingston K.G. constable of the Tower, ob.

railways, 4 west from Haresfield station, 6 south-east from 1540, and Elizabeth, his wife; it is now in a dilapidated

Gloucester, 10 south-west from Cheltenham, and '105 from state, and the brasses formerly {)n the upper slab are

London, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of lost; and on the tomb are now placed alabaster effigies

Bisley, Straud petty sessional division, union and county of John Seaman LL.D. chancellor of the diocese, ob.

court district, and in the rural deanery of Bisley and 1623, and his wife, which have been removed from thair

archdeaconry .and diocese of Gloucester. The civil parish original site in the chancel: during the restoration ot

includes the tithings of Spoonbed, Shepscombe, Stroud the church, brasses, dated 1571, were found under the

End and the Edge. The houses, irregulaTly built, are flooring of the nave: at the back of the pulpit is a double
chiefly (If a· ~ne white freestone found in the neighbour- hagioscope of unusual type, and in the belfry are various
hood, several quarries of which are constantly worked. tablets recording some of the- wonderful peals rung at
The church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone, chiefly in different times by the celebrated" Painswick Youths"-;
the Early Perpendicular style, and oonsists of chancel, the work of restoration was begun in 1878-9, when the
with aisle or chapel, nave of five bays, aisles and an em- galleries and high pews were removed, the floors levelled

battled western tower, with spire, containing a clock with and the interior reseated at a cost of [2,25°: in 1883, ()n

chimes and '12 bells: the chancel is fitted with oak stalls: Sunday, June 10th, the church was struck by lightning
the north chantry chapel is used for daily service: the during' a violent storm, and great damage done; and in

south aisle, erected in the 18th century, was restored in addition to the repairs necessitated by this calamity, the

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. PAINSWICK. 263

chancel was renovated, a panelled roof erected, new choir land is largely in pasture. The chief crops are wheat,
stalls and fittings introduced, and other improvements barley and turnips. The area is 5,79° acres; rateable
effected under the direction of Messrs. WaIler, architects, value, £12,414; the population in 1891 was: civil, 4,134;
of Gloucester, at a cost of about £1,944, and in 1891 ecclesiastical, 1,630.
further restoration was effected, and vestries and an
PARADISE is a hamlet on Spoonbed Hill. Paradise
organ chamber erected at a cost of £2,060: there are House, the residence of William Hawkins Herbert esq.

600 sittings: the churchyard contains 116 yew trees, all is an ancient house, dating from the close of the 15th
regularly planted, and more than 100 ()f them uniformly century, and largely added to about 1740. Roman re·
mains have been found here.
cut. The register dates from the year 1552. The living
is a vicarage, net yearly value £314, including 50 acres Verger and Sacristan, Hubert Scrivens.
of glebe, with residence, in the gift of C. W. D. Perrins

esq. of Ashfield, Malvern, and held since 1893 by the Rev. For BEECHES GREEN, Salmond's Spring, Slad Road;
William Seller Guest-Williams M.A. of Brasenose College, Stroud End and Wick Street, see Stroud.
Oxford. There are Congregational, Baptist and Primi-
tive Methodist chapels and meeting houses for the Ply- THE EDGE, SHEEPSCOMBE and the SLAD will be
moutli Brethren and the Society of Friends. The Con-
gregational chapel here is supposed to be one of the oldest found under separate headings.
in England, having been founded in 1680. A Cemetery,
on Painswick Hill, occupying 4 acres, was laid out and Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,

mortuary chapels erected in the year 1863, at a cost of Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office, New street.
£1,300; it is under the control of a burial board of eight
members. Markets and fairs were formerly held, but all -'Thomas Spring, sub-postmaster. Letters through
have now fallen into disuse. The Capital and Counties ~troud; dispatches, 10.25 a.m. & 5.25 & 7.15 p.m.;

sundays, 10.55 a.m. Deliveries commence at 7.15 B.m.

& 3 p.m.; llundays, 9 a.m. Telegrams forwarded &
delivered 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 to 10 a.m.

Bank Limited have a. sub-branch here, open 0,11 Tuesday Office open for business from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; satur·
days, till 8 p.m
and Saturday, from II a.m. to 2 p.m. .There are several

small endowments amounting in -all to £22 10S. for the PUBLIO <ESTABLISHMENTS.

supply of bread and coals to the poor during ,the winter, Cemetery, Painswick hill, John Wheeler Skinner
and ['12 10S. for apprenticing poor boys and the pur-
chase of blankets: the charity known as the "Advowson Police Office, Richard Dobbs, constable in charge, & I matt

Fund" produces about £60 per annum, for the relief of PUBLIC OFFICERS.

parochial rates; and there is a recent bequest of £500, Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. 6 District,

the interest of which is for 'coal and bread. Here is a Stroud Union, W. Balfour Fergusson M.D., C.M.

Convalescent and Training Home for twelve patients and Hazelbury

eight young girls under training for domestic service: Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages for Painswick

it is also available for seven lady boarders. Spoonbed Sub-District, Stroud Union, Clement Birt, Bell street;

Hill, in this parish, is crDwned by a British earthwork, deputy, Mrs. Keziah Birt

:still in an excellent state Qf preservation: Roman coins Town Crier, William Driver

have been found within it, and during the Civil War it PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services.
was held by the 'troops of Charles I. on several occasions;
the summit of the hill. which is 929 feet above the level St. Mary's Church, Rev. William Seller Guest-Williams
of the sea, commands a fine view of the valley of the
Severn for at least 30 miles, and' on a clear day portions M.A. vicar; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m

of as many as twelve counties may be seen from this spot. Baptist, New street; II a.m. & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m
Painswick House, the seat of FrancisAdams Hyett esq.
RA., J.P. was erected about 1720, and several fine apart- Congregational, Gloucester street, Rev. Samuel Thomas ~

ments were added in 1837 by the father of the present II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m '
owner: some of the parqueted floors are constructed of
Primitive Methodist, Bisley street; 10.30 a.m. &; 15 p.m. ;

tues. 7.30 p.m .

Plymouth Brethren, II a.m. & 6.30 p.m

'Woods grown on the estate and .chemically stained in the , SCHOOL.

growing trees. The Gourt House, the residence of U. A School Board of 5 members was formed November 27,
J. Davis esq. which stands ,about fifty yards south Qf the
1877; Frederick Winterbotham, 5 Rowcroft, Stroud,
c:hurch, is a good example of the domestic architecture
of the Tudor period and one of 'the most interesting of clerk to the board; Albert Bailey, Bellevue road,Stroud,
the old houses in this district: here Charles I.
:Slept during the night of the 9th August, 1643; attendance officer
and on the 10th .a court was held at which
Iloard, built in 1846, & enlarged in 1897, for ISO boys,
a proclamation was drawn up and signed by the
IIO girls &; IIO infants; 'average attendance, 100 boys,
king, and on the same day he led his troops to besiege
100 girls & 80 infants; Timothy Peters, master; Miss
Gloucester: being baffled in this attempt, he l'aised the
.siege and returned to the ,Court House on September Martha Clarke, mistress; Miss Sarah Smith, infants'

mistress ,

CARRIERS TO:-

sth, where he again passed the night. A constable is Cheltenham. Mark So~ thurs. & sat.; &; Maurice Ire~

~hosen annually at the Court leet of the lord of the land, tues. & thurs' ", •'

manor. The principal landowners are Francis Adams Gloucester. Hanks, mono wed. & sat
Hyett esq. Major William iCapel, William Carruthers Stroud. Mark Soul & Maurice Ireland, thrice daily at

Wathen esq. of Brown's Hill, Stroud, George Clarke Brown 9 & 10·40 a.m. &; 12.30, 2.15 & 4·30- p.m. returning

esq. of Kingston Blount, Tetsworth, Oxon. Mrs. Proctor, 10.15 a.m. &; 2 &; 4- p.m.; thurs. at 10.30 a.m. only,

Frederick Henry Groome esq. and Edward Caruthers returning at 2 p.m.; fri. & sat. extra 'bus at 5.45 p.m.

Little esq. The soil ~s TUbbley; subsoil, oolite. The returning at 8 p.m

PRIVATE BESIDENTS., Hyett Francis Adams B.A., J.P. Pains- Rowton Mrs. Yew ITree house.

Eaddeley St. Clair, Castle hale wick house Sayory Mrs. New street

Cooke Benjamin William, Brook house J ones 'Miss E. C. Gwynfa Seddon Miss, Sunnyhank
Selwyn Rev. Sydney George M.A.
Cox Miss, Sheephouse Kay Mrs. ,stamager's lane

Davis Uriah James, The Court house Marsland Ellis, Rose cottage Castle Godwyn

Fawcett Miss, Southfield ~Iason M'isses, Beacon house, New'st Skinner Mrs. J. ,New gtreet

Fergusson William Balfour M.D.,C.M. Meeze Arthur G. Halighiw Skinner J aIm Wheeler, Bisley street

Hazelbury Mtillard Mrs. Flora villa. Skinner Mrs. Thomas, Gloucester st

OardneT Mrs. New stree1l Monk Frederick S. The Croft Thomas Rev. SmL (O:mg.), The Manse

Guest-Williams Rev. William Seller Morris Miss, Vicarage lane Trotman Edwin, Park house

M.A. Vicarage Pascall George William, Prospect villa Voice. James Henry, Beaconsfield house

Herbert William 'HawkinS', Paradise Phippin Aloort, Collin's ho. Hollcombe WaIsh Rev. Francis Clark~ M.A.Oxon.

ho.; & Devonshire club,London S W Phipps Maurice, Church house Lullingworth

Herbert William de Bray RA., LL.B Proctor Mrs. Olivers Wemyss The Misses, Washwell house

J"ones Albert, Hambutt's house Reed Edward, The Rockery Wiseman-Percival William, South view

COMMERCIAL. . Bridges Sidney, baker, Church street
Burdock Waiter Henry, builder, plumber, Illazier, gas·
Ahem Cornelius, Star inn
Ash Hugh, shoe maker, Gloucester street fitter & general house decorator, New st. See advert
"Berry Sidney, farmer, Holcombe Capital & Counties Bank Limited (sub-branch from
Birt Clement, registrar of births, deaths &; marriages,
Strond); open tues. & sat. from II to 2; draw on
Painswick sub-district, Stroud union, Bell street head office, 39 Threadneedle street, London E C .
Eirt Keziah (Mrs.), deputy registrar of births, deaths & Cemetery (John Wheeler Skinner, clerk), Painswick hill
Clark William, hair dresser & tov• warehouse, Bell st
marriages for Painswick sub-district

264 PAINSWICK. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Coffee Tavern (Raymond Fern, manager), New street Pendree John, cooper, Gloucester street

Cole W. H. & Co. pin manufacturers Phipps Joseph Philemon, farmer, Dell farm

Convalescent & Training Home (Miss Margaret Daveney, Phipps William, farmer, Holcombe

lady superintendent) Poole Hartley Carter, farmer

Dixon Jonathan, chimney sweeper, New street Radford James, linen draper, New street

Doidge &; Ho-rlick, drapers, lJisley street Saltmarsh Gerald William, hair dresser, New street

Drivt>r William, town crier Savage (Misses), farmers, Damsells

Everatt Joseph, tailor, New street Savory &; Sons, pin makers, Brook House mills

Fergusson William Balfour M.D., C.M. physician & Savory Emma (Mrs.), Cross Hands P.H

medical officer & public vaccinator to No. 6 district, Skinner John Wheeler, farmer & dairyman & clerk to

Stroud union, Hazelbury the burial board, Bisley street

Finch Charles, builder, undertaker & decorator, Pains- Smith Rowland, butcher

wick joinery &; building works, New street Spring Thos. &; Co. grocers &; bakers, Post office, New st

Gardner Charles Fredk. miller (water), Damsell's mill Spring Herbert William, auctioneer, Haleville

Gwinnett Henry, carpenter, St. Mary street Steele John, beer retailer, Vicarage lane

Hanks John, carrier, Butt green Stroud Co-operative Society Lim. grocers, Gloucester st

Hart Jane (Miss), stationer, New street Swaiu William, carpenter, The Park

Hill William R. beer retailer Tidmarsh James, butcher, New street

Hogg Mary &; Kate (Misses), shopkeepers, The Cross WalkIett Henry, baker, E!t. Mary's street

Hogg William Stephen, butcher, Bell street Warner Ellen (Mrs.), dress maker

Hooper William Henry, Golden Heart P.H Warner John Edwin, grocer &; wine merchant, New st

Hopkins Aaron, saddler &; china dealer, New street Wathen Samuel, farmer, Dutchcombe farm

Ireland Maurice, haulier &; carrier, Butt green Watkins &; Okey, pin manufacturers, King's mill

Jones Albert, baker &; grocer, Cheltenham road Watkins Ellen (Mrs.), milliner &; dress ma. Gloucester st

Jones Caroline (Mrs.), Fleece inn, Bisley street We'bb Charles, butcher, The Cross

Jones Edward, mason, Gloucester street West Charlotte (Mrs.), ironmonger, New street

Jones Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, St. Mary's street Westcott John Henry, Falcon hotel

Jones Richard, Royal Oak. P.H White Frederick, boot maker, New street

Jones William, plumber, Vicarage lane Wigmore Frank, farm bailiff to F. A. Hyett esq

King Thomas, haulier Wig-more John Pimbury, farmer &; dairy, High grove &1;

Large Charles, mason, Cheltenham road Bisley street

Mills Caleb, baker, Vicarage lane Willis Elizabeth (Miss), Adam & Eve inn, Cheltenham rd

Mills Ebenezer William, cabinet maker, Bisley street Worgan George, Bell inn

.Mills William, baker, Gloucester street Workman Raymond James, coach builder, wheelwright

Mitchell Samuel, chimney sweeper, Vicarage lane &;c. New street

Musty Joseph, quarry owner, Butt green Workman Samuel, blacksmith, Butt green

Organ Thomas R. hardware dealer, St. Mary's street Young Alice (Miss) &; Finch Amelia (Mrs.), ladies!

Painswick Gas Light &; -Coke Co. Lim. (Hy. Phipps, sec) school, Byfield house

P ARKE ND is a hamlet in the civil parish of St. SCHOOLS.
Paul, in the township of West Dean, Forest of Dean, and
was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1842; it has Board, Pillowell, Whitecroft, under the Forest of Deall
United District school board (boys, girls &; infants).
a station on the Severn and Wye railway, and is 4 miles built, with master's residence, in 1878, for 393 chil-

south-east from Coleford, 14 south-east from Ross and dren; average attendance, 113 boys, 106 girls & lIe.
16 north-east from Chepstow, in the Forest of Dean
division of the county, hundred of St. Briavels, petty infants; Edwin Sims, master; Miss Fanny Deacon,
sessional division of O:>leford, Monmouth union and mistress; Miss Murray, infants' mistress
county court district, rural deanery of South Forest
and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church Board (mixed), Park End, for ISO children; averagll'
of St. Paul, consecrated in 1822, is an octagonal building attendance, 125; Edward T. Burton, master
pf stone, in mixed styles, with a pinnacled western tower
conbining a clock and one bell; it is now (1897) under- FUTTERILL is 2 miles south-east from Coleford
going repairs: there are 450 sittings. The register of station on the Severn and Wye and Great Western rail-
baptisms and burials dates from the year 1822; marri- ways. Letters through Coleford, which is the neares.t
ages, 1836. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value money order and telegraph office.

£150, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Glou- WHIT'ECROFT, :; miles south-east from Coleford, is
cester, and held since 1896 by the Rev. John Bond RA., situated iu the vale betwixt rising ground covered with
LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. There is a Baptist fine plantations of timber, and has a station on the
chapel. A new Church Cemetery, I acre in extent, was Severn, Wye and Severn Bridge railway; the inhabitants,
'Consecrated in May, 1862. Whitemead Park is the seat whose dwellings are scattered with singular irregularity.
of Philip Baylis esq. and has an area of 42 acres. The are mainly employed in the coal, chemical and quarry
principal landowrre~ are the Crown and Henry Crawshay trades. Here is a Wesleyan chapel.
'find Sons. The soil is for the most part of a stiff clayey
J1ature, and the land is mostly used for the growth vf Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office.-
timber. The area is 4,676 acres; the population in 1891
Miss Anne Sims, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
'Was 2,1'94. from Lydney at 8.15 &; 11.36 a.m.; dispatched at 6.15
Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office.- &, 8.15 p.m. The telegraph office is at the railway
station
Philip Jones, sub-postmaster. Letters through Lydney
arrive at 7.45 a.m. & 12 p.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. RAILWAY STATIONS.
The telegraph office is at the Railway station
Letters for Speech House Road through Coleford Parkend, Augustus Moore, station master
police Station, GHorge Haggetll, constable in charge Whitecroft, George John Mansfield, station master

PARKEXD. J ones Solomon, colliery manager WHITECROFT.

Baylis Philip J.P. (deputy surveyor of Liddington Rachae,1 (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cooke Charles
the Forest of Dean), Whitemead pk
Page J ames, blacksmith PeteTs George Frederick, Park Hill ho
Elanch Mrs. Oakland house Berry William, beer ;retailer
Bond Rev. John RA., LL.D. Vicarage Park End Deep Navig-ation Collieries Davies William, baker, confectioner &;
Deakin Thomas Hedges J.P
Halpin WaIter Charles Limited (Thomas Hedges Deakin, yeast mer.; -&; Swan inn, Pillowell
Sant Stewart Arthur, The Villa managin~ dire-ctor) Dean Fore-st Navigation -Coal &; Fuel
Payne Edwin R. &; Son, stone mer-
Co. (William RichardS', manager)
chants & saw mills
COMMERCIAL. Hampton Thomas, beer retailer
Powe~l James, grocer & baker

Rees Alfred, quarry proprie,t.or
David & Sant 'Limited, stone quarry Ward Enos, New inn
Kear Arthur, Miners' Arms inn

owners & saw mills Watkins William, beer retailer Kear Henry, butcher

Fox ~fary (Mrs.), British Lion P.ll Mantle Henry Wm. groce'l" & drape-t"

Gunter George, Fountain inn FUTTERILL. Morse Thomas & Hubert Hy. millers
Halpin Walter Charles L.R.C.P. &; S. (water &; steam)

Edin. surgeon Cole James, fire brick, tile & pottery Sims Anne & Elizabeth (Misses), gro-

Rughes James, timber merchant ware. maker cers &; drapers, Post office

Jeffl'ey Stafford, boot &; shoe maker Nelmes Richard, George inn Vimpany Edmund, shopkpr. Pillowell

Jones Philip, grocer &; draper, Post off Porter Charles, beer retailer Wintour J ames, farmer

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. PILNING. 265

l'A UNTLEY, a picturesquely beautiful parish, con- The rectorial tithes are in chancery, the lay rector being
sisting principally of scattered dwellings, and on the river a minor. Mr. Charles Griffin left in 1878 the sum of
Leadon, which here separates the county from Worcester- £100 for heating the church, and the further sum of
shire, 2 miles north-east from Newent station on the £300, upon trust, the interest to be divided between six
Gloucester, Ledbury and Worcester branch of the Great poor persons of Pauntley, Pool Hill and Bran Green,
Western railway, 10 north-west from Gloucester and 6 to be paid them on St. Thomas' day. There are springs
south-east from Ledbury, in the Forest of Dean division of water of a saline character on the banks of the Leadon,
of the county, Botloe hundred, Newent petty sessional which flows through the northern boundary of the county
division, union and county court district, rural deanery between precipitobs banks. The White House is the
of North Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou- residence of Major William PoIson Thackwell J.P. The
cester. The church of St. John the Evangelist is a manorial rights are attached to the Crown. Frank
1!mall but fine building of stone, in the l'iorman style, Ricardo esq. of Bromsberrow Place, is the chief land-
supposed to have been built soon after the Conquest by owner. The soil is in general a sandy loam, but in some
WaIter de Pauntley, and consists of chancel with chapel parts clay; subsoil, rock. The surface is beautifully
dedicated to St. George, nave, south aisle, north porch diversified and undulating. The crops are wheat, turnip!il
and an embattled western tower -containing 3 bells: the and orchard produce. The area is 1,461 acres; rateable
east window is a memorial to John Cowmeadow esq.: value, £1,601; the population in 1891 was 155 civil, 183
the chancel arch is a good example of Norman work, ecclesiastical.

and the south doorway is an enriched specimen of the By Local Government Board Order, 14,638, March 25,
same period: a new south door was fixed in 1885: on the 1883, a detached part of Pauntley was transferred to
wall of the south aisle is a mural brass to Elizabeth Oxenhall for civil purposes.
(Whittington), wife of Sir Giles Pole kt. ob. 18 Sept.
1546, and a handsome marble monument to Anne Somer- POOL HILL is a hamlet, about I! miles west of the
set, ob. 1764, daughter of the Hon. Charles Somerset,
church, partly in Newent and Pauntley parishes: there
and grand-daughter of Lord John Somerset, 2nd son is a '\Vesleyan chapel.

of the 1St Marquess of Worcester; to her sister Anna Wall Letter Box, Compton Green, cleared at 7. 10 p.m.
Carolina Brickendine, d. 1770, and to Henry Blachford week days only
Scudamore (late of Newent) and nephew to the above,
d. 1795: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from Letters -through Gloucester, vi3. Newent, arrive at 7.30
the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, net yearly a.m. Newent is the nearest money order &; telegraph
value £69, with 14~ acres of glebe, in the gift of the office, 2 miles distant
Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1889 by the Rev.
John Horn Lorimer M.A. of St. John's College, Cam- National School (mixed), Pool hill, built in 1869, for 60
bridge, who is also vicar of and resides at Oxenhall. children; average attendance, 54; Mrs. Clara Leigh-
ton, mistress

ThaC'kwell Major William ;PoIson J.P. Higgins John, farmer, Welch house Perkins Wm. Henry, frmr. Ryle house

The White house Parry IFrank,millr.(water),Payford mill Robinson Lee Barnett, farmer, Pant ha

COMMERCIAL. Price Andrew, gamekeeper to F. Selwyn William, shopkeeper

Ilutler Henry, farmeT, Pauntley court Ricardo eS'q

PEBWORTH, a village and parish, on the Worcester- about £20 yearly. The principal landowners are Thomas
shire border, 2 miles north from Honeybourne station Stevens Shekell esq. who is lord of the manor, and
on the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Wes- George Millward esq. of Lechlade Manor. The soil is
partly rich loam and strong clay; subsoil, stiff clay. The
tern railway, 5! north-west from Chipping Campden, chief crops are wheat, beans and !barley. The area of
the parish is 2,956 acres; rateable value, £4,200; the
28 north-east from Gloucester, 7l east from Evesham population in 1891 was 641.

and '94 from London, in the Eastern division of the ULLINGTON, I mile north-west, and BROAD MAR-
county, upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, STON, half a mile south-east, are hamlets of Pebworth.
Campden petty sessional division, county court district
and union of Evesham, rural deanery of Campden, arch- Parish Clerk, Eli Harrison.
deaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. The

church of St. Peter, supposed to have been erected about

the 13th century, is a building of stone, in mixed styles, Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.-
consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle,
William Paget, sub-postmaster. Letters are received
north porch and an embattled western tower containing
S bells: there is a very curious mural painting serving through Stratford-on-Avon; arrive at 7.15 a.m. &; dis-
as a memorial to the Ma~tin family and dated 1629: patched at 5.15 p.m. week days only. Mickleton is

the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant

the church was re-pewed in 1860 and has 250 sittings: Wall Letter Box, Broad Marston, cleared at 5.5 p.w..
in the churchyard facing the vestry door lies the stone week days only
effigy of a priest of the 14th century in eucharistic
vestments: here also are portions of two ancient crosses. Parochial School (mixed), the property of T. S. Sheken
esq. built, with residence for master, in 1874 &; en-
The register dates from the year 1595. The living is larged in 1894, for 130 children; average attendance,
82 boys &; girls &; 37 infants; Thomas R. J. Ames,
a vicarage, gross yearly value £100, with l'esidence, in master; Mrs. Ames, infants' mistress
the gift of Thomas Stevens Shekell esq. and held since
1878 by the Rev. George William Phillips Assoc~ K.C.L. Carriers to Stratford-on-Avon.-James Kilby, fri.; H.
There is 8 Wesleyan chapel here, and a Primitive Metho- Hemmings, fri.; to Evesham Joseph Harrison, tues

dist chapel at ,Broad Marston. The charities amount to

Phillips Rev. George William Assoc. Butler Henry, farm bailiff to T. S. KilbyJane(Mrs.),shpkpr.Broad Marstn

K.C.L. (vicar), Peobworth house Shekell esq. Broad Marston Pearson Eliza(Mrs.),Masons' Arms P.B

Shekell E. BonnerM.A., J.P. Manor ho Chapman John, farmer, Broad M1arston Rimell John James, farmer

ShekeU Thomas Stevens D.L., J.P. Churchley James, farmer, Ullington Rimell William, farmer

Manor house Dowdeswell Edward, saddler Smith Charles, farmer

Ernes James, wheelwright Smith Richard, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Gould John, farmer Taylor Oscar, 'blacksmith

Allard John, shopkeeper Hemmings Heneage, carrier Tom.linson Dinah (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Ilanning Thomas, farmer Kilby James, carrier &, bee·r retailer, Tomlinson William, baker

Ilromley William, Ibricklayer Broad Marston Valender Thomas, baker

PILNING is a village and ecclesiastical parish, formed taining 2 bells: there are sittings for 250 persons. The
Sept. 2, 1881, from the parishes of Almondbury and Hen-
bury, comprising an outlying portion of the former parish, register dates from the year 1855. The living is a vicar-
together with the tithing of Redwick, and is on the
Welsh road from Bristol to the New< Passage, with a age, gross yearly value £302, including I! acres of glebe,
station 9~ miles north-by-west from Bristol, on the
Bri8'tol and South Wales section of the Great with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bristol, and
Western railway, and 122l from London, in the he-Id since 1886 by the Rev. John :Frederick Evans Hol-

Southern division of the county, lower division of Hen- loway :M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a
bury hundred, Thornbury petty sessional division, union mission hall belonging to the parish, and Wesleyan and
and county court district, rural deanery of Stapleton and Free Methodist chapels. In this parish is the eastern
archdeaconry and diocese of Bristol. The river Chessel
end of the tunnel under the Severn, constructed by the
Pill flows into the Severn at this point. The church of Great Western Railway Company, to connect their main
St. Peter, built in 1855, is an edifice of HanhaIIlJ stone, lines with their branches in South Wales, and to shorten
the route from London, and opened Dec. I, 1886; for
with dressings of freestone, in the Gothic style, consisting
this undertaking powers were secured in 1872, when the
of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret con- preliminary borings were commenced, and the operations

were begun in 1879. The Severn is at this point 2! miles

broad, and an additional 2 mileS' of tunnel bring the lines

266 PILNING. GLOUCESTERSHIRE, [KELLY'S

to the levels: the extreme interior width is 26 feet, and I Parish Clerk &; Sexton, Thomas Dart Allen,

height 24t feet, or 20 feet from the rails to the roof: it
is estimated that 640,000 cubic yards of earth have been Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office._
removed, and that 70,000,000 of bricks line the tunnel; Thomas Dart AlIen, sub-postmaster. Letters received
the main portion of the cutting runs through the Pennant from Bristol 7 a.m. &; 4. 10 p.m.; dispatched, 11.15

sandstone or grit: the work, with one important exception, a.m. &; 8.20 p.m. Wall Boxes cleared at New Passage.
when it was completely flooded for twelve months, pro- 7. 20 p.m.; NOO'thwick, 6·50 p.m.; Redwick, 7·35 p.m.;

ceeded without serious !hindrances. The work was carried near Station, cleared 8,45 p.m. Tockington iit the

out under the direction of Sir John Hawkshaw kt. as nearest telegraph office, 4 miles distant

er.gineer-in-chief. A substantial .sea wall ;protects the National School (mixed), built in 1877, at a cost of £750 ,

low land from inunda1rion. Sir John Henry Greville for 160 children; average attendance, 59 boys, 43 girl,
Smyth bart. of Ashton Court, Bristol, who is lord of the &; 38 infants; Edmund Thomas Corke, master; Mrs..

manor, Arthur Andrew Daubeny esq. and Robert C. Cann- Ellen Corke, mistress
Lippincott esq. are chief landowners. The soil is rich Police Station, Tom Howes, 1st class constable, &; I con-

loam; 'subsoil, -stiff blue clay. The chief crops are beans, stable
potatoes and wheat, and some land in pasturage; acreage Railway Station, Pilning, Frank Chas. Cane, station mast

and rateable value is included in that of Northwick; the Carriers to Bristol.-Edward Adams, tues. thurs. &; sat.

population in 1891 was 829. &; Mrs. Mary Britton, tues. &; fri. 7 a.m

Benne,tt lVilliam Conins Edwin, baker & farmer &; pro- Norris Charles, farmer, Dean house

Cullimore ,Charles prietor of the Olarence pavilion Norris In. CodringtDn, grocer &draper

Holloway Rev. John iFred~rick Evans Davis Mary (Mlrs.), farmer Oakhill James, King's Al'ms P.R

M.A. Vicarage Gibbs iHugh, farmer Pearce William, farmer, Rookery farm

Norm Mrs. Northwiak house Gover Arthur, carpenter Poole James, farmer

Perry Richard, lSea. wall Holloway John George Rowland, far- Prosser Mary (Mrs.),.farmer

Worrall George mer, Fairfield Pullin Alfred Tlhomas, be~r retailer

COlDlE:8CIAL. Hopkins Eliz& (Mrs.), New Pasage hotl Shepherd Goorge, farmer t& assistant

.Anen Thomas Dart, sextDn & sub- Hunt Charles Luton, farmer, St. overseer, SDuthworthy farm

postmaster Peter's farm Start Esther (Mrs.), farmer

Attewell Henry, farmer Lewis William, butcher Thomas In. Hewitt,frmr.Gilslake farm

Bennett James, farmer, White house Lippiatt Christopher, painter Watkins Clara (Mrs.), farmer, North-

Bennett James, hay dealer Longdon Henry, shoe maker wick farm

Clarence Pavilion & Tea. Gardens (E. Lovell John, farme[' Wahkins Frederick, farmer, Poplar ho

Coilins, proprietor); schools, cy- Lovell Marshall, Cross Hands P. H Webbe,r George, farmer, Laurel farm

dists &; picnic parties catered for, Neale Charles, farmer Williams Albert, White Horse P.H

New Passage Neale James, farmer ·Williams Thomas, blacksmith

PINNOCK and HYDE and F ARMCOT were to the vicarage of Didbrook, joint net yearly value £173,
formed into a parish, under the "Divided Parishes Act,"
including 37 acres of gleb.e, with residence, in the gift of
in 1883; Pinnock and Hyde were formerly 'hamlets of Did-
brook, and Farmcot a hamlet of Guiting Power; ecclr- the Earl of Wemyss and March, and 'held since 1871 by.
siastically Pinnock and Hyde are in Didbrook parish, and
Farmeot in Guiting Power, in th~-NlJftnern division of the Rev. William Darke Stanton M.A. of Exeter College,
the county, Winchcomb petty sessional division, unioll
and county court district, rural deanery of Campden, Oxford, who is also vicar of and resides at Todding1on.
archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester.
The trustees of Lord Sudeley P.C., F.R.S. and Mrs. Dent,
Pinnock is 3' east, Hyde 4! east, and Farmcot 3
miles east of Winchcomb, and about 6 miles north-west of Sudeley Castle, are the landowners. The soil is' stiff

from Notgrove station on the Banbury and Cheltenham clay and gravelly loam; subsoil, clay and gravel. The
section of the Great Western railway, and is a chapelry
chief crops are barley, beans and wheat. The area. is
attached to the living of Guiting Power. St. Micha.el's
2,263 acres; rateable value, £1,549; the population iD

1891 was 106.

-. ..
Letters through ·Wmchcomb R.S.O. whIch IS the nearest

money order &; telegraph office

chapel of ease is a small building of stone with 40 ,sittings. The children of Pinnock &; Hyde attend Guiting Temple

The living of Pinnock is a rectory, annexed with Hailes school, & those Df Farmcot, the Didbrook school
I IJames Le-igh, farmer, Farmcot
Mann Isaac, farmer, Farmcot Perry George, farmer,Farmcote Wood,

Lane Charles, farmer, Pinnock Mann William, farmer, Farmcot Farmcob J

PITCHCOMBE is a parish and village, on the high £1 I5S'. yearly, derived from a rent-charge and land, and
road. from Stroud to Gloucester, ~ miles north from
are applied to a Christmas Day bread gift and the relief
Stroud station on the Swindon and Gloucester section of
the Great Western railway, IQ south-west from Chelten- of the poor. An ancient castle is supposed to have stood

ham, and 7 south from Gloucester, in the Mid division of on the north-east side of the church, in the vicinity of
the county, Middle division of the hundred of Dudsrone
Castle farm. "Ragged Castle" is an old building, pro-
and King's Barton, Stroud petty sessional division, union
and county court district, and in the rural deanery, arch- bably constrncted out of the rufns of the original fortress.

deaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church (name Pitchrombe House is the residence of John CarutheI'll
unknown), rebuilt in 1819 and restored and enlarged in
Little esq.•LP. lord of the manor and chief landowner.
1870, is a building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting
of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western The soil is loamy; ,subsoil, clay and stony. The chief

tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell: there are foul' crops are 'wheat, turnips and pasture. The area is 485
memorial windows: of the ancient pulpit only a fragment
remains, and i.s now preserved in the chancel wall: nu~ acres; rateable value, £r,025; the population in 1891 was
merous' monumental tablets are grouped at the west end
of the church: there are sittings for 230 persons. The 250, . •

register dates from the year 1709, but transcripts of By Local Government Board Order 15,261, Pitchcombe

earlier registers, commencing with 1569, exist in the dio- ~fill, Manor Farm and Cottages, and other detached parts

cesaa registry at Gloucester. The living is a. rectory, of Standish parish were transferred to Pitchcombe, and

annexed to that of HU!escombe, joint gross yearly value by Order 15,264, Wragg- Castle Lane, Catbrain and another
£174, including 15 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held
since 1:879 hy the Rev. John Melland Hall M.A. of Wor· detached part of Brookthorpe was added to the parish.

cester College, Oxford, who resides at Harescombe. Here I'arish Clerk, Alfred Gyde.
is a Congregational cha,pel. The charities amount to
Post Office. James Mansell, sub-postmaster. Letters ar·

rive from Stroud at 7.20 a.m.; sundays, 7.20 a.m.;

dispatched at 5.15 p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m. Postal

orders are issued here, but not paid. Stroud is the

nearest money order &; telegraph office .

Kational School (mixed), built in 18°3, for 50 children;

average attendance, 33; Mrs. Julia Mansell, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMME:8CIAL. Guy Francis, blacksmith

Rawkes George Edwin, The Firs Andrew .Jsph. Frdk.farmr.Mlanor farm :Mills Maria (~s.), baker

Little CD!. John Caruthers, The La- Avery Frank, cattle dealer Pearee Samuel, farmer, Starr farm

b u r n u m s A y e r s In. Goo. & Sons, timber mers. Poole Alfred, farmer, Wrag Castle frm

Little Edward Palling, Pitchcombe ho &. general wood turnerS', Smalls mill Steele Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeepea-.

Little In.Caruthers J.P.Pitehcombe ho Bullock Samuel, dairyman Wade James Gibson, miller (water)

Parker Franke :Freeman, Pitchcombe Gyde Charles, builder &; carpenter, Walker Cha~. farmer, Lo\rer's hall

view Little mills Young Thomas Frederick, Eagle P.R

POOLE KEYNES is a. parish and small village, 2 county, Cricklade hundred, petty sessional division af

miles south-east from Kemble junction on the Swindon Cirencester, Cirencester union and county court district,
and Gloucester ~ection of the Great Western railway Ilnd rural deanery and aryhdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese
4! south from Cirencester, in the Eastern division of the of Gloucester. This parish was formerly in Wiltshire•

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DIRECTORY. ] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. PRESfBURY. 267

Ibut from 1st A.pril, 1897, was annexed to the county of John's College, Oxford. l'ilichael Biddulph esq. M.P. of
Gloucester by an Order of the Local Go.ernment Board, Kemble :Manor House, is lord of the manor and principal

dated 30th April, 1896, which order waS' confirmed by the landowner. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil,. stone
Local Government Board's Provisional Order's Confirma- and gravel. The land is chiefly in pasture. The ~ea is

tion (:Ko. 13) A.ct, 1896. The church of St. Michael, re· 1.128 acres: rateable value, £1,910; the population in

built on the site of an old church, 1770, is a Gothic stone 18g1 was 129. • _

building, and has chancel, nave and square embattled OAK WELL is half a mile south-west.

western tower containing one bell, and was repaired in l'arish Clerk, George Clark.

1845: some of the monuments built into the walls datp. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.10 p.m. in summer &; 4.30

from the 16th century: the east window and one on each p.m. winter. Letters through Cirencester, which is the

side of the ~hancel are stained: there are sittings for 70 l1ear~st money order office, arrive about 9 a.m. Kemble

persons. The register dates from the year 1632. The is the nearest telegraph office

living is a rectory, net yearly value £80 (arising princi- Xational School (mixed), built in 1847, for 35 children;

pally from 218 acres of glebe), with residence, in the gift with house for mistress; a.erage attendance, 20; Mrs.

of .the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and held Agnes Hunt, mistress

since 1862 by the Rev. Benjamin Mallam M.A. of St. Carrier.-Meddlicott, to Cirencester, mono & fri

Mallam Rev. Benjamin M.A. Re,ctory Hiscock Henry, assistant o.erseer Large William, farmer, Lower farm

COMMERCIAL. Hiscock \Yilliam, farme,r Medlicott George, shopkeepe.r &; carrier'

Baker John, farmer Jennings,Prank,farm bailiff to the redr Phipp Henry, farmer

FOULTON is' a parish, on the road from Cirencester this parish is noted for its stone and slate quarries. The

to Fairlord, 5 miles east from Cirencester stations on the Priory was founded in the 21st year of Edward IlL's

Great Western and Midland and South West Junction reign by Sir 'I'homas Sanctor Maurs in connection with th~

railways and 5 north from Cricklade, in the Eastern divi- Gilbertine o.roer of Monks; a residence (erected in 1897)

sion of the county, hundred of Crowthorne, petty sessional contiguous to the site of the old Priory buildings is of the

division of Fairford, union and county court distriet 1,ate 'rudor and Early Renaissance styles, built of local

of Cirencester, rural deanery of Fairford, -arch- stone, and standing on an eminence commanding a wide

deaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. outlook; this is the seat of James Joicey esq. the prin.

The parish was formerly in Wiltshire, but was cipal landowner. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, lime-

annexed to the county of Gloucester by the Acts stone. 'rhe chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots.

2 and 3 William IV, cap. 64, and 7 and 8 Vict. cap. The area is 1,535 acres; rateable .alue, £1,844; the papu-

61. The old church of St. Michael stood about half a lation in 1891 was 406.

mile from the village, but in consequence of its dilapidated Parish Clerk, Jonathan lYhet>ler.

conditio~ it wa~ pulled down i~ 1873-4, and a ne~ church Post, M. O. &; T. 0., rr. 1\1. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,
erected III the v~llage (partly WIth the old. Jllaterl~ls~, at a Parcel Post &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.-Orlando
cost of. £2,239, the pre~ent structure .1S. a buildmg of
Sambleson, sub-postmas-ter. Letters arrive from F'air-

stone, III the Early EnglIsh style, conslstmg of ch8;D?el, ford S.O. at 7.45 a.m.; diSlpatched at Q p.m.; sun-
nave, south porch, vestry, and lIPwestern turret contammg _da.ys,9.30 a ill
..
3 bells: there are sittings for 300 persons. The register " .
of marriages dates from the year 170 3; baptisms, 1695; 1'\atlOnal School (mIXed), built ~n 1873, for 101 ehildre~;
burials, 1696. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value aVE'rage~attendance,8o; there IS a house fo~ the master;
£68, including residence, in the
2! acres of glebe, with James French, master; 1\Irs E. French, mIstress

gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1894 by Carriers. Joseph Poole, to Cirencester, mono wed. &; fri.;

the Rev. 'Yilliam John Mayne. The neighbourhood of &; Robe·rt Luckett, mono & fri

Adams Mrg Herbert Charles, p:asterer Sambleson Orlando &; Son, tailors &;

Joicey James, Poulton priory Hi~l .A.l'bert Edmund, farmer drapers, Post office

Joicey John Gearge, Poulton priory Holder Thomas, plasterer Sambleson Edward, tailor

Lane William Jenner, The Firs Jobbins' George, mason Strafford Charles, carpenter, joiner,

Mayne Rev. ·Wm. John, Yicarage Luckett Cornelius, farmer & haulier, & contractor &c.; estimates £ur-

Titley John Edward carter .& heavy haulage contractor nished &c

Young Edmund, Manor house Luckett Rt. carrier, & traps on hire Strafford John H. saddler & harness

COMMERCIAL. ~Iiller Charles, assistant overseer maker & deal~r in all kinds of stable

Adams Albert Herbert, baker & clerk to the parish council requisites, coffee rooms for picnic

Carpenter Richard & Son, blacksmiths Niblett Mary Ann (Mrs.), Falcon inn parties, cyclists &c. &c

Edwards Alfred, shopkeeper Palmer William, shopkeeper Tilling Ernest Jsph. Wm.bakr.& grar

Eacott James, mason Oram Ann (Mrs.), beer retaL-er Ti:Iing Joseph, farmer & quarry own'!'

Harris Alfd. Fredk. grocer &; baker Poole Joseph, carrier & shopkeeper

PRESCOTT, formerly extra-parochial, is now a in pasture. The area is 603 acres; rateable value, £666;

parish, 2! miles west from Winchcomb .and 5 north-east the population in 1891 was 60.
On March 25, 1883, by Local Government Board Qrder,
from Cheltenham, in the Northern division of the county,
upper division {)f Tewkesbury hundred, Winchcomb petty 14,695, a detached part of Winchcombe, known as Rushey

sessional division, union and county court district. The Cockbury farm, was amalgamated with this parish.
Gretton is the nearest Letter ~ox, closed at 5.15 p.m.;
parishioners attend the churches of Gretton and Stanley
POil,tlarge. Prescot House, the residence of Mrs. Talbot, no collection on sundays. Letters received from

is pleasantly situated in about 30 acres of mead·ow land, Winchcomb R.S.O. arrive at g a.m. Winchco;mb, 2l
and commands a good view of the vale of Evesham and
surrounding country. Mrs. Noblet, {)f Southam Dela- miles distant, is the nearest moMy order &; telegraph
office
bere, Cheltenham, is lady of the manor and principal
landowner. The soil is clay and st-one brash; subsoil, This place is included in the Winchcomb united school
chy. The chief crops are wheat, beans and some land board district; the children attend the board school
at Gretton

Talbot Mrs. Prescott house Holder Jo-hn, farmer, Rushey Cock- Lawrence Rosetta (Mrs.), farmer

COMMERCIAL. bury farm ~ewman Alexander, farmer, Pardon hI
Kilby William & Thomas, farmers
Groves William, farmer ~.

PRESTBURY is a parish and vil1age~ formerly a mar- stored in 186{. at a cost of Ov~l," .£3>{JCo, under the direq-

ket town in the time of Henry m. and is on the road tion of the late G. E. Stree~ esq. R.A. and afIorqs 350
from Cheltenham to Winchcomb, 2 miles north-east from sittings. The register dates from the year 1633. The

Cheltenham and 8 south-by-east from Tewkesbury and living is a vicarage, net yearly value £205, including 21

5 from Winchcomb, in the Northern division of the acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of .the Rev.

county, lower division of the hundred of Deerhurst, Chel- John Baghot De la Bere M.A. vicar here J:824-6o, and

Itenham petty sessional division, union and county comt now vicar of Buxted, Sussex, and held since 18g1 by the

district, rural deanery of Cheltenham and archdeaconry Rev. Henry Urling Smith M.A. of Brasenose College, Ox-
and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Mary is ford. The .Baghot family have (with two exceptions)

an ancient building of ~t.one, principally in the EMly been re!!ularly presented to this living since the year
Engli~h and! Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, 1587. The 'Catholic chapel of Our Lady of Good Coun-

clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch, and an embatUed sel was erected ;in 1895. Here is' a Congreg-ational chapel,

western tower, containing·a dock and 8 bells: all the I erected in r866, with 250 sittings, and a Working Men's

windows are stained, and there are mural tablets in the Club and Institute, well supplied with newspapers and

church to lVilliam Baghot esq. d. 1725, and Ann (De la periodicals. There is a Cottage almshouse, desoribed in

Bere), his wife, d. 1739; and to Christopher Capel, d. an inscription upon it as "The gift of Anne Goodrich for

1740, and Sarah, his wife, d. 1733: the church was re- . the Religiuus Poor A.D. 1720," and available for three

268 PRESTBURY. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

occupants, each receiving about Ss. weekly. The oldest stiff clay; subsoil, chiefly gravel and clay. The chief

charity, called "!I'he Poor's Grounds," consists of 6 cot- crops are wheat and roots. The area is 3,022 acreS"

tages and 6 . acres of land, producing at present £38 rateable value,£n,656; the population in 1891 was 1,430'.

annultliy: there is also ,a sum of £1,800, left in 1881, by NOVERTON is a hamlet I mile east. Part of PITT-
George Perron esq. and £450, left in the same year, by VILLE is in Cheltenham.
John Surman-Surman esg.; these two sums are invested
in Consols; there is also a charity call~ "The Durham Parish Clerk and Sexton, Thomas Hook.
Legacy" of £2 Ss. yearly value; under a scheme of the
Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,

Charity Commissioners {ill these benefactions are now Parcel Post & Annuity &; Insurance Office (RailwaX
Sub-Office. Letters should have RS.O. Gloucester-
administered by the Trustees of the Prestbury Parochial shire added).-George James Barnett Sumption, sub-
Charities. The Hewletts is the seat and property of Col. W. postmaster. Letters arrive at 5 a.m. &; 2.55 p.m.;
Agg J.P. Prestbury Court, the seat of Major-Gen. Wm. dispatched at 12.40 &; 7 p.m.; sundays, 5.30 p.m
Henry Kerr, is a mansion of stone, standing in its own

grounds. Frederick Worsey esq. of the Woodlands, Chel- National School, Bouncer's lane (mixed & infants), built

tenham, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners in 1835, &; enlarged in 1875, for 200 children; average

are the Rev. John Baghot De la Bere M.A. vicar of Bux- attendance, IQ7 mixed &; 39 infants; there is a resi-

ted, Sussex, Christ-opher Capel esq. and Col. William Agg, dence for the master; John Rylands, master; Mrs.

. of the Hewletts. The soil is various, from keen sand to Rylands, mistress; Miss Rylands, infants' mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. i Morse 'Henry, Park view Meredith Thomas, blacksmith

(For Pittville, see Cheltenham.) New Miss, Elmfield Miles George H. beer retailer

Agg Col. William J.P. The Hewletts : O'Brien Mrs. Delhome ~inett Edward, fa.rmer, Lynworth frm

Babington Augustus Gisborne, Priory Oslbaldeston William, Cressy house NewmuIIJ Emeline (Miss), laundress,

Ballinger In. Henry, Tatchley retreat Parkinson Thos. Tertius, Cruzille viI Spring cottage, Bouncer's lane

Balcombe WiIliam, Craven house Pearson Jo.hn, Prestbury green Page. &; Co. millers (wateT)

Basevi Mrs. Yew Tree house Pritchard Geo. Herbt. The Lindens Parker Waiter &i Frank, market

Bridgewater Mrs. Hygeia Ral:.g Orlando, Quilon villa, Prest- gardeners & dai.rymen, Noverton

Bubb Samuel, Finchcroft bury road Pearcl'l George, jobbing gardener

Burrard William, Oakland villa, Prest-. Ross Rev. Alex. Hurst (curate) PleydeU Fredk. W. frmr. Piccadilly fm

bury road Scotford LambertWilliam,I The Limes Pleydel'l Thomas, market gardener &

Burrows William, I The Cedars Shelton Capt. Frederick, Tatchley ho dairyman, South view

Capel Christr. J.P. Prestbury house Simpson Joseph Hodge, Cleeve lodge Poulston Wm. mkt.g-dn.r. Oaldey gdns

Chapman Francis, Oaklands Smith Rev.Hy.Urling M.A. Vicarage Pritchard Annie (Mrs.), laundress,

Clark Mrs. Tatchley cottage Smith James Arthur, Welland lodge Woodbine cottage

Clark William, Park' villas Wintour Frederick A. Cresswell house, Ratcliffe Henry, plumbe·r, Mill street

Cockerell John, Kingsbury cottage Westbury road Richings Geo. farmer, Church farm

Combe Charles, High street COMMERCIAL. Roberts Frdk. Jas. frmr. Novertn fnn

Davis Mrs. T. Hirnant Baylis Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker Robey' John, market gardener, Upper

Dowdeswell William, Rose cottage Bradfield Edwin, collector of rates & Rye.li.eld g-a.rdens

'East Mrs. Morningside taxes, Rockingham vils.Prestbury I'd Simmons George, Bee Hive P.H

Edwards William, Whitmore house, Brain William, baker, High street Spragg Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer

Prestbury road Brown James, frmr. Knoll Hill farm Stevens Chas. pony carriage owner

Ekins Capt. Frank, Hayes cottage Burton Jas. Hy. farmer, Hill farm Sumption Geo. Jas. R grcr. Post off

Ekins Miss, 2 Tatchley villas Carter Harry George, shopkeeper, Taylor Frank, market gardener, Rye-

.Furley Mrs. The Cleevelands Prestbury road field gardens

Green The Misses, Salford house Charman James, King's Arms P.H Walker James, Fox & Hounds P.H

Griffith Mrs. Llanfair Cole Brothers, bakers, Manor house Webb Elizabeth (Mrs.), shirt maker

Hemming Miss, Finsbury lodge Davis Daniel, builder, general decora- Wiggall Jane (Mrs.), beer retailer

Hobley Alfred Jones, 2 The Limes tor & undertaker. See advert Wiggett Alfred, dairyman

Holland Edward, Hillesden Dowdeswell Robert, coal dealer Wilks Jesse & William, butchers

Hyett James, Finsbury, Prestbury I'd Fildes William Thomas, market gar- Wise Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer

Inglis Lionel Arthur Lister, Inglisby dener, The Laurels Wood Wm. baker & miller (water)

Johnson William G. S'Pring lodge Fluck Ailsworth, shopkeeper Woodward George, wbee:wright

Kerr Major-General William Henry, Foreman David, beer retailer Working Men's Club & Institute(Wm.

Prestbury court Gingell Henry, farmer, Longmead ClueI', sec)

Killingbeck William, 2 The Cedars Hobbs Hy.frmr. Lower Noverton frm Wortley Arthur, boot maker

Lawson Frank, Thorntonvil:e Hook Thomas, tailor

Le-Blanc Arthur, The Hayes Hopwood & Son, nurserymen &c (For other names see Cheltenham.)

Lockwood Miss, I Tatchley villas Martin Alfred, shoe maker

PRE STON is a parish and village, 11 miles south-east are 130 sittings. The register·dates .from the year 1677.
from Cirencester stations on the Great Western and Mid- The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £220, includ-

land and Sooth 'Vest .Junction railways, and 6 north- ing 275 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Thos.

west from Cricklade, and adjacent to the high road be- William Chester Master esq. and held since 1895 by the
tween the two towns; it is in the Eastern division of the Rev. Melville Russell Moore RA. of Trinity Hall, Cam-
county, hundred of Crowthorne and Minety, Cirencester bridge. Preston House is the residence of Mrs. Mildred.
petty sessional division, union and county court district, Thomas William Chester Master esq. of .The Abbey, Ciren-
and in the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Cirencester cester, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The
and diocese ()f Gloucester. The church of All Saints is soil is principally stone -brash, oolite; subsoil, clay. The
an ancient building of stone, principally in the Early Eng- chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is
lish style, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, south 2,042 acres; rateable value, £1.991; the population in
porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, 1891 was 191.
containing 4 bells: the chancel retains sedilia and piscina, Letters through Cirencester arrive at 8 a.m. Wall Letter
and hagioscopes: there are several tablets t{) the Master Box cleared at 6,45 p.m. week days only. Cirencester,
family, and two memorial windows, one of which is to a 11 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph
former vicar (}f the parish, who died in 1861: the church office
plate was chiefly presented by the Misses Master in 1690, Parochial School (mixed), built in 1851, for 40 children;
and there is also a splendid .chalice, dated I717: the nave average attendance, 31; there is a house for the mis-
was thoroughly rest-ored and re-pewed in 1862: there tress; :Miss Edith Matthews, mistress

Field Jonathan, Norcott Borton Edward WaIter, farmer Lock John, miller (water) & farmer

Mildred Mrs. Preston house Cambray Thoma'S, sbopkpr. &; carrier Pullin Huntley, farmer, Norcott farm

Moore Rev. Melville Russell RA. Lawrence Charles,farm bailiff to Thos. Reeves Charles, farm bai;iff to B.

Vicarage Lewis esq. Preston farm Ellett esq

PRESTON, near Ledbury, is a parish on the borders hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, petty sessional
of Herefordshire, intersected by the high roads from divisiun, union and county court district of Newent, and
Gloucester and Newent to Leominst-er, and from Ledbury in the rural deanery of North Forest and archdeaconry
to Ross; it is 3 miles north-west from Dymock station and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. John the
on the Gloucester, Ledbury and Worcester branch of the Baptist is a small edifice of stone, in the Norman style,
Great Western railway, 6! north-north-west from Newent, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle,
3 south-west from Ledbury and 16 north-north-west from porch, and a low bell-cot on the western gable containing
Gloucester, in the Forest of Dean division of the county, 2 bells: within the porch, which dates from the 14th cen-

DIRECTORY.] , GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Pl.JCKLECH"CRCH. 269

tury, is a. Norman doorway, the tJmpanum of which has a. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor
carving in relief Qf the A,gnus Dei: the church was re- and sole landowners. The soil is deep red loam; subsoil,
stQred in 1859, when a south aisle was added; the chancel clay and rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas,
was restored in 1885: the stained east window was erec- beans, apples and pears. The area of the civil parish is
ted in 1885 as a memorial to the Rev. Alfred Newton 884 acres; rateable value, £813; the population in 1891
M.A. rector 1863-84: some old stained glass, illustrating was 70 in the civil parish, and in the ecclesiastical, 219.

the" Crucifixion," has been retained in one of the windows Parish Clerk, Thomas Brown.
in the south aisle: there are 100 sittings. The register
Letters throDg'h Ledbury arrive at 8,45 a.m. Wall Let-
dates from the year 1665. The living IS a rectory, net ter Box, Swords green, cleared at 3·50 pnn. week days
only. Dymock & Ledbury, both 3 miles distant, are
value £210, including 2 acres of glebe, with residence. the nearest money order & telegraph offices
in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held
by the Rev. Arthur Percival Doherty M.A. of Trinity The children of this place -attend the schools at Much
Marde, Little Marcle, Ledbury & DJlllock
College, Dublin. Preston Court is a building of the 17th
century, now occupied by Mr. William Hartland, farmer.

Cale William, Vale lodge Blandford Sophia (Mrs.),frmr.Mirables Hartland Wm. farmer, Preston court

Doherty Rev. Arthur Percival M.A. Brown Thomas, blacksmith PoweU William, farmer

(rector), Rectory Darke Wm. Albt. farmer, Henbarrows Spencer Richard, farmer, Velt house
Stallard William, Glyniddens Hartland Jas. Edgar,frmr. Hay Traps Watkins James, farmer, High house .

•

PRESTON-ON-STOUR is a village and parish on value £66, in the gift of James Roberts-West esq. and held

the Warwickshire border, and on the west bank of the since 1887 by the Rev. Francis Henry Hastings. There

Stour, and is 3 miles south-east from Milcote station On are charities of £3 10S. 8d. yearly value, which are distri-

the Honeybourne and Stratford branch of the Great buted in money yearly. Alscot Park House, a noble Gothic

Western railway, 31 south from Stratford-on-Avon, and Itructure, in a well-wooded deer park of 200 acres, is the
36 north-east from Gloucester, in the Eastern division of lleat of James Roberts-West esq. D.L. lord of the manor

the county, upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, and principal landowner. Mr. Robert Mansell is also a

petty sessional division of Campden, union and county landowner. The soil is loam; subsoil, stiff clay. The

court district of Stratford-on-Avon, rural deanery of crops are wheat, beans and barley. The area is 1,990

Campden, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of acres; rateable value land, £850; buildings, £1,1I8;

Gloucester. The church of St. Mary is a plain building the population in 1891 was 276.

of st<me, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an Sexton, John Monk.

embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 3 Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office.-l\Irs. Sarah

bells: there is a fine monument to the Kemp family, Darn, sub-postmistress. Letters Ithrough Stratford-

1624, and several to the West family, including one to the on-Avon, arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched 5. IS p.m. week
late James Rooerts-West esq. 1882, and others to William days only. Lower Quinton is the nearest money order

Mariett, 1719, and John Mariett, 17°9: there ,are four office
£tained windows, including the east window, presented by National School, built, with two houses attached for the

James 'West, in 1754; in 1885, about i of an acre of master & mistress, in 1848, at a cost of £1,5°0, by the

ground was given by James Roberts-West esq. as an late J. R. West esq.; the school will hold 120 children;

.addition to the churchyard, the old Jlortion of which i. average attendance, 47 boys, 35 girls & 23 infants; &

closed: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from is partly supported by J . .Roberts-West esq.; George

the J'ear 1540. The living is ,a vicarage, gross yearly Frederick Clark, master; Mrs. Clark, mistresS'

Hastings Rev. Francis Henry (vicar) Beavington Richard, baker Stokes James,agent to James Roberts-
West esq
West Jas. R(}berts- D.L. Alscot park George Frederick, carpenter
Tullet Henry, head gardener to Jas•
cmIMEllCIAL. Gould Henry, farmer Roberts-West esq

.Ashbey Henry, frmr. Preston pasture James Thomas, farmer, White hill Winter Thomas, blacksmith

Bullock Thomas, farm bailiff to James Mansell Robert, landowner & farmer

Roberts-West esq Smith Giles, farmer

PRINKNASH PARK, formerly extra-parochial, is .1846: it was afterwards in the possession of his son,

now a parish, containing but three houses, 4l miles south- Benjamin St. John Ackers esq. but is now the property
of Thomas Dyer Edwardes esq. J.P. who has enlarged the
east from Gloucester, in the Northern division of the chapel, l'estored the house and otherwise improved the
county, hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, and premises. The scenery round Prinknash Park is remark-
Gloucester petty sessional division, union and county
ably picturesque, and some very extensive views are
court district. The mansion, which is seated on a mope obtained from the house; the park of 110 acres is beauti-
-uf the Cotswold hills, and dates from 1520, was a country fully timbered. The soil and subsoil are mainly oolite.
seat of the abbots of Gloucester, and here Parker, the The whole of the land is pasture. The area is 227 acres;
last abbot, received King Henry VIII. The ancient
rateable value, £518; the population in 1891 was 14.
chapel, and other portions of the house, were beautifully Letters from Stroud, via. Painswick, which is the nearest
Testored in 1847, by the late owner, James Ackers esq.
formerly M.P. for Ludlow, who purchased the estate in money order &; telegraph office, 2 miles distant

Edwardes Thomas Dyer J.P

:PUCKLECHURCH is a parish and village, 3 miles of the manor, and Sir John Henry Greville Smyth bart.
~ast from Mangotsfield station on the Bristol and Bir- M.A. of Ashton Court, Bristol, M'clj.-Gen. the hone Sir
mingham section of the Midland railway, 8 north-east G. S. Whitmore K.C.M.G. of Wellington, N.Z. Charles
from Bristol,s S'Outh from Chipping Sodbury and IIO A1gernon Whitmore esq. 1fI.P., of the Manor House,
from London, in the Southern division of the county, Lower Slaughter, Stow, and Major Fiennes- Boughton
PuckLechurC'h hund'red, petty sessional divisi(}n of Sod- Newton Dickenson, of Siston Court, are the chief land-
/bury, Chipping Sodbury union and county court district, owners. The SQil is loamy; subsoil, clay and rock.
rural deanery of Bitton and I3rchdeaconry and diocese 01 The chief crops- are wheat, oats and beans, and about
llristol. The church of St. Thomas the Martyr is an one-h.alf is pasture. The area is 2,261 acres; rateable
-ancient building of stone, in the Early English and value, £7,324; the population in 1891 was 1,335 civil,
Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nav~ of four and 1,555 ecclesiastical.
bays, north aisle, pO'l'ch, and a towe,r with pinnacles,
'Containing a clock and 6 bellSi: the north doorway is SHORTWOOD hamlet is 2 miles west.

Norm-an: the church was restored in 1889-90, at a cost Sexton, Thomas Nicholas.

of £1,246, and has 300 sittings. The register dates from Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & IrtsUirance
the year 1590. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry
tOf Abson annexed, joint net yearly value £350, including Office.-Albt. Cooper, sub-postmaster. LetterS' through
Bristol arrive at 7.35 a.m. & 4.50 p.m.; dii"patched
50 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Dean
and Chapter of Wells, anlt held since 1891 by the Rev. at 9.50 a.m. & 7.10 p.m
Sidney George Gillum M.A. of St. Peter's College, Gun-
bridge. There are Congregational and Primitive Metho- Wall Letter Box, Railway Bridge, cleared 1.5 &; 8 p.m.;
dist chapels. A sum of £12, derived from the rents of two Shortwood Hill, cleared at 12.55 & 7.50 p.m.; &.
Ranks, Parkfield, cleared at 8.40 a.m. &; 5.30 p.m
cottages, given by the late Mr. Attwell, is applied yearly
in apprenticing poor boys. In this parish alre two coal- SCBiOOLS.
llits. In a field at the back of the Star inn formerly
stood the palace of the Saxon Kings, where King National (mixed), built about 1845, for 100 children,
"'Edmund I. was slain by Liofa Or Leolf, a robber, at a &; now accommodates 150; -average attendance, 130;
& endowed with £32 yearly; John Haynes, masteil'
lmnquet A.D. 946. The Earl of Radoor, who is lord
A School Board was formed in 1894 consisting of 5

270 PUCKLECHURCH. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

members; clerk, N. W. Jefferies, Aslllodge; attendance Police S'tation,. Henry W oo:ford, acting sergeant, & !

officer, John Boden, Mead cottage constable
Bo~rd School (infants), built in 1894 for Bo children;
Carriers to BristoI.-Crew, mono thurs. &; sat. &; WaIters,
average attendance, 55; Mrs. Amelia Edgar Maxwell, wednesda~·s

mistress

Coney Hbt. Frdk. J.P. The Poplars Crook J oseph, saddler &; harness ma Orchard WilIiam, butcher

Dunscombe Matthew ",Yilliam, Short- Cross Frederick, shpkpr. Shortwood Packer Jame;;, blacksmith

wood lodg8 DorE; 1YiHiam, grocer Packer John, butcher

Gibbs Thomali, St. Aldam's' Ash Drury Frederick, farmer, Park farm Packer Louisa (Mrs.), frmr. Oak frm

Gillum Rev.Sidney Geo.M.A.Vicarage Evans Fredk. farmer, Redford farm Panting Jesse, frmr. Horwoods farm

Gordon Alexander Evans Geo. Nic'holas, frmr. Court frm Powell WiUiam,beer retailer,Shortwood

Hallett Mrs. E:m view Gibbs Thos. farmer, St. Aldam's Ash Preece Elizabeth (Miss), beer retailer

Hanoock Charles, The Grey house Greenwood Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Lyde Reed George, Fleur-de-lis P.H

Jefferies Albert George W. Ash lodge Green farm Sellman In. frmr. Barley Close farm

Rathlbone John, Shortwood Iles James, Shrubbery lodge Shortwood Brick & Tile Co. Limited

Smith Rev. Maxwell Hombray B.A. Johnson Fras. Jsph. White Hart htl (W. F. Collins, managing director)

(curate) Kingswood &; Parkfield Colliery Co. (letters addressed Mangotsfield)

COMMERCIAL. Lim. (John T. Onions, manager) SticIder Enoch, shoe maker

AlIen Charles, farmer AI; cattle dealer Lovell Samuel, Star inn Summerill Samuel, shopkeeper

Barton J ames, painter Nicholas Thomas, boot maker T aanv• nloerr William, farmer, Park farm
Boulton Charles, shopkeeper &; farmer Nicholls Joseph, wheelwright & crpntr T WilIiam,farmer,Shortwood frm

Bright Thomas, tiler &; plasterer Nicholls Thomas, wheelwright & car· Telling William, farmer

Cooksley Alfd. frmr. Shortwood farm penter &; assistant overseer Willcox Thomas, shopkpr. ShorbVJ'ld

Cooper Albert, shopkeeper, Post office Noble Evan, greengrocer, Parkfield ",Vookey Charles, farmer, Dodd's farm

Q UED GE LEY is a village and parish, on the high of the parish. Quedgeley House, pleasantly situated in
Toad from Gloucester to Bristol, and near the Gloucester a fine park, is. the prop6'rty of Lieut.-Col. John Frederick.
~md Berkeley Ship Oanal, and navigable river Severn, 3 Curtis-Hrtyward J.P. 100'd of the manor and chief land.
miles south from Gloucester, at which are the ne'ares,t owner, and is at present occupied by Mrs. Robinson,
railway stations {In the G>reab Western and Midland als'O of Silksworth Hall, Sunderland. The chief crops ar",
railways, in the Northern division of the county, Whit· wheat, beans, potatoes, fruit, roots .and pasturage. The
sone and Dudstone hundred, petty ses·sional division of soil is' blue IiaS'; subsoil, various. The area. is 1,310 acres
Whitminster, Gloucester union and county court dis· of land, 22 of water and 5 of tidal wat€'1'; rateable value,
trict and in the rural deanery, archdeaconrr and diocese £5,421; the population in 1891 was 476 in the civil
of Gloucester. The churcb of St. James· IS' an ancient parish, llnd 447 in the ecclesiastical.
building of stone, consisting Qf chancel, nwe of four
ba}s, aisles, south porch, and a wesiern tower {)f the By L{)cal Government Board Order 16,525, Mar. 25,
1885, a detached pa,rt of Hempstead parish known as
12th century, with spire and containing a. clock and 8 Simms Bridge and Rae Lane were trmsferred to
Quedgeley and by same Order, Netheredge Farm was
bells: the south aisl8 is also 'lIncient, but the rest of the -added to Hempstead and The Toots to Whaddon from
church is largely modern, and the north aisle was added Qlledge1ey.

at the restoration in 1857. The east window and one Parish Clerk, Charles Cooke.

on the south side of the chancel are stained: the churoh Post Office.-Mrs. Charlotte Ann Harris, sub-postmis-
tres'S. Letters arrive from Gloucester at 8 a.m.; dis-
was resto~ in 1887-91 at a. cost of £700, and affords patched at 6 p.m. on week days. Postal orders are
issued here, but not paid. The neatl'est money order
250 sittings. The register dates from the }ear 155B. office is at Gloucester & telegraph office at Bardwick,
The living is' a rectory, net yellrly value £140, including
3 acres of glebe with !fesidence, in the gift of Lieut.-Col. I mile distant
J. F. Curtis-HJayward, and held since 1896 by the Rev. Nationa~ School (mixed), for 120 children; average at-
Stephen O:lrnish M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. Here is
tendance, 90; there is a residence for the master;
a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1886. A sum formerly
Thomas Beacall, master
varying from one to two pounds, but now (1897) anIJ
amounting to about 12S. and derived from Cox's (Badg-
worth) charity, is annually distributed among the poor

Boyce Edwin, Quedgeley cot. High'rd Browning Ralph John, farmer, The Roaper William, clerk to the parish

Byatt William James Chas.FerndaJe vil Greoen farm council

Cornish Rev. Stephen M.A. The Rectry Cole Alban, builder & contractor; Hunt George Henry, commercial trav-

Curtis-Hayward Lieut.-Col.John Fred- estimates furnished &c. fruit.& cider eller, Fairfield villa ,

erick J.P. Manor Farm house mro-. & market gardener,Read's farm Land Edward, cattle dlr. The Chantry

Curtis-Hayward The Misses, Manor Cole Sidney, carpenter Lovell Henry, farmer, HighcIiffe farm

Farm house Ford JameSl, blacksmith, High road Merrett Henry,farmr. Quedgeley farm

Lapington Henry, Quedgeley villa Guilding William. Plough inn; good Newcombe James, shopkeeper

Mounsell Henry, Quedgeley court accommodation for visitors, tourists, PockneU TilOmas,farmer,Upper Water-

Robinson },ollrs. Quedgeley house cyclists & pleasure parties; stabling well farm

Robinson WilIiam Grey, Quedgeley ho & posting kc.; fruit dealer & basket Priday Sophia (Miss), grocer

Taylor WilIiam, The Hive maker Stone Henry, farmeiI',Church Green fro

• Harris Alfred, carpenter Tombs Charles Henry, shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. Harris Arthur, farmer ,& haulier Vick Joseph, farmer, Lower 'Water-

Brown William, shoe maker, High rd Hawkes Saml. Beach, bakr. &; shopkpr wells farm

QUENINGTON is a parish and village, on the river tion31 chapel and a room for the use {If the Plymouth
CoIn, 21 miles north from Fairford terminal station of Brethren. Here are charities of the yearly value of £10,
the East Gloucesters'hire branch of the Great 'Western distributed in kind. The Right Hon. Sir Michael Edward

railway, and B! north-east from Cirencester, in the Hicks-Beach barl. P.C., M.P. who is lord of the manor.

Eastern division of the county, Brightwells Barr<rw and Sir Thomas Sebastian Bazley bart. of Hatherop

hundred, Falrlord petty sessional division, union and Castle, are the principal landowners'. The soil is stone

county court district of Cirencester, rural deanery ot brash; subsoil, rock and clay. The chief crops are
Fairford, archdea00nry of Cirencester and diocese of wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,996 acres; rate-
Gloucester. The church of St. Swithin is It very small able value, [1,471; the population in 1891 was 366.
and plain edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, Sexton, Joshua. Fowles.
two porches and a. western turret containing 2 bells: the
north and south doorways are Norman, much enriched, Post Office.-John Lander, sub-postmaster. Letters
arrive from Fairford S.O. at 6 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dis-
and there is one stained window: the church was' com· patched tlt 12.25 & 7.40 p.m.; sunday, 7-40 p.m.

pletely restored in 1882, at a cost ot £1,285, principally Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The

defrayed by the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach bart. nearesb money order office k telegraph office is at Coin
Saint Aldwyn's. 1 mile distant
M.P. and Sir T. S. Bazley bart.: there are sittings fOor
National School (mixed), built in 1867, for 60 children;
ISO persons. The register dates from the year 1631. The aveoo1ge attendance, 59; Mis's Edith Rose Peppel',
mistress
living is a reet-ory, net yearly value £140, including- 60

acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Right

Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks-Beach bart. M.P. and held since
1887 by the Rev. Frederick R.obert Steavenson M.A. of Carriers. John Lander & Son, to Cirencester, mOD.
Emmanuel College, Oambridge. There is a Congrega. I wed. &; fri

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. RANDWlCK. 271

Kent Mrs Cook Albert Jesse-, farmer Lander John & Son, carriers, bill pos-

Steavenson Rev. Frederick Robt. M.A. Debney Lawrence, miller (water) ters; ponies & traps & covered wag-

Rectory Finch Emily & Elizabeth Mary gonette for hire, Post office

Tovey William, The Elms (Misses), dress makers Lewis Walter, baker

Gibson Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Maslin Ernest Albert, blacksmith &
Gillett Charle'S, farm.er, Manor farm
COMMERCIAL. dairyman

.Archer Richard, coal dealer Godwin WiIIlam doynes, builder Miles Loonard Thomas, carpenter

Arnold John, brewer's agent & contractor, wholesale dealeT in Moss Thomas, beer retailer

Chard Edward, farmer, Manley's farm sanitary goods P-ension William Stayt, farmer

Claridge .A.rthur Wm. Thos. beer retailr Grainger E<lward, grocer Stevens George. gamekeeper to James

Clifford Reuben Chas. farmer, Hone~y- Lander John Robert,carrier,see Lander Jones esq

comb Leaze farm John & Son, Rose cottage .

LOWER QUINTON, a village and parish, 2 miles Quinton, £100 left by an nnknown donor, and £50 by
east from Long Marston station on the Honeybourne
John Henney, late of Quinton; these sums are invested
and Stratford branch of the Great Western railway, is 6
south-by-west from Stratford-on-Avon, 6 north-by-east in the £21 per cent. Consols. The manor belongs to
from Chipping Campden and 34 north-east from Glou-
cester, in the Eastern division of the county, upper the President and Scholars of Magdalen College, Oxford,
division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, petty sessional
who are the principal landowners; and Mrs. Hiatt, of
division of Campden, union and county court district
of Shipston-on-Stour, rural deanery of Campden, arch- Quinton House, is also a landowner. The soil is a heavy

deaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. The loam; subsoil, stiff clay; the crops are wheat, beans and
church of St. Swithin is a building of stone, in the Nor-
pasture. The area of the parish is 4,800 acres; rateable
man and Later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles,
north porch and a fine embattled western tower, with value, buildings £861, land £2,747; the population in
pinnacles and an octagonal spire lI5 feet high, and con-
taining a clock and 6 bells: there is an ancient altar 1891 was· 447 in Upper and Lower Quinton tithing, and
tomb with recumbent effigy to Sir Thomas Rous, ob.
565 in the ecclesiastical parish.
14'99, and an altar tomb of grey marble, with canopied
effigy to Ann, widow of Sir (Wm.) Clopton, c. 1430 ; the UPPER QUINTON is a hamlet half a mile south from
tomb bears shields of arms, and a marginal inscription in
Latin forming eight lines: it was repaired in 1739 by T. Lower Quinton.
Lingen esq. There are other memorials to Anne (Bur-
ton), wife of Thomas Lingen, of Radbrook, d. 1737: .AD~I.'NG.TON'IS a hamlet I! . .south-east; the
Thomas Lingen esq. d. 1742, and several children: Sir mile.s
area IS 958 acres; r~teab!e value, bmldmgs £399~ land
Thomas Overbury kt. of Bourton-on-the-Hill, was buried £1,3 18 ; the popula~lO~ m 1891 w~s n8. .AdJ?lngton
here in 1680: the stained east window is a memorial to ~all, a handsome building of stone, III the ClaSSIC style,

Louisa Corbett, d. 1870, and there are also monuments IS n0'Y to let. . . ~
to the Corbett family: there are sedilia and a piscina in ParIsh Clerk, iWilham Barlow. Stanley.

the south aisle, and in the north aisle a piscina and Post & M. O. 0., .S. R & Annmty & Insurance Office.-

canopied niche: some fragments of old glass also remain: Thomas Hemmmg, sub-post.master. ~etters through
Str.atford-on-Avon & for Ad~gton, Shlpston-on-Stour,
the font is Norman: the church was thoroughly restored
in 1864, at a cost of [,1,500, and affords 365 sittings. delivered at 8.20 a.m.; dIspatched at.5 p.m. week
days only. T~e nea.rest telegraph office 13 at Preston-
The register dates from the year 1547- The living is a
vicarage, yearly value [,130, including 4 acres of glebe, on-Stour, 2 Illiles dIstant .
with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter o~
Worcester, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Edmund Wall Letter Box, Upper Qumton, cleared at 4.30 p.m.
Cumberland RA. of Caius College, Cambridge. There
is a charity of £100 left by Micbael Corbett esq. of Upper week days only

SCHOOLS.

Church of England (mixed), built, with master's house,

by Corbett Holland-Corbett esq. in 1864, at a. cost of

£600, for 108 children; average attendance, 70 boys &;

girls & 30 infants; & supported in part by an endow-

ment of about £45 a year, left in 1864 by Corbett

Holland-Corbett esq. &:, Michael Corbett esq.; Wi1lia~

Irving, master; Miss Marian Irving, mistress

Carriers to Stratford-on-Avon,.-Henry Gibbs, wed. &; fri

LOWER QUINTON. 'Lewis Charles, carpenter Matthews James, blacksmith

Oumbell'land Rev. Edmund RA. Matthews James, blacksmith Sanders John, shopkeeper

Vicarage Plested Williaro, carpenter AD~ITNGiTON.
Hiatt Mrs. Quinton house Purser Joseph Blundell, farmer

Badger George·, farmer, Moon hill Sanders John, machine owner Caless William, farmer

Ball Richard, farmer Sanders Thomas, grocer & farmer Collett Daniel, cowkeeper

Banning Thomas, gardener Simmons John, boot makeT' Collett William, farmer

Corbett Cotterill, farmer StanIey William Barlow, College Arms CrossIey Frederick, farmer

Gibbs Henry, carrier P.H. & farmer & overseer Emms William, carpenter

Gray Wm. Oliver, farmer, Lower Meon Wyatt William, butcher '& farmer Hayward Joseph, farmer

Hemming Thos. wheelwright, Post off Righton Walter John, farmer

Horniblow Henry, farmer, 'Radbrook UPPER QUINTON. RusseU Thomas, shopkeeper

Izard Philip James, machine owner Gough Frederick P. farmer Wilson Eliza (Mrs.), blacksmith

RANDWICK is a parish and village, with the hamlet in the gift of the Vicar of Standish, and held since 1897
by the Rev. John Clough Hayward M.A. of Hertford
of Oxlinch, 11 miles north-west from Stroud station on College, .Oxon. There are Primitive Methodist and Wes-
leyan chapels. The charities amount to a'bout £60 yearly,
the Great Western railway and 8 south from Gloucester,
in the Mid division of the county, Whitstone hundred, derived from land, of which £37 10S. is devoted to educa-
petty sessional division of Whitminster, Stroud union tion, £10 for church purposes, and £12 10S. is distri-
and county court district, and in the rural deanery,
archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church of buted to the poor in kind; there is also a bequest of
St. John is an ancient building of stone, in the Perpen- £500, invested in 3 per cent. Consols, the interest of
dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, which is left in the hands of the rector and church.
aisles, west porch and an embattled western tower con- wardens for distribution at their discretion. From Rand-
taining 4 bells: the church was rest{)l'ed and enlarged in
1867, under the direction of Mr. Baker, architect, of wick Ash a splendid view is obtained of the Malvern
Cainscross, Stroud, and further restored in 1894-6, at a
cost of £1,850; the work inCluded the rebuilding of the Hills, the vale of Gloucestershire and the Severn.
south aisle, in place of the old donble transepts, in the Thomas Edward Morris Barrow M.A. of Bath House,
Early English style, and the. erection of an aisle in
memory of the Rev. John Elliott M.A. vicar 1819-91, Taunton, is lord of the manor. The soil is limy; sub-
when he died at the advanced age of 100 years; this soil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, turnips and
aisle opens into the chancel .by two new arches: the
ehancel has II.lso been new roofed, an organ chamber pasture. The area is 604 acres; rateable value, £1,374;
added and a stained east window presented by friends the population in 1891 was civil, 546; ecclesiastical, 638,
of the late vicar: a rose window, the gift of the' late and in 1894 785; portions of this parish were transferred
John Libby esq. in memory of his daughter, bas been under the "Divided PaIjshes Act," to the parishes of
Haresfield, Moreton Valence, Standish, Stonehouse and
placed at the west end, and a further stained window Stroud, and portions of the parishes of Stroud and
on the south side by Mrs. Libby, in memory of her late
husband: there are 312 sittings-o The register' dates Standish transferred to Randwick, and some portions of
from the year 1662. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Stonehouse have been re-transferred to Randwiek.

value £145, including 55 acres of glebe, with residence, Parish Clerk, James Bolton.
'

Post OffiC6. James lBolton, sub-postmasterr ldtters via

Stroud at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 4,44.-}..m.; sun-

days, 7.30 a.m. ,Postal orderi pre issued flere~but not

•

272 RANDWICK. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is attendance, 160; it is endowed with £37 IOS. yearly,
mentioned above; there is a house for the master;
at Cainscross Thomas Mortimer, master; Miss Locke, Miss M. Sum-

National School (mixed), built in 1856 & enlarged in ners & Miss Pow ell, assistant mistresses

1872 & 1879 & 1884 & 1894, for 170 children; average

Carpenter John Howell, Longcourt Baxter Henry, grocer I Fluck Peter, shopkeeper
Hayward Rev. John Clough M.A. Beard William, butcher
Blanch Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Hale WaIter Charles, beer retailer
Vicarage Cole Arthur, shoe maker
Martin Thomas, Blenheim Cole Thomas, shopkeeper J cnkins Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Orchard Mrs. Pool cottage Cratchley William, Rising Sun P.H
Fennemore John, haulier Jones Thomas, carter
COMMERCIAL. ~Iartin Robert, farmer

Barnfield Frederick. assistant overseer Shelton George, 'beer ret. & shopkeepr

RANGEWORTHY is s parochial chapeIry, on the vicarage, net yearly value £145, including 9 acres of
glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Vicar of Thorn.
road from Bristol to Straud, and bounded on the west bury, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Frederick Went.
worth Vernon. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan
by the river Leadon; it is 3 miles north from Yate chapels. William Phelps esq. of Chestal, Dursley, is lord
of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is sand and
station on the Bath and Bristol extension of the Midland clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley
railway, 5 south-east from Thornbury, 5 north-west from and some land in pasturage. The area is 895 acres;
Chipping Sodbury and II north-east from Bristol, in the rateable value, £1,384; the population in 1891 was 234.

Southern division of the county, hundred. petty sessional .
division, union and county court district of Thornbury, Post & M. 0: 0., S. B. & Annmty & Insurance Office._

rural deanery of Hawkesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol T~omas SImmonds. ~ub-postmaster. L~tters through
and diocese of Gloucester. The church of the Holy WlCkwar. R. S. 0.. arrIve at 8 a.m.; dIspatched a~ 4
Trinity, restored in 185I, is B !building of stone, in the p:m. WlCkwar IS the nearest telegraph office, 4 miles

Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north dIstant
aisle, south porch and B western bell turret containing
one bell: the nave is separated from the chancel by a School (mixed), built in 1873, for 96 children; average
attendance, 64; &; supported in part by W. Phelps
Norman arch, and the south doorway is of the same esq.; there is a house for the mistress; Miss Emily

date: there are 120 sittings: in 1889. W. J. Phelps esq. Guest, mistress

lord of the manor, presented one-fifth of an acre of land
to the parish for the enlargement of the burial ground.

The register dates from the year 1690' The living is a

Cannon Henry William Compton William, farmer Simmonds Thos. shopkpr. & Post off

Sheldon John Henry Cowles Albert, blacksmith & farmer Smith John, jun. farmer, Pool

Vernon Rev. Frederick Wentworth, Drew Robt. carpentr. & wheelwright Smith Thomas Bennett, farmer,Range-

Vicarage Harford Robert, farmer & bIick maker wo.rthy court •

Hobbs William, farmer 'White Thomas, beer retailer

COMMERCIAL. Hull Thomas, farmer Williams William Werrett, Rose &

Bedgood Henry, shopkeeper Mills John, farmer Crown P .H. & assistant overseer

Brittain William, farmer Pullen John, farmer

RENDCOMBE is a parish and village, on the river residence, in the gift of the owner of the manor, and
Churn. and a short distance east of the road from Glou- held since 1887 by the Rev. George Arthur Edwin
cester to Cirencester, 5 miles north from Cirencester Kempson M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. There
stations on the Great Western and Midland and South is a private Fire 'Brigade here, established in 1893; H.
Saunders, captain, and 8 men. Rendcomb Park is the
West Junction railways and la south-east from Chelten- property of Mrs. Taylor: the mansion, a magnificent
building of stone, in the Italian style, erected in 1864.5,
ham, in the Eastern division of the county, Rapsgate stands in an old deer park, on a declivity in a well·
hundred. Cirencester petty sessional division, union and wooded domain of about 370 acres of fine undulating
woodland scenery. The spacious hall and various rooms
county court district, and in the rural deanery and arch- contain many valuable oil paintings and water-colour
drawings by celebrated artists: there is also some fine
deaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. The statuary in marble, and a collection of old china. Mrs.
~hurch of St. Peter is B building of stone, in the Perpen- Taylor is lady of the manor and chief landowner. The
dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, soil is loamy and stone brash; subsoil, various. The
south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is
with pinnacles, containing 6 bells: the font dates from 2,509 acres; rateable value, £I,718; the population in
the 14th century, and is enriched with panelled work and 1891 was 229.
figures; and the oak rood screen is in perfect preserva-
tion; indications of the rood 10ft appear in the north Parish Clerk, Benjamin Haywood.
wall of the nave: the east and north windows are stained. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m. Letters through
and in the chancel are several handsome mural monu-
ments to the Berkeley family, who once resided at Rend- Cirencester, arrive at 9.30 a.m. Cirencester is the
combe Park: on the apex of the gable, immediately over nearest telegraph, 5 miles distant, & North eerney
the east window, is a small canopied crucifix, belonging the nearest money order office
either to a more ancient church, portions of which may National School (mixed), for 50 children; average attend·
still be seen built into the north wall, or to the cross snce, 44; there is a house for the master; Thomas
which once stood in the church, and of which the base-
ment of three steps and the stone pediment of the Capener, master
Carriers pass through several times weekly between
shaft still remain: there are 160 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1566. The liTing is a rectory. net Cirencester & Cheltenham

yearly value £30I, including 24 acres of glebe. with

. Kempson Rev. George Arthur Edwin Bridges Thomas, mason Scriven William, earpenter

M.A. Rectory Enoch Walt. baker & shopkpr.i& oversr Tarrant William, blacksmith

Lambert Henry Lambeirl Hemy, accountant Taylor Charles, miller (water)

'Taylor Mrs. Ren.dcomb Park Peache,- In. farm bailiff to :M~rs.Taylor Trotman Joseph, gamekeeper to Mrs.

Butt Henry, farm bailiff to James Tay- Saunders Hy. head gardener to Mrs. Taylor

101', Rendcombe 'buildings Taylor Williams Charles. carpenter

GREAT RISSINGTON is a parish and village, on wife: the north transept retains a piscina and niche
with traces of colour, and there are other traces round a
the river 'Windrush, and on the Oxfordshire border, 3! window: the stained east window was erected as a me-
morial to Katherine Emily, wife of S. Lyle esq. of Lon-
miles south from Bourton-on-the-Water station, on the
Ilanbury and Cheltenham section of the Great Western donderry, and daughter of the late rector: in the chancel
is another piscina: the church has been restwe 1 since
railway, 6 south from Stow-on-the-Wold, 5 north-west
from Burford, 6 north-east from Northleach and 27 east 1873, and affords sittings for 200 persons. The registers
are perfect from the year 1538. The living is a rectory.
from Gloucester. in the Eastern division of the county, gross yearly value £500, with residence, in the gift of
Jower division of Slaughter hundred. Stow-on-the-Wold Edward Rhys Wingfield esq. and held since 1897 by the
petty sessional division. union and county court district, Rev. Henry Madan Pratt M.A. of Pembroke College,
rural deanery of Stow. archdeaconry of Cirencester and Oxford, and J.P. Glos. There is a Primitive Methodist
diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. John the chapel. Several charities, amounting in all to £21 yearly,
Baptist is an ancient building of stone, in the Norman, are given yearly in clothes and linen to the poor. In
Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con- 1896 John Bradley left a sum of money, the interest on
sisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a which, amounting to £2 annually, is given to the two
central embattled tower containing 6 bells: in the south
-transept is a small monument to John Barnard, 1621, oldest and mos~ deserving poor persons in the parish.

with kneeling figures in low relief of himself and his

1DIRECTORY. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. ROCKHAl\IPTON. 273

Edward Rhys Wingfield esq. of Barrington Park, Great 5,4° p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.
Barrington, who is lord of the manor, and the Countess Sherborne, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order
of Camperdown, are the chief landowners. The soil is .& telegraph office

a stone brash; subsoil, clay and brash. The chief crops A School Board of 5 members was formed October 20,
are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 2,420 acres; 1875; W. Smith, clerk to the board & attendance officer
ratPeaarbilseh vCalluerek, , £W2,i2ll6ia3m; tShuercpho.pulation in 1891 was 419.
Post Office.-Mrs. Sarah A. Smith, sub-postmistress. Board School (mixed), built in 1897, for 120 children;
average attendance, 75; William Holmes, master
Letters through Bourton-on-the-Water R.S.O. arrive
at 9.15 a.m. &; 3.25 p.m.; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & Carrier.-William Bartlett, to Stow-on-the-Wold on thurs.

& Burford on sat

Pratt Rev. Henry Madan M.A., J.P. Garne John (exors. of), farmers Smith Albert, wheelwright & black-

Rectory Roward Robert, shoe maker smith & assistant overseer

Agg Edwin, haulier Ryatt James A. beer retailer Smith John, slater.& plasterer

Bartlett William, fa;rmer & carrier Mace Thomas Henry, farm bailiff t{) Smith Sarah A. (Mrs.),grocer, Post off

Brook Grace (Mrs.), farmer E. R. Wingfield esq Smith Thomas William, farmer

Clement J oseph, farmeT' Miller George, beer ;retailer ISmith William, plasterer
Collett Charles, farmer Smith Alfred, farmer Taylor :Mary CMrs.), shopkeeper

LITTLE RISSINGTON is a parish and village, of £1,125, under the direction of Mr. Bassett Smith,
built upon the sandstone rock, and pleasantly seated on architect, of London, and has 150 sittings. The register
rising ground, overlooking the picturesque vale of Bour- dates continuously from the year 1543. The living is a

ton, 2 miles south-east from Bourton-on-the-Water rectory, gross yearly value, £240, arising from 174 acres
station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor,
Great Western railway, 4 south from Stow-on-the-Wold, and held since 1862 by the Rev. Robert Le Marchant
and 27 east from Gloucester, in the Eastern division of }'LA., :M.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. The interest

the county, lower divisiov: of Slaughter hundred, Stow-on- lJf a small endowment left in 1851 by the late G. B.
the-Wold petty sessional division, union and county court Collier, and amounting to £2 15s. yearly, is' distributed
district, rural deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Ciren- yearly at Christmas in bread to the poor. The Manor
cester and diocese of Gloucester. The Stow and Burford House, a handsome mansion in the Elizabethan style, is
at pll~sent occupied by Col. Walter Wynter. The trustees
road runs through the borders of the parish: there is of the late George Bennett esq. are lords of the manor
a small stream to the west flowing into the Windrush and principal landowners. The soil upon the hill is stone
river. The church of St. Peter is a small building of
stone, in the Norman and Later styles, consisting of brash, and in the valley a rich clay; liUbsoil, stone brash.

chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south porch and The land is chiefly meadow and exceedingly fertile. The-
an embattled western tower containing one bell: the two area is 1,3°0 acres; rateable value, £1,517; the popula-
arches separating the nave and north aisles are Norman: tion in 1891 was 221.
the chancel with its eight lancet windows is Early English,
and contains a memorial window to the Rev. R. Wilbraham Parish Clerk, Charles Lane.
Ford, late rector, placed there in 1862 by his children; Post Office. (Letters are received through Bourton-on-
it also retains a piscina and aumbry and a lepers' window;
the staircase to the rood loft also remains; the remaining the-Water R.S.O.)-Mrs. Ellen Forth, sub-postmistress.
windows are Decorated, and the porch and font Perpen- Box cleared at 9.40 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. Letters are-

dicular: in 1850 the church was restored and beautified, received at 9 a.m. & 2.40 p.m. Postal orders are issued
principally at the cost of John Bennett esq. and the then
rector; in 1883 the church was again restored at a cost here, but not paid. Bourton-on-the-Water is the near-

est money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant
Church School (mixed), for 50 children; ayerage attend--

ance, 35; Miss Lomss Broadhurst, mistress

Le· Marchant Rev. Robert M.A., M.D. Collett Charles, farmer Marshall Wm. Hy. coal mer. & farmer-

Rectory Collett Reuben, farmer Nichols Ruth (M;rs.), shopkeeper

Price Samuel Collett Samuel, fa;rmer Oakey Henry, farmer

Smith Lawrence, St. Aldwyns Edmonds Giles, farmer Wakefield Raymond John, farmer~

Wynter Col. Walte,r, Manor home Rill 1\<fanoah Charles, shopkeeper Manor farm .

COMMERCIAL. Roughton Joseph, farmer 'Vebb Wi1liam, farmer

Bartlett Charles, farmer Lane Michael, farmer

WYCK RISSINGTON is a parish and village, 2 year 1739. The living is a rectory, net yearly value~
£185, including 75 acres of glebe, with residence, in the
miles north-east from Bourton-on-the-Water station on gift of Mrs. Paul Butler, and held since 1885 by the Rev.
the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the Great West-
Paul Edward O'Bryen Methuen M.A. of Trinity College,
ern Tailway, 3 south from Stow-on-the-Wold and 2S Cambridge. Three acres of land left for the Tepairs ot
east from Gloucester, in the Eastern division of the the church, now produce £5 yearly. The Plumbe charity,
county, upper division of Slaughter hundred, Stow-on-
producing about £2 109. annually, is distributed in coal
the-Wold petty sessional division, union and county to the poor. Wyck Hill House, the residence of Robert
court district, rural deanery of Stow, archdeaconry 01 Nicholl Byass esq. J.P. is 8 handsome mansion of stone,
Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. The church of pleasantly seated in 8 well-wooded park of about 35
St. Lawrence is a building of stone, in the Norman, acres, near the high Toad to Burford. Mrs. Paul Butler
Early English and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave
is lady of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is
of two bays, north aisle, north porch and a western tower stone brash and loam and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief
with open parapet containing 4 bells: in the chancel crops are wheat, barley and pasture. The area is 1,215
wall is a canopied piscina and there are seven aumbries: acres; I'ateable value, £1,818; the population in 1891 wa.,
the north porch has a Norman doorway: in the chancel 226.
are memorial windows to Paul Butler (d. 1875) and to Wall Letter Box cle8red at 4.15 p.m. week days only
the Rev. Henry Sylvester Richmond, a former rector (d.
1872) and Caroline Eliza, his wife (d. 1892), and there Letters are received through Stow-on-the-Wold; arrive
are five other small stained windows: the church was at 10 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. Bourton-on-the-Water is the.
enlarged in 1833, and in 1879 was Testored and a north nealest money order &; telegraph office, 2 miles distant.
aisle added at a total cost of £800, under the direction
National School (mixed), built, with residence, in 1845,
of Mr. J. E. K. Cutts, architect, of London: there are
sittings for 150 persons. The register dates from the for 50 children; average attendance, 44; Richard Henry
Williams, master

Butler Arnold Lane George, farmer Roberts John, farm bailiff to Mrs. ~L

Byass Robt. Nicholl J.P. Wyck Hill ho McGregor Thomas Henry, farmer &- Rose, Wyck mill

Methuen Rev. Paul Edward O'Bryen assistant overseer Smith William F. farm bailiff to R.

M.A. Rectory Merrifield Thomas, farm bailiff to A. N. Byass esq. J.P. Wyck hill

Hill Edwin, farmer &; shopkeeper H. Butler esg. & Mrs. Paul Butler Wilkins Albert, farmer, Heath Hill frm

nOCKHAMPTON is' a parish and village, 3 miles style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a
north-by-ea!>t from Thornbury terminal station of a
branch of the Midland railway and I4 north from Bristol, western tower with open parapet and pinnacles, containing
in the Southern division of the county, Langley and one bell: the nave was rebuilt in 1861, at a cost of £100,
Swinehead hundred, Thornbury petty sessional division, and the chancel in 1866, at a cost of £500: there are 200
union and county court district, rural deanery of Dursley ~ittings. The register dates from the year 1564. The
and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church living is a rectory, net yearly value £200, including 18
acres of glebe, with residence, in the Irift of the Rev. W.
of St. Oswald is a building of stone, in the Perpend:cuiar U. Coates M.A. vicar of Hill, and held since 1889 by tho

GLOD. 18

274 ROCKHAMPTON. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Rev. William Richmond M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. By a Local Government Board Order, 18,160, dated
A charity left by Mabel Mallebt, in 1547, produces £1 I6s. March 25, 1885, a portion of Sheperdine, in this parish,
8d. yearly, which sum is equally divided between the poor was transferred to Thornbury.
of this place and Hill. Richard Berkeley's charity, dating
from 1540, consists of three cottages and gardens, the Parish Clerk, Jesse Gough.
.rent of which, amounting to £8 yearly, is applied to the
preservation of the fabric of the church. John Cullimore Post Office.-Mrs. Sarah Ann Limbrick, sub-postmistress.
l'sq. of Friars Chester, is lord of the manor. Sir Georgo Letters through Falfield RS.O. arrive at 9.20 a.m.;
Banks Jenkinson bart. of Eastwood Park, Falfield, and same time on sundays; dispatched at 4.20 p.m. on week,
Herbert Jenner-:Fust esq. of Hill Court, Falfield, are the days & 9.30 a.m. on sundays. Postal orders are issued
principal landowners. 'fhe soil is mar! and c1aj"; subsoil, here, but not paid. Falfield is the nearest money order
clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, pasturage and & telegraph otlice, 3 miles distant
fruit. The area is 971 acres; rateable value, '£1,980;
the population in 1891 was-civil, 149; ecclesiastical, 195. Parish School (mixed), built in 1850 & enlarged in 1882,
ior 50 children; average attendance, 29; Miss Minerd,
mistress

Jones Miss, North hill Grove Nicholas, farmer Oldland John, shopk,eeper
Payne'Samuel, farmer
Richmond Rev. William M.A. Re'ctory Grove Thomas, farmer Pilmell Charles, farmer, Court
Pinnell "Yilliam, yeoman, Brickhouse
Barber Hannah (Miss), farmer Gwyther Edwin Law;rence, farmer Rickards Gilbert William Joseph, car-

Bouchier James, farmer Hart George, farmer penter, Newton
Smith Henry, shopkeeper
Childs James, farmer Hill Thomas, farmer, Newton Wetmore Hannah (Mrs.),yeomn.Newtn
Worden Ann (Mrs.), farmer
Cripps Arthur Chas. market gardener Iud Daniel, comme'rcial traveller

Cornock Hannah (Miss), frmr.Newton Leonard John, farmer, Nup down

Ford Oharles, fa,rmer Limbrick John, mason

Ford Henry, farmer Moxon Geo. farmer, Mount Pleasant

RODBOROUGH is a parish, on the high road from scenery, including the Forest of Dean and adjoining hill~
Minchinhampton to Stroud, near the Thames and Severn and the Welsh mountains, to a distance of 50 miles; upon
the summit of the hill, and on the site of the old fort, is
junction canal, half a mile south from Stroud station on a handsome castellated residence called Fort St. George,
the Great "Yestern railway and 12 from Gloucester, in the erected about 1860, and now the seab of Marmaduke Bell
Mid division of the county, Longtree hundred, Stroud esq.
petty sessional division, union and county court district,
Sexton, Henry Ellis.
and in the rural deanery of Sbonehous'B and archdeaconry
and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Mary Mag- Post & M. O. 0., 8. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,

dalen, anciently called" Holy Trinity," rebuilt, with the Bath road. Josaph Alfd.Selwood, sub-postmaster. Let-
exception of the tower, in 1842, is a building of stone, ters arrive from Stroud & are delivered at 7 a.m. &; 2
p.m.; dispatched, 10.30 a.m. & 5.45 & 8,45 p.m. week
chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and days only. Stroud, 2 miles distant, is the nearest tele-
consists of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south and graph office
west porches and an embattled western tower of Norman Post Office, The Butts.-Henry Ellis, sub-postmaster.
Letters through Stroud arrive at 7.5 a.m. & at 2-45
date, with pinnacles, and containing a clock and one bell: p.m.; dispatched at 10.45 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. Postal
the Jacobean pulpit was the- gift of Jasper Estcourte esq. orders are issued here, but not paid. Stroud is the
nea.rest telegraph office
ob. 1624, and bears his armS: in 1895-6 the church was Post Office, Butter row.-John Palmer, sub-postmaster.
restored, a chancel, south aisle, vestry and organ chamber Box cleared at 4 & 8.30 p.m. week days only. Postal
built, and the whole re-seated, under the direction of Mr. orders are issued here, but not paid. Bowbridgoe is the
nearest money order & telegraph office, 1 mile distant
Arthur S. CDoke, of Pagan Hill, Stroud, at a cost of Wall Letter Boxes, Golden Cross, cleared at 10.35 a.m. &;
£2,200: the church was at one time a chantry of the 5.55 & 8.45 p.m.; Houndscroft, 5.10 p.m.; King's
priory of Minchinhampton: there are about 450 sittings. Court, 5.20 p.m.; Spillman's road, ID.55 a.J:ll. & 5.55 &
The register dates from the year 1692. The living is a 8'45 p.m. week dayS' only; Rooksmoor, 3.45 & 8,40
rectory, net yearly value £240, including 30 acres of
p.m. ; sunday, 5,4° p.m.
'glebe, with residence and £50 yearly derived for a lecture-
ship, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held SCHOOLS.
since 18g6 by the Rev. WaIter Waring M.A. of Queens'
· College, Cambridge; the endowment arises chiefly from A School Board of 5 mem.bers was formed June 25, 1878;

: land given previous to the'Reformation by Hugh de Rod- F. Winterbotham, 5 Rowcroft, Stroud, clerk to the
borough and Bridget de Brimscombe, ad Sacra Cele-
· loranda. Here are Congregational and Primitive Methodist board; George Chandler, attendance officer
Bc-ard, Kingscourt, built in 1837, for 160 children; aver-
· chapels. .A sum of £5 is distributed yearly to the poor
in bread. In the parish are some woollen cloth mill" and age attendance, 126; John William May, master
Butterrow (mixed & infants), built, with master's resi-
dye works. Bownham House is the s-eat of Richard Owen
· P. Paddison esq. Sir William Marling bart. of Stanley dence adjoining, in 1880, for 170 children; average at-
- Park, is lord of the manor and chief landowner; there are
. also several small landowners. The soil is sand and stone; tendance, 140; William Dawkins, master
Endowed, erected in the 18th century &; rebuilt in 1885,
subsoil, oolite rock. The chief crops are wheat and pas-
- ture. The area is 1,272 acres; rateable value, £12,859; for 200 children; average atteudance, 194; there is a
house for the master; William Geo. Browne, master;
the population in 1891 was 2,955 civil, 2,554 ecclesiastical. Mrs. E. M. Browne, girls' mistress; it is partly sup-
RODBOROUGBi HILL commands a. fine and extensive parted by an endowment derived from £250, left by
Henry King in 1699; £20 by Nathaniel Clissold; £roo
vieW' of undulating hills and dales, and partial views of by Thomas Halliday; £60 by Nathaniel Beard & smaller
th~ Slad, Painswick and Nailsworth vales, with the whale sums from others
of the vale of Rodborough down to the river Severn in the
foreground, a distance of 8 miles to the nearest point;

,Dn the other side of the Severn is seen a large tract of

RODBOROUGH. Hastings Rev. 'Henry George M.A. Newman Samuel John, Rooksmoor .

. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. (Congregational), The Manse Paddison Richard Owen P. Bownham

.,Apperley Alfred J.P.Rodborough court Rewett Jarnes Pickering, Gwydyr ho. house (letters through Brimscombe)

-:Banks Charles Henry, Greystone lodge, Ba.th road Payne George Frederick

Bath road Riggins Mrs. Dudbridge hill Powell George E. Wallbridge house

-Eell Marmaduke, Fort :St. George Hobbs Mrs. The Pleasaunce Ralph Benj. LL.D. Rodborough manor

-:Bennet~ Charles, Hillside, Bath road Hooper Alfred, Devonia Rowell John, Lynfield vil.Frome Pk.rd

-Bidlake Alfred Danvers, Churcbfield Hooper Mrs. Fir Tree house Scriven George, Frome Park road

'Bidlake DanveTs, Bua.rton Rooper Samuel ·Ohew, Albion villa Shipway Geo. I Fairview viI. Bath rd

Brimmel William Henry, Mowmead ho Hooper Wm. John, Ashdon ho. Bath rd Sims Mrs. Elm villa, 'Bath road

Buckler Henry Cecil, The Cedars Howard Francis Augustus, Beech eot Smith Charles William, Bath road

Butcher Samuel William, Highfield Humpidge Hy. Theodore, Frome Pk.rd Smith James, Woodhouse

:Butt Samuel, Frome hall Humpidge J ames D. Frome Park road Smith Reginald Cecil, Ulsterville

Chew:Mrs. 2 West grove, Bath road Hunt Stephen Everard, I Park view, Smith Richard Henry, Kestrah

Clark Frederick, Braeside Bath road Stephens Josiah B. Belle vue

Dagget.t Frederick, Newl'aIIds, Bath I'd Jefiries Samuel, Kensington villa Stotesbury Richard Henry, Cavendish

Drew Edward, 2 Park view, 'Bath road Jones Joseph, Mount Vernon villa, Bath road

Evers-lSwiudell Wilfrid, aJownbam grog Kimmins James ,Charles Clegg J.P. Ta'akle Henry Charles, Rooksmoor .

Face Frank, I Cedar villas, Bath rd Lightpill house Thomas Mrs>. Churehfield

Gardom Edwin Theodore, Hillgrove ho Lawson Vincent Alex.St. Ringer's crt Townsend Richard,2Cedar viIs. Bath I'd

George John Lane, The Fern Newns James Nathaniel C. The Ferns, Waring Rev. WaIter M.A. Rectory

Hall Mril. Church place Bath road Whiteman GQOrge

DIRECTORY.] GLO UCESTERSHIRE. RODMARTON. .(:.'7J"

COMMERCIAL. Jenkins Wm. beer retailer &; shopkeepr Thomson James, registrar of births &;

Apperly Fras. shopkeeper, King's cuurt Jenrrings Joseph, insurance agt.Bath I'd deaths for RodboI'ough sub-district

Barradine' Edwin, beer retailer, Spill- Lewis & Sons, builders, Bath road Turner Oharles Tiley, butcher,Bath rd

man's pitch Lusty John Clement, tailor, Bath road Walker Elizabeth (Mrs.). beer retailer

Baxter Danl. com. agent, Fort William Maila .lames, beer !'etailer, Bath road. Wabb James, Anchor P.H

Beck Dorcas (Mrs.), aparts. The Butts Marment Henry,shoe ma.Spillman's I'd Whale Andrew, beer ret. King's court

Bennett James Peter, bootma. Bath I'd Melsome Robert Kilminster, farmer Whiting Giles, farmer

Chandler George', collector of rates, Nea:e Isaac &; S01l8, machinery dea!rs. Whiting Henry, baker, The Butts

assistant overseer & clerk to parish Rooksmoor vTilkins Charle's, commercial travellel'

council Neale John William. Old Fle-ece P.H. Woodman Charles, haulier

Chandler Walter,frmr. Woodhouse frm Rooksmoor (~Drs.), beer retailer. BUTTER ROW.
Chapman Wm. beer retailer,King's crt Niblett Rhoda

Close Thomas. cowkeeper King's court Bailey Stanley G

Cooper Benjamin, woollen agent. 2 The Noble Duncan, commercial traveller, Williams Misses

Limes, Bath TOad Bath road COMMEnCIAL.

Cox Frederick William, tailors' cutter. Oates John, Golden Fleeoo P.H BeaviS' .Albert Edward, builder ~ con1

Bath road Orchard & Peer. builders &; contractors, tractor; estimates for repairs free

Critchley Thos. Albt.herbalist, Bath Id painters & plumbers; & at Stroud Haynes Edward, tobacconist

Dann Hy. O. com. travllr. Bannut trees Orchard Roland. insurance superin- Haynes Emma (Miss), dress maker

Edmonds Alfred, Bear inn. seeds- tendent, Bath road Hayne;y Harriett.1gnew(Mrs.),dress ma

man & florist; good pleasure Pearce 1Yillium, greengrocer. Bath rd Hooper Thomas, ghopkeeper

grounds; picnic parties catered for Poole Frank, dyer &; cleaner, Bath rd rnd Alfred, beer retailer

Empress (The) Patent Chair Co. (Hol- Ralph Benjamin LL.D. young gentle- Kirby Mary Aun (Miss). shopk€eper

borow & Pace, proprs.). Dudbridge men's collegiate school, ICraigmore Mortimer Joseph. Woolpack P.ll

Gardiner Robe,rt, baker college. Rodborough manor Palmer John, shopkeeper, Post office

Gazard John, dairyman. Bath road Restaa Edwd. Herbt. baker. The Butts Poole; John, baker

Gerard Wm. Midland Rlwy. goods> agt Roberts Frederick, carpenter, Bath I'd Sutton Clara. Annie (Miss). dress makr

Gorton William, nurseryman,Rooksmr Seeley Jas. teacher of dancing, Bath rd LIGHTPTLL.
GristJohn & Co. shoddy manufacturers, Selwood Joseph .Alfred. baker &. grocer,

Rooksmoor mills Post office, Bath road Daniels Joseph. Fern cottage

Halliday J es se, shopkeeper Shaylor '& Son, builder~ Cox Stephen, builder &; monumental

Haynes William, shoo maker Smith James, coal factor, Woodhouse sculptor

Heavens David, beer retailer Spil:ard Albt.beer ret.Bowbridg-e walk Daniels Thos. Henry &; Jsph. engineers

Heavens John, tailor. Bath road Stephens Thomas, Railway inn &; shop- Kimmins, Drew &; Co. Limited, millers

Howard & Powell.cloth manufacture'l's. keeper, Dudbridge (water & !<team)

Wallbridge mills Strachan & Co. Limited, woollen cloth Roberts, Jowlings &; Co. woollen cloth

Howlett Charles, shopkpr.Kin~'s court manufacturers; & at IStroud manufacturer!!

.Tames Edwin Thos. frmr.Little Britain Summers ATthur, dairyman (letters Smith ,samuel R.ichard, Fleece inn

James Frederick John, farmer, Upper throug-h Brimscombe) Williams Albert Edward, beer retailer

. Stringers farm Thursfield Eliza (Mrs.). shopkeeper &; wheelwright

RODMARTON is a parish and village, about I mile HAZLETON. 'the gTeater part of which is in this parish,
north of the Bath and Cirencester road, bounded on the contains only one farmhouse, the property of the ~lisse~

ilast and south by the county of Wilts, and has a station George, of Cherington Park. Here was once a Benedictine

at Culkerton, 11 miles south-west from the village. on monastery, founded in the reign of Stephen by Reginald

the branch of the Great Western railway from Kemble de St. Valery, or Waleric, lord of Hazleton manor in II40;

Junction; it is 4 north-east from Tetbury, 6 south-west the community, owing to the scarcity of water in this

from Cirencester and 95! from [.ondon, in the Eastern place. removed tQ Tetbury, and from thence in 1179 to

division of the county, Longtree hundred, Cirencester Kingswood. Wilts, where they continued until the Dissolu-

petty sessional division, nnion and county court district, tion.

rural deanery of Stonehouse and archdeaconry and dio-
cese of Gloucester. The village is supplied with water CULKERTON is a hamlet, 11 miles south-west.

from a spring at J ackameuts Bottom, in this parish; the T.A.RLTON is a hamlet about 11 miles north-east, partly
in this' and partly in Coates parish. Tarlton chapel is a
water is pumped into a tank at Tarlton and brouj'ht in small and plain but ancient 'building of stone, consisting
pipes; the works were erected in 1894, at a cost of ,[,1,500, of chancel and nave; it was long disused, but was re.
by Michael Biddulph esq. M.P. The church of St. Pecer st-ored in I875 at the sole cost of the late ~fiS3' Gordon,
is an :mcit!nt buildin~ of stone in the Early English style, of Kemble. Wilts; the chancel arch. of Norman date, is
~onsistiTlS; of chancel, nave, north aisle, .south chapel 'be- enric-hed with zigzag mouldings: services are held here
longing to the Cox family, 9luth porch and a western every Sunday alternately by the rectors of Rodmanon
tower. with .spire, containing 3 bells: there are several and Coates: there are 100 sittings. There is also a 'Wes-
monuments. and in the chancel a brass in excellent pre- leyan chapel, erected about. 1827, and rebuilt in 1884.
SErvation to John Edward, 1IJ lawyer, lord of the manor, with ISO Slittings.

llnd patron of the living. ob. 1461: the church was re- Post &; Parcel Office. John Wells. sub-postmaster. Let-
ters through Oirencester arrive at 8.55 a.m.; dispatched
st-ored and re-seated in 186", at 8 cost of £330. and
llgain restored in 1884 at 8 cost of £520, when 8 at 5 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued here.
portion of the spire WM rebuilt. and the interior reno-
vded under tbe direction of Messrs. Waller and Son,
architects. of Gloucester: there are sittings for 210 per- but not paid. Caates is the nearest money order &
sons. The register dates from the year 1605. The living telegraph office. 4 miles' distant
h a rectory, net yearly value from 534 acres of R'lebe Letters for Culkerton through Tetbury, which is the
about [,I20, with residence, iQ. the gift of Michael Biddulph nearest money order &; telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m
esq. M.P. and held since 1897 by the Rev. Arlhnr Butt 'Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8 a.m. &; 5.25 p.m. week days
M.A. of Balliol College. Oxford. A charity of [,3 15s. left only
by the Cox family. is applied to educational purposes. Wall Letter Box, Tarlton, cleared at 5.30 p.m. week days
Rodmarton, evidently a Roman ,station, was probably an only .

advanced post from Cirencester; a tesselated pavement National School (mixed). "built in 1854. &; enlarged in 1892.
was discovered here in 1636, also some brass coins of for 70 children; average attendance, 57; William Henry
Antoninus, A.D. 138-61, and Valentinian. ,A..D. 364-7; Marsh. master
the circumstances of the discovery are recorded in the Infants' School, Tarlton, built in 1884, for 22 children;
register of the parish. Michael Biddulph esq. M.P. is average attendance, 15; Mrs. Mary Brown, mistres9
lord of the manor and chief land6wner. The soil is liR'bt
loam; subsoil, principally oolite. The chief crops a.re Railway Station, Culkerton, ThomaS' Richards, station
wheat. barley and oats. The area is 3,879 acres; rateable master

value. [,2,276; the population in 1891 was 4I2.. Carriers from Tarlton to Cirencestel'.-George Bond. mono

Parish Clerk, John Wells. wed. fri. & sat. &; Robert Blowin. mono fri. & sat

RODMARTON. •

Limbrick Thomas, farm bailiff to W. Rowland Hubert, poultry dealer

Blnckwell esq. Hazleton farm Weils John, carpenter, Post office

Butt Rev. Arthur M.A. Rectory Marsh William Henry. assistant over- T.ARLTON.

Baldwin Geo. blacksmith &; shopkeepr seer &; clerk to parish council

Habgood Edward, baker Pineger Fredk. Jas. frmr. Manor ho Blowing Robert. cattier &; "Mopkeeper

GLOV. 18$

276 RODMARTON. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Bond George, carrier Ratcliffe Henry, farmer Coleman Richard, shopkeeper
Brown Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Fowler Samuel, farmer Tarlton Water Works (Richard Bay- Kilmister John, horse dealer
Messenger Thomas', blacksmith Lewis Thomas, jun. farmer, The Holi
Palmer John, blacksmith lis, manager)
Young Joseph, farm bailiff to Mr.
Ratclifie Charles, farmer CULKERTON.
T. Olark

Day Miss

ROEL (or Rowell), formerly extra-parochial, is now a a mansion of much greater pretensions, had a chapel at-
parish and village, 3 miles north-west from Notgrove tached to it, of which portions still remain. Henry Dent
station on the Cheltenham and Banbury branch of the Brocklehurst esq. of Acomb Hall, Yorks, is lord of the
Great Western railway, II east from Cheltenham and 4 manor and landowner. The s'Oll is stone brash; subsoil.
south-east from Winchcomb, in the Northern division uf stone. The chief crops are wheat, roots and barley. The
the county, lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, area is 1,640 acres; rateable value, £354; the population
'Winchcomb petty sessional division, union and county in 1891 waSl 26.
court district. There is no church or sc-hool, the whole
population consisting only of the inhabitants of 7 houses, Letters through Winchcomb R.S.O. which is the nearest
who attend the church at Bawling. The farmhouse, once money order & telegraph office

Flowers Fredk. farm bailiff to H. D. Brocklehurst esq

RUARDEAN is a village and parish, on the Hereford· Power, of HiU Court, Walford; Harry McCalmont esq•

..,hire border, and bounded on the west by the river Wye, of Bishopwood House; Thomas Bennett Brain esq. of

2! miles south-east iirom Kerne Bridge station, Oft the Euroclydon, Hope M'llnsell, Ross, and Mr. Joseph Thomp-

Hereford, Ross and Newport section of the Great son, are the principal landowners. The soil is sandy;.

Western railway, 6 south from Ross, 7! north-east from wbsoiI, red s'llndstone. The chief crops are wheat and

Newnham, 9 north-east from Monmouth and 6 north- harley. The acreage is 1,630; rateable value £4,005;,
east from CDleford, in the Forest of Dean division of the population in 1891 was' 1,285 in the civil, and 1,02a

the county, hundred of St. Briavels, petty sessional in the ecclesiastical parish.

division of Newnham, county court district and union of By Local Government Board Order 14,628, Mar. 24,

Ross, rU'1"al deanery of South Forest. and archdeac<>nry 1884, a detached part of Newland was transferred to

and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. John the Ruardean for civil purposes.

Baptist, built in IIII, is an -edifice of stone in the Norman Parish C'lerk, John Harper.
and later sty~es, consisting of chancel, nave of th~ee
bays, s~uth aIsle! south porch .a~d a western tower WIt'~ Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuitv & Insurance Office.-
lofty spIre a~d p1Dn~es, controlling.a clock and 6 bells.
the west wJ?dow d.Is~lays much nch tracery and t~e Mrs. Bannah Lewis, sub-post~istresg.. Letter~ from
chancel retarns a plscrna: the church was restored rn Michaeldean (Railway Sub-Office) are delivered at 7.30
1873, 1890 and 1891, at a total cost of £2,970: and now a.m. & 12.45 p.m.; dispatched, 4.35 & 6.15 p.ro.
affords sittings for 500 persons. The Il'egister dates from Telegraph office at Drybrook 2 miles diS'tant

'
Wall Letter Boxes.

the year 1540. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Ruardean, Woodside, cleared at 5.45 p.m

£.140, including 3 acres of glebe, with residence, in the The PIuds, cleared at 4.40 p.m

gift of the Bishop of Gloucester and held since 1894 by Crooked Lane cleared at 4.40 & 6.30 p.m

the Rev. Edward Parnell LL.B. of the University of Morse Lane cleared at 4.45 & 6.35 p.m

London. There are Congregational and Bible Christian Brierley cleared 5.20 p.m

chapels. There are charities of £IB 10S. in this poo-ish, National School (mixed), built in 1872 for 247 children;

derived fmm land and houses left by various persons, average attendance, 151 boys &; girls, & 47 infants;

and applied! to the repairs. of the church, education, and Lawrence William High, master; Miss Matilda Painter.

the relief of poor widowS'. Col. Vaughan is lord of the infants' mistress

man'or, rand the trusteeS' of Captain Kingsmill Manley Carrier to Ross.-Mrs. Eliza Chamberlain, every thurs

Arkell Horatio George Samuel, farmer & butcher I Martell Edgar, farmer, Marstow

Brain Cornelius Gibbs Richard, blacksmith Mason Elizabeth (Mrs.), mason k

Clayton Rear-Admiral Francis Star- Gaater Elizabeth (Mrs.), Angel P.H quarry owner

kie, Wyelands Griffiths Edward, farmer, The Meend Matthews James, butcher

Evans James, The Laurels Griffiths James, farmer, Barrel hill Mills Henry William M.R.C.S.Eng...

McCalmont Harry, Bishopwood house Hale Isaac, Malt Shovel inn L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & surgeon

Mills Henry William. Holmes Thomas, painter & certifying factory surgeon

Parnell Rev. Edward LL.B.Lond. Horlick Peter, rope maker Onions Albert, Prudentia.l insur. agnt.

Rectory Hyetlt Henry, farmer Palmer William, boot maker

COMMERCIAL. Jones Burdock Thomas, farmer Philpots John, farmer

Baldwin Ivo William, assistant over- Jones Henry, agent to the London, Seymour Edmund, farmer

seer & poor rate collector Edinburgh & Glasgow Assurance Thompson Edward, malts1er &>

Baldwin Thomas, Rose in Hand P.H CD. Limited brewer, Hillside

fJennett Richard, builder Kear James, stone mason Thompson Joseph, farmer & land'
owner, Warfield farm
Chivers Joseph, grocer &. baker &; King Allbert James, Bell inn

agent for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, Knight Frederick, shopkeeper Thompson Lydia (Mrs.), shopkeeper

wine & spirit merchants Lewis Hannah (Mrs.), grocer & dra- Webb Richard, butcher & shopkeeper

Dawe William, farmer, Park farm per, Post office Wilce George, haulier

Fisher Yary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Little William, New inn Wilce Lydia (Mrs.), beer retailer

RUDFORD is' a village and parish, on the road from register dates from the year 1729. The living is It
Gloucester to Newent and on the riv~r Leadon, with 8 Il'ectory, net yearly value £.230, including 5 acres of glebe,
~tion at Barber's B.ridge on the Gloucester 'Snd Led· with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of

bury section of the Great Western railway and is d GlouceS'1:er, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Charles

miles north-west from Gloucester and 4! south-east from Frederick Thomas. Here is a charity producing about

Newent, in the Northern division of the county, Botloe £.5 a year, and one for Highleadon of the value of £1.

hundred, petty sessional division of Gloucester, Newent At Barber's Bridge iSl an ancient stone cross bearing the:

union and! county court district and in the rural deanery following inscription, c, These stones, taken from the

of North Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou· ancient walls of the city of Gloucester, mark the burial
cester. The church of St. Mary is -a building of stone, place of the Welsh of Lord Herbert's force, who fell in

in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave and an the combined attack by Sir William WaIler and OlL
open turret on the western gable, containing one bell: Massey on their ~trenchments at Highnam, March 24th,
there are several good circular-headed windows and the 1643." The trustees of the late William Philip Price esq.
chancel 'llrch and south doorway are much enriched: M.P. aJ'e the lords of the manor of Rudford and solt;
the cloth covering the communion table is' dated 1616, landowners. The soil is heavy red mMI; subsoil, sand,.

and thab used to cover the elements at the administration stone and clay. The land in this parish is 'llpplied in
of the sacrament is of fine damask, and marked in about equal proportions to arable and pasture. Fruit

needlework "Rudford, 1736": at the time of repairing of excellent quality for making cider and perry is grown

the chancel and making a vault therein, a great number here. The meadows on the banks of the Leadon are

of human skeletons were found there, disposed pro· subject to frequent inundations and are vetry fertile,
miscuously: the east window is stained: the organ was producing excellent crops. The area, including Highleadon

the gift ()f the late W. P. Price esq. M.P. of Tibberton hamlet, is 1,154 scres; rateable value of Rudford.

Court (d. :1891): the nave wag restored in 1:869-7°. at a £'944; of Highleadon, £'1,013; the populallion in 189:1

cost of npwards of £200: there Bre 130 sittings. The. waS' 125, of whom 91 are in Highleadon.

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. SA~T BR!..!VELS. 271

IDGHLEADON is a hamlet. and township of this distant. Letters fOT Highleadon via Newent arrive lilt-
parish, but in the hundred of Dudstone and King's
Barton; it lies 5 miles north-west from the Cross at 7.30 a.m. WaU Letters Boxes, Highleadon, cleared at
Gloucester, in the Fores,t of Dean division of the County.
Hm-e is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1864. George Viner 7 p.m.; Salcombe Farm, Rudford, at 6.10 p.m. week
Ellis esq. is lord of the manor and the trustees of the
late O. Shepherd esq. and Capt. Hobert Alfred Loraine- days only
G-rewSl are the chief landowners.
The children of this pbce attend the schools at Tibbertol1
Sexton, CharleSl Lander. & Highnam

Letters received from Gloucester 'arrive at 7.30 a.m. Railway Station, Barber's Bridge (Gloucester & Led..
GlouceS'ter & Newent are the nearest money order
{)fficeSi &; Hartpnxy, telegraph office, about 2 mile!! bury branch line), .!nhur ),Iorris, station master

Carriers to Gloucester (passing through Rudford & re·
turning same day).-l<luck, from Taynton, wed. &;
sat.; Davis, from Newent, daily

RUDFORD. Goodall Frederick, farmer, Wnitehall HIGHLEADON.

Langford Thomas, farmer,fruit grower But.cher Samuel, Vine cottage

Thomas Rev. Chas. Frederick.Rectory &; cider & perry manufacturer Phelps Mrs. .Rose villa

COMMERCIAL. Need James, haulier Warder Mrs

State William, gamekeeper to the Cloke Christopher Venning, farmer

Butler Edwin.farmer & assistant over- trustees of the late W. P. Price esq. Hardmck John, farmer, HigWeadon

seer for Rudford, Highleadon &Tib- Tuihi:l Henry, farmer, Whitelands Court farm

herton, Salcombe farm Welsh I?rederick, tai:Or Holford George, mason

Ford Daniel, farmer, Barber's bridge Holford Philip, farmer, Green farm

SAINT BRIAVELS is a viI:age and parish, bounded keeping back the incursions of the Welsh, is now in pari
on the west by the river Wye, which here divides· the ruinous; the keep, built in the reign of Henry I. fell
county from Monmouths'bire, and on the road from Cole- from age in r752; the existing buildings, originall)'
ford to Ohepstow, 4 miles west-by-south from Park End erected in 1276, include the entrance towers, which are
station on the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge rail- still entire, as well .as the kitchen and the chapel or
way, and 2 east from Bigswear station on the Chepstow oratory, erected in 13°0; the ora,tory has undergone
and Monmouth se<:tion and 7 north-west from Lydney considerable repairs, and is occasionally used as a court
station, on the South Wales section of the Great West- room for the manor; it is now the residence of William
ern railway, 8 south-by-east from Monmouth, 8 north Henry Hinton esq. Bigsweir House is the residence of
from Chepstow and 5 south from Coleford, in the Forest GMrge Douglas Willoughby Rooke esq. The Crown i9
of Dean division of the county, Saint Briavels hundred, lord of the manor_The principal landowners are Henry
petty sessional division of Coleford, union and county Ellis Collins esq. of Clearwell Court; G. Douglas
court district of Chepstow, rural deanery of South Willoughby Rooke e8q. Fredk. Martin esq. of LindorSl and
Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Gl'Oucester, the FronciSl Lamb esq. The soil is light and loamy;
parish of St. Briavels' is included in the Forest. of Dean. subsoil, limestone and sandstone. The chief crops
The church of St. Mary is a oruciform building of s'ton('\. are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The I3rea. including
in the Norman, Early English and later styles. consisting Hudnalls', is 4.796 acres; To3teable value. £5,764; the
of chancel, transept, nave of five bays, with a clerestory population in r891 was r.Il2 in the civil, and 580 in th~
on the south side, aisles, and an embattled tower. with ecclesiastical parislh.
-pinnacles, c()ntaining 8 bells and a clock: in the chancel
are some remainsl of a monument, with recumbent Sexton, William PricQ, jun.
effigies, to William ·Warren, 1573, aud Mariana (Catch-
may), his wife: the tower, which originally stood cat the Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0 .• S. B., Express De:ivery.
intersection of the nave and transepts was rebuilt in 1830
on the south side: the chUtrCh was restored in 186r at a Parcel Post & .Annuity & Insurance Office. William
cost of £2,ooo,and again in r882 at a cost of £r,ooo : there James Edward Perkins, sub-postmaster. Letters from
Coleford arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6.10 p.m ,
are sittings for 500 persons. The register dates from the
year r660. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value SCHOOLS.
£133, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter
of Hereford, and held since 1867 by the Rev. William A School Board of 5 members was formed Novembetr
Taprell AlIen M..!. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. There is
24, 1874, for the united district of St. Briavels &;
an iron mission church at Mork. Here are two Congre. Hewe:sfl.eld; Thomas Ree~ Steel, Woolaston, clerk to
gational chapels and a 1Vesleyan chapel. The charities the board; Joseph Grimei Kear, attendance officer

are of £'16 yearly value, derived fr«ml charges on land Brood, Brockweir (mixed), for 80 children; averag6
and money in the funds, principally distributed in money_ attendance, 58; Miss Clissold, mistress
The Reading- Room and Library, founded in r854 by the
late O. L. Denton esq. contains a library of about r,roo Church of England (mixed & infants), built in 1872, for
volumes'. St. Briavels castle, built for the purpose of
165 children; I3verage attendance, mixed, 90, infants,
38; there is a residence for the mast-er; William
Cockram. master; Miss Ad a, Mary Virgin, girls' mis~
tress'; Miss Mary Coles, infants' mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Sagar Arthur Hughes John Gywn, shopkeeper

(Marked thus * should be addressed Sainsbury Mrs Hughes Lawrence, beer retailer

Brockweir, Chepstow, Mon.) *Skarrow Captain Arthur George Wal-'·.vJ:1ulin George, mason, The Common

*Aisbitt Matthew \V. The Common ker, Brockweir house ulin Henry. carpenter
• AlIen Mrs. n Retiro
Stephens Chas. L.R.C.S.I. Humphreys ulin !saac, stone mason

• AlIen Rev. Wm. Taprell M.A.Vicarage lodge Hulin Mary.A.nn(Mrs.),fnnr.The Knoll

*.bton Rev. John, The Common Whitley William Q.C. Wyeholm Hunt Timothy, farmer

Bailey Bryan, The Florence Wilmot George Herdley, The Lodge *Hunt William, farmer

Batten Mrs. The Woodlands COMMERCIAL. *Ivins Henry, saddler

Bellyse Frederick, The Cherries *Beach George, farmer James John, tax collector,Lower fence

Bullock Thomas Bird Job, farmer, Cinderhi:I James Matthew,builder & whee:wright

Cruttenden Mrs. Bintfield Bracher Elizabeth (Miss),dres5 maker, James Wm. farmer, Cherry Tree fnn

Dodd Jobn, Tivesall Fern cottage Johnson George, farmer

Donnery Frederick, The Common Buckett Edwin George, farmer Jones Edward, farmer, Beane farm

Eyre Col. Gervas ,selwyn, Hudnalls ho Burley Henry Thomas, boot & shoe Jones Evan Thomas, frmr.St.Hogganst

Garret John DunneH, Woodroyd maker &; dealer • Kear Annie (Mrs.), George inn; good

Griffiths John, Closeturf Churchill Wm. crpntr. The Common stabling accommodation

*Hall ,Woodspring Cox James, mason, The Common Kear J'sph.Grimes,school attend. officr

Hinton William Henry, The Castle Cox John, mason, The Common Keen Wm. Bennett, farmer,Stowe fm

Hughes Waiter WiI:iam, Upfield Davies Edmund, boot &; shoe maker Men's Friendly Society (William Cock·

Jones Philip Batford• .A.ylesmore house Davis Aaron, farmer, Hudnalls farm ram, sec)

Lems Owen, Owenden villa Davis Henry, mason *Mi~es Henry, farmer

Lindsell John, Levs hill Davis John, farmer, Lindons Miles Levi, farmer, Wilsbury
Martin Frederick, •Lindors
Day Henry, farmer, New House farm Miles Sarah (Mrs.). lime burner

*Naish Joseph, The Common. Duffield Paul, farmer, Bearse farm Moore &; Rossiter, drapers, grocers &;

.Newberry Joseph Vicars, Orielton Edwards Philip, farm bailiff to W. W. general warehousemen

*Norrup Lars Peter, Sylvia Hughes esq. Uphill farm Morris Samuel, butcher &; cattle

*Parker Orfenr George, Hill house Exton Archer, farmer, Rodmore farm dealer, .Ashley house

Prosser Edward Camplan,The Orchard Ferneyhough John, farmer. Nicholas William Henry, Grist mill,

1lo0ke Geo. Douglas Willoughby J.P. Gatfield 'Yil:iam, painter &; glazier Rodmore mill

Bigsweir house Gray Edward, carpenter *Page Charles, carpenter,The Commn

2~8 SAINT 'Bin.!nLS. GLOrCE5TERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

:Page Godfrey William, butcher Shears William, farmer, Harthill frm Thomas John, farmer, Cold harbour

Page WilIiam, farmer Stephem Charles L.R.C.S.I. surgeon, 'l'ownsend James, farmer, Mork frm
~erkinfl Wi~liam James Edward,
Humphreys lodge Whittington John, carpenter, Mork
grocer & draper, Post office
St. Briavels Cricket Club (Wm. Cock- Whittington William, grocer & corn
:price William, surveyor of highways &:
ram, hon. treas. & sec) dealer, Cold harbour
assistant overseer, Myrtle villa
Stevens ..Alfred, shopkeeper WilliamS'Jn. gardnr. to F. Martin esq
lReading Room &, Library (Mrs. Jane
Moulton, librarian) Stevens ..Alfred John, tailor Williams Sally(Mrs.),frmr.TheCommn

*Robinson Levi, farmer, Mork Sutton Oak Manure Co. (J. G. Williams William, cattle dealer &i
ROBsiter John Frank, grocer, draper
Rossiter, agent) farmer, Churchyard farm
& general warehouseman
Taylor Edwin, blacksmith Wintour ..Alfd. VVm. farmer, High grp

Taylor William, b:acksmith Wintour Sydney Smart,frmr.Dunkilns

SAINT GEORGE is a long straggling parish on the division of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bristol.

London road and within the Parliamentary borough of In 1893 the whole of this parish west of the Clifton Ex·

Bristol as extended under the" Redistribution of Seats tension Railway was formed into a. separate ecclesias-

Act, 1885," including Two Mile Hill, Upper and Lower tical district called .All Hallows, Easton, which relieves

Easton, Whitehall, Barton Hill, Russell Town, Redhill St. Mark's of 5,500 of its population. St. Mark's church,

and Crew's Hole, and is bounded on the south by the Lower Easton, is an edifice of stone in the Norman style,

river Avon, extending I! miles east from Bristol, in Bar- consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower contain.

ton Regis hundred, Lawford's Gate petty sessional divi- ing 2 bells: all the windows are stained, and there are

sion. Barton Regis union, Bristol county court district, sittings for about 420 persons, of which 348 are free.

city division of the rural deanery of Bristol, and in the The register d,ates from the year 1848. The living is

archdeaconry and diocese of Bristol. a vicarage, net yearly value £3°0, with residence, in the

The parish was governed by a Local Board from Mar. gift of the Bishop of Bristol, and held since 1873 by the

14, 1873, but under the provisions of the .Act of 1894 Rev. Thos. Henry Barnett K.C.L. Greenbank Cemetery.

(56 and 57 Vict. c. 73) an Urban District Council of 18 belongi'lg to St. Philip's, Bristol, is here. The popula.

members has been established. tion in 1881 was 8,695, and in 1891 was 9,614.

The church of St. George, destroyed by fire in Decem- Sextoness, :Mrs. Treble.
ber, 1878, was re-opened in 1880, and is a building of

stone in the Gothic style of the 14th century, consisting Post, M. O. &:. T. 0., T. M. 0., S. R, Express Delivery.

of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, south Parcel Post &; Annuity & Insurance Office, Saint George.

porch, and a western tower containing 6 bells and a clock -Thomas Taylor Smith, sub-postmaster. Letters

added in 1883, at a cost of £130, raised by subscription: through Bristol arrive at 6, 9 & 11.15 a.m. & 2.30 &;

the church was originally built in 1756 and had been re- 5.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10.15 a.m. &; I. IS, 5. 8.15 &;

built in 1846: there are eittings for 600 persons. The It p.m.; sundays. 5 &; XI p.m

register of baptisms and burials dates from 1759; mar- Wall Letter Boxes. Crew's Hole, cleared at 7.30 a.m. &i

riages from 1756. The living is a vicarage, yearly value 3.45 &; 7.30 p.m.; Nag's Head hill. cleared at 7.30

£600. including 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the a.m. & 3.45 & 7.15 p.m.; on sundays, 7.30 a.m.; Bell

gift of and held since 1873 by the Rev. ..Alvery R~chard Hill road, 8,30 a.m. & 3.45 p.m
Dodsley Flamsteed M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The Post & M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance Office,

Congregational chapel, Russell Town, erected in 1868 by Two Mile Hill. James L. Culverwell, sub-postmaster.

William Sommerville esq. J.P. of Bitton, at a cost of Letters arrive from Bristol; dispatched at 10.5 a.m. &.

£3,5°0, will hold 1.000 persons. There are also 'Wes- 1.5, 4.50 &; 8.5 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is a\

leyan, Baptist and P.rimitive .Methodist chapels. The Kingswood, I mile distant

cemetery. at Avon View, is 6 acres in extent, and contains Wall Letter Box, cleared week days only at 8 a.m. & 4.15

a mortuary chapel: it is under the control of the {;rban &; 7.30 p.m

Council acting as a Burial Board. There is a county

police station here, and in the neighbourhood are several URBAN DISTRIar COUNCIL.

collieries and the works of John Lysaght Limited, the Meeting day, 1st & 3~d wednesday in month, at the Paro-
Bristol Wagon Works Co. the Sheldon Bush and Patent chial Offices, 'Oouds hill, at 3.5 p.m.
Shot Company. the United Alkali Co. Limited, William

Butler and Co. and Peckett and Sons. The charities Members.
amount to £42 yearly, 'of which £28 is devQted to educa- Chairman, A. G. Verrier.
tional purposes and £9 is distributed to the poor; the bal-
ance is expended in infirmary tickets. The trustees of Vice-Chairman, J. Butler.

the late Handel Cossham esq. M.P. and Harry Wright No. I Ward. No. 4 Ward.
Bullock esq. who are lords of the manor, are the princi- S. G. Gerrish
pal landowners. The soil is light and very rich; subsoil, T. T. Bullw orth•v
various. The chief crops are vegetables. There are S. Stone T. T. Smith
many market gardens, which supply the Bristol and A. G. Verrier
South Wales market; but the land is rapidly being taken G. 'Winter
up for building purposes. The area is 1,832 acres of No. 5 Ward.
land, I4 ()f water, 2 of tidal water, and 2 of foreshore; No. 2 Ward.
J. n. Butler
rateable value, '£1°9,812; the population in 1871 was J. C. Bevan
16,209; 1881, 26,426; and in 1891, 36,718, of which T. Watkinl!
5,953 are attached to the parish church. G. Cambridge R. I. Weight

E. Harvey No. 6 Ward.
F. Hicks
No. 3 Ward. G. G. Jefferis

J. Coole •

F. T. Dyer

TWO :MILE HILL, 2! miles east of Bristol, is an eccle- F. Leonard G. Watts

siastical parish, formed September 19, 1845, and is in •
the rural deanery of Stapleton. The church of St.
Clerk, J oseph Stubbs, Parochial offices
Michael, erected in 1848, consists of chancel, nave of five
bays, north aisle, north porch and Q western tower con- Treasurer, G. J. Pickin, Lloyds Bank Limited, Bristol

taining a clock: there are 400 sittings. The register dates Medical Officer of Health, James Young M.D., C.M.
from 1848. The Ihing is a vicarage, gross yearly value
Clouds Hill house

Surveyor, T. L. Lewis C.E., M.S.A., M.S.I. Parochial

offices

'£288, with Tesidence, in the gift of the Crown and the Sanitary Inspector, Thomas John Crofts, Parochial offices
Bishop of Bristol alternately, and held since 1896 by the Collector, ..Alfred Peacock, Milton park

Rev. ..Alfred Edwin Adams B.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
St. Aidan's Mission Church, opened in 1880, has 400 sit-
tings: the Rev. Frederick TaIbot Parker RA. of Ayerst Cemetery, Joseph Stubbs, clerk to the local board
&11, Cambridge, has been curate in charge from 1896. County Police Station, Frederick S. Phelps, inspector·;
There are Baptist, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist 3 sergeants &; 18 ccmstables

and Wesleyan chapels. The area of St. Michael's is 1,000 • SCHOOLS.
acres; the population in 1881 was 5,676, and in 1891 was

7,175· .A School Board of 9 members was formed November 30,.

Parish Clerk of St. George, W. D. Baldon, St. George. 1874; J,ames Welsh, Schuol Board offices, Clouds hill,

Sexton of St. Michael's, .Albert Bush, Cuckoo lane, clerk to the board; Henry P. Stevens, Beaconsfield

Two Mile Hill. road & A. H. Haney, 4 Richmond terrace, Sain\

• George, attendance officers

UPPER and LOWER EASTON are po.rtions of Saint Board, Russel1 Town, built in 1869, for 260 bo)'s, 25()

George, I mile west of Bristol. Easton w.as formed into girls &, 171 infants; aveI'uge attendance, 255 boys, 185

an ecclesiastical parish, February 22, 1848, from the girls &; 172 infants; James Buss, master; Mrs. Emm3

}larishes of St. George and Stapleton, and is in the city Sweet, mistress; Miss Lilian How ell, infants' mistress

DIRECTORY.] .GLOUCESTERSHIRR. .SAIXT GBORGE. 219

Board (mixed), Crew's hole, built in 1866, for 155 child- William Sommerville esq. for 304 children; average

ren; average attendance, 138 boys &, girls; John Monck- attendance, 318; Henry Castle Smith, master

ton, master; infants', built in 1880, for 96 children; Board, Whitehall, erected in 18'80, &;r enlarged in r895,

average attendance, 69 infants; Miss Jane Ashford,mist for 346 boys, 296 girls &, 288 infants; average attend-

Board, Avond.ale, built in 1885, for 250 boys, 250 girls & ance, 350 boys, 300 girls & 286 infants; William Henry

250 infants; average attendance, 240 boys, 250 girls & J efIeries, master; Mrs. Kilburn-;..t: mistress; & Miss

235 infants; Chas. Hy. Clark, master; ~Irs. Ellen Sinclair, infants' mistress .

Price, mistress; & Miss Rosina. Horwood, infants' mist Saint George's National, built in 1856, for 390 children;

Board, Elm Grove road, Easton, built in 1877, for 327 average attendance, 180 boys &; ISO girls; George

boys, 260 girls &, 270 infants; average attendance, 330 Amos, master; Mrs. Chrissie Hodge, mistress

boys, 255 girls & 279 infants; ·Wm. Slocombe, master; St. Mark's National, Lower Easton (boys &, girls), built

Miss Mary Boaden, mistress; Miss Amelia Sarah Slo- in 1842, & enlarged in r888, for r85 boys & 142 girls;

combe, infants' mistress average attendance, 160 boys & 147 girls; Herbert

Board (infants), St. George, Summer Hill, built in 1878, Banks, master; Miss Ellen Chidsey, mistress

for 300 children; average attendance, 308; Miss Ellen St. Mark's National (infants), Lower Easton, opened in

Yeamans, mistress August, 1884, & enlarged in I8go, for 160 infants; aver-

Board (mixed), St. George, Summer Hill, completed &, age attendance, 140; Miss Blanche Welshman, mistress

opened in January, 1853, principally at the expense of

SAlKT GEORGE.

PRIVATfJ RESIDENTS. Hodge Henry, Singleton villa Parker Rev. Frederick Talbot RA.

Batten John, Cloudshill road Hodge Henry, jun. Cloud~'hill road (curate in charge of St. Aidan's

Beak Miss, Bell Hill road Hulbert Samuel, Bryant's Hill road Mission Church), Air Balloon road

Bird Charles James. Kingscote house, Runtley William, Bell Hill road Peckett Arthur, Oroft's end

Bryant's Hill road Hutchins Mrs. Summer Hill road Radford James, Ebrnezer place

Bosanquet Charles, Dundridge house, James Wiiliam, Myrtle vil:a, Coucls Radford Joseph, Dundridge house,

Bryant's Hill road Hill road tBibrbv•sa nt's Hill road
James Johmon
Bryant George T. Cloudshi::.I road JefIeries George, Cloudshill road S , Rock cottage,

Bu>t:er William Henry J.P. Summer Jullion Frederick Henry, Arden vil:a White's hin

Hill house Kershaw R<Jbert, Cloudshi:l road Stone Frederick, Summer Hill road

Elbrow Daniel, 'Crew's bole Lacy George, De Montford house, \Yatkins Thomns, A:derley villa,

Flamsteed Rev. Alvery Richard Dods- Cloudshill road Summer hill

ley M.A. The Vicarage Lewis Thos. Lawrence, Summerhi] rd Watkins Thomas L. Summer Hill rd

Fry George, Crew's hole Liversedge William, Cumberland ha Webster William, Cloudshill road

Fudge Thomas, Sandown villa, Long "Yltr. .A.:exandra ho. White's hI White Albert, C10udshill road

Summerhill road Lovell Alfred, Summerhill road Wilkins Mrs. Summerhill road

Furber FrederiC'k, Holly lodge Lovell Frederick, The Limes, Sum- Willis Wmiam, Bryant's Hill road

FurbeI' John, Cloudshill road merhill road Willitts Mrs. Summerhill road

FusseU Heury, Elm Tree house, Bell Lovell Isaac, Cloudshill road Woodington Albert Jsph. Ben Hill rd

Hill road ~Iartin :Frederick, Summerhill lodge Young James M.D. C:oudshill house,

Harvey Ernest, Cloudshill road Payne Alfred, C:oudshill road Cloudshill road

COMMERCIAL. Crofts Thomas .John, sanitary inspector to urban councll,

Abbott Thomas, pork butcher, Cloudshill road Parochial offices

Abbott Thomas, market gardener, Hudd's bottom Cutler Allen, butcher, Cloudshill road

Baldon \Villiam Daniel, scripture reader .& parish clerk, Dark l?rederick, shopkeeper, Air Balloon road

Summerhill ,road . Dark Henry, beer retailer, Air Balloon road

Bane Chas. hardware dlr. & wheelwright, Nag's Head hill Davies .John, beer retailer, Nag' SI Head hill

Bateman Albert, shopkeeper, Whiteway Toad Evans Enoch, shopkeeper, Archers road

Bateman Edwin, grocer, Cloudshill road Evans John, boot & shoe maker, Cloudsihill I'oad

Beak Samh ~Mrs.), beer retailer, Netham road Field Charles, grocer, Cloudshill road

Beese George, grocer, Bryant's Hill road Field Eiizabeth (Mrs.), butcher, Cloudshill road

Beese lsaac, shopkeeper, Cloudshill road Fink \Villiam, shopkeeper & ale dealer, Nag's Hill road

Bcnnett Alfred, brick maker, Clay hill Flook Jacob, shopkeeper, Cloudshill road

Bird Daniel, shopkeeper, Clouds-hill road Floyd A1ice (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, Bell Hill road

Bisp John, Cherry Orchard P.:H'. .& grocer & draper, Ford Alfred James, confectioner, Bell Hill road

Cloudshill road Ford Rebecca CMiss), market gardener, Hudd's bottom

Blackmore Chas. insur. supt. Sandown vil. iSummerhill I'd Francombe George F. confectioner, Bell Hill road

Breddy Samuel, shopkeeper, Bell Hill road :Freka Benjamin, butcher, Bell Hill road

llrewer Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bell Hill road l"udge Thomas, boot manufacturer, Orchard road

Bristol Fire Clay Co. Lim. (A. H. Burge, manager), Fuga Henry, carpenter, Air Balloon road

makers of sanitary pipes &c. Crew's hole Fuge John, market gardener, White's hill

Bristol Miners' Association (William Whitefield, agent), Furber Charles, boot maker, Cloudshill road

Cloudshill road Fluber Frede1'ick, boot manufacturer, Bethel road

Britton George, shopkeeper, Hudds-bill road f'ussell George E. & Albert E. brick .& tile ma-so Croft end

Britton lsnac, wholesale boot & shoe maker Fussell Henry, horse dealer, Bell Bill road

Britton Joseph, plasterer, Whites hill :Fussell John, beer retailer, Nag's Head hill

Brown William, market gardener, Croft'S! End road f'ussell Thomas, butcher, ~ag's Head hill

Bruton Alfred, World's End P.H. Cloudshill road Gay Samuel George, beer retailer, Bell Hill road

Bruton Alfred, jun. grocer, Clouds-hill road I Gerrish Geo. SI. market gardener, Garden rd. Whitehall

Bruton Sidney V. Bell inn, Bell Hill road Gerrish Jabez, sihopkeeper, Bell Hill road

Bryant Thomas & Co. boot manufacturers, Orchard road Gibney William, market gardener, White's hill

Bryant Albert Alfred, grocer, Bryant's Hill road Gingell George, hay dealer, Swan lane

Bryant Alfred, beer seller, Cloudshill road Gladstone Working Men's Club (Rowland Davies, sec.),

Dryant Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bell Hill road Croft end

Bull Waiter George, sign writer, Nag's Head hill Godwin James, shopkeeper, 3 Bethel place, doudshill road

Bush William, corn dealer, Bell Hill road Golding J oseph, boot manufacturer, Bell Hill road

Butler William & Co. tar importers, Crew's hole Gouldingl Samuel, shopkeeper, Rodney road

Byrt Brothers, coopers, St. George,s cooperage Granger John, shopkeeper, C10udshill road

Caines John, greengrocer, Cloudshill road Green William, shopkeeper, Kag's iH.ill road

Caines William, quarry owner, Nag's Head hill Griffiths George, market gardener, Air Balloon road

Cemetery (.Joseph Stubbs, clerk to the urban district Grindell Alfred, dealer in horses, Pyle marsh

council; Thomas Phipps, superintendent) Grindell William, haulier, Netham road

Churchill Georga, coal dealer, Crew's hole Hale John Robert, mason, Cloudshill road

Churchill Henry J. farmer, Croft's End farm Hammond Fred, blacksmith, Nag's Head hill

Churchill John Henry, farmer, Speedwell Harding Beatrica A. (Miss) ,teacher of music,Summerhill rd

Colley, Hartnell & Co. stay makers, Orchard road Rarding John, haulier, Clay hill

Collins Charles, shopkeeper, Burchells green Harding William, grocer, Summerhill road

Collis Robert, tailor, Bell Hill road Rarding William, market gardener, Holmes hill

Cool & Williams, coal merchants, Bryant's Hill road Harris Edward James, cycle maker, Summerhill road

Cossens Benjamin Thomas, farmer, Air Balloon road Hurtnell Albert, stay maker, see Colley, Hartnell & Co

Cossens Francis, grocer, Cloudshill road Haryey &; Billitt, grocers, Air Balloon road

280 SAINT GEORGE. GLO UCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Harvey Abel~ haker, Rodney roa.d Peckett & Sons, locomotive engineers, Atlas engine works

Haney A. H. sOOool attendance officer, 4 Richmond terrace l'helps Frederick S. inspector of police, Church road

!Harvey Elizabeth (¥rs.), yeast merchant, Holmfield house Phillips William, The Lamb P.R. Crew's hole

Hasell Benjamin Hall, market gardener, Ros~ green Phipps Thomas, beer retailer, Cloudshill road

Haskins Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Air Balloon lane Pincknell William, baker, CloudS/hill road

Hawkins .Alfred, grocer, Croft end Pcwell ,lames, market gardener, Nag's Head hill

Hendy James, beer seller, Croft's end Powell Samuel, shopkeeper, Crew's hole

Hing-ston Ernest, chemical manufacturer, see Norrington, Preddy Rir.hard, shopkeeper, Arley terrace, Rose green

Hingston & Co Pretty WiUiam, stay manufacturer, Cloudshill road

Hiscox George, ale dealer, Bell Hill road P,'uett Henry, boatman, Crew'S' hole

Hodge Hy. assistant overseer,Singleton vil.Summerhill rd Purdy Thomas, tinsmith, Marling road

Hodges Isaac, market gardener, Base green Reed John, shopkeeper, Air Balloon road

Hole John, baker, Cloudshill road Reed Willi,lm, ,shopkeeper, Whiteway road

Hooper Frederick, butcher, Cloudshill road Rc-berts Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bell Hill road

Howard Frederick, hair dresser, BelllHillroad Roberts George, market gardener, Croft's end

Howard George, hair dresser, 6 Bethel place, Cloudshill rd Roberts Isaac, shopkeeper & ale seller, Howard street

Howard Isaac, hair dresser, Bryant's' Hill road Rogers Esther (Mrs.), dres~ maker, Bell Hill road

Hunt Hannah (Mrs.), boot maker, Cloudshill road Rogers George, market gardener, White's hill

Hussey James, cattle dealer, White's Hill farm Rogers Richard, shopkeeper, Air Balloon road

TIes George, druggist, 4 Bethel place, Cloudshill road Rogers Thomas, beer retailer, Crew's hole
Say Hannah (Mrs.), s-hopkeeper, Air Balloon road
nes Joseph, market gardener, Oay bottom
Isaacs James, greengrocer, Hudds Hill road Skellard Charles Robert, shopkeeper, Crew's hole

Jackson George, Pied Horse P.B:. Summerhill road Shellard Richmond, confectioner & hair dresser, Beacons-

James John, market jZ'ardener, White's hill field place, Cloudshill road

Jay Samuel, grocer, Marling road Slade Henry, market gardener, Dundridge lane

Jay Thomas, painter, Cloudslull road Slade Thomas, shopkeeper, Grew's hole

Jefferies William, upholsterer, Nag's Head hill Slor,er George, boot maker, Bell Hill road

Jenkins Harry, watch maker, Bell Hill road Smith Arthur Thomas', architect & surveyor, Cloudshill rd

Jenkins James, fishmonger, Cloudshill road Smith Elizabeth (Mrs.), coal dealer, Cloudshill road

Johnson John Albert, market gardener, Garden road Smith George, house agent, Plumme~s hill

Joiner Martha (Mrs.), haberdasher, Cloudshill road Smith Isanc, horse dealer, Air Balloon ·road

Jones Albert, greengrocer, Crew's hole Smith Thomas, shopkeeper, Nag's Head. road

JoneS' Job, Bull PJEJI. Crew's hole Smith Thos. Taylor, undertaker, Post office, Cloudshill rd

Kingswood & Parkfield Collieries Co. Limited (Thomas Sdomon J. (Miss), refreshment rooms, Cloudshill road

Parr, chairman; John Henshaw, sec) Sommerville 'Vm. & James, paper mufrs. Bryant's Hill rd

Knight Joseph, tailor, I Marling road Stephens William Hu/!h, beer retailer, Bryant's' Hill road

Lacey Abraiham, hardware dealer, Cloudshill road Stinchcombe William Henry, haulier, Cloudshill road

Land Alice (Mrs.), shopkpr. &; 'bEer retlr. Summerhill rd Stone & Tinson, chemical manufacturers, Crew's hole

Lewis Thomas Lawrence a.E., M.S.A., M.S.L surveyor to Stubbs Joseph, clerk to the Saint George Urban Council,

the urban district council, Summerhill road Parochial officM, Cloudshill

Lockwood William, carpenter, Bryant Hill road Summers Arthur, boot maker, White's hill

Long George Wm. teacher of music, Summerhill road Summers 'William, market gardener, White's hill

Long' Rabert, shopkeeper, Nag's Head hill Taylor George, baker, Bell Hill road

Lovell Francis George, shopkeeper, Bethel road Taylor LewiSi A. coal merchant, Bryant's Rill road

Lovell Israel, quarry owner, Crew's hole Thatcher Elizabeth Rebecca (Mrs.), grocr.Bryant's Hill rd

Lovell Jasper, boot maker, Cloudshill 1I'0ad Thatcher William G. stone merchant, 'White's hill

Lovell Bosins. (Miss), dresS' maker, Nag's Head hill Tincknell William LJaimmietse,d•b, aNk er, Cloudshill road
LuJ. er OharleS' Hendry, shopkeeper, Rose green United Alkali Co. etham works

Lysaght John Limited, iron founders Drch William, hair dresser, Air Balloon road

McGrath 'William, furniture dealer, Bell Hill road Wakelield George, farmer, Air Balloon road

Maggs Herbert, grocer, Bell Hill road Wakefield Joseph, market gardener, Clay bottom

Maggs Joseph, market gardener, Croft's' end Walker James, beer retailer, Crew's hole

Maggs Samuel Henry, market gardener, Croft's end Watts Frelt, cycle dealer, Bell Hill road

Martin Frederick, barge owner, contractor & quarry owner 'Veaver Arthur, shopkeeper, Archers road

Maud Joseph, furniture broker, Cloudshill road Webb Ann (Mrs.), haulier, Rodney road

Merrick Charles William, shopkeeper, Bell Hill road Weeks Charle'.!, market gardener, Bryant's Hill road

Milson HeDlI'y, greengrocer, Cloudshill road V{eeks Ellen (Miss), dress maker, Pl~mn:er's' Hill road

Milson William, market gardener, Swan lane ,"Veeks George Yates, grocer, Plummer's Hill road

Milton Henry, wardrobe dealer, Albert road Weeks James, sanitary inspector St. George Urban Dis-

Milton John, corn dealer, Clondshill road trict Council, Bell Hill road

Morgan Arthur, draper, Cloudshill Toad 'Weeks 'Villiam, market gardener, Grouty's lane

Mortimer E. & Co. tanners & curriers, Crown works Welch John, fried fish dealer, Cloudshill road

Moss Emily (Miss), dress maker, Chalk lane Whiteford George, shopkeeper, Cloudshill road

Moss George, shopkeeper, Whitehall Whittingham Charles, hay & straw dealer, Rose green

Murray Riohard, plumber, Cloudshill road Williams David & Co. stay manufactrs. Bell Hill road

Kewick Robert C. shopkeeper, Ooudshill road Williams' Powell, furniture dealer, Cloud~hill road
Norrington, Hingston &; Co. chemical manure manufac· Williams Waiter, wardrobe dealer, Cloud~hill road

turers, :Netham Wiltshire Daniel, watch maker, Nag's Head hill

Nurse Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Air Balloon road 'Yithers Alfred, farmer, Summer hill

Olds William & Joseph, basket makers, Bryant's Hill road Wolland Harriet (Mrs.), grocer & baker, Rose green

Packer J ames, confectioner, Cloudshill road Wood Alfred, baker, Nag's Head hill

Palmer James, boot & shoe maker, Cloudshlll road 'Wood George, baker, Bell Hill road

Parfitt Fred~rick, picture frame maker, Bell Hill road Wood Smannah (Mis~), teacher of music, Cloudshill road

Parker Albert Alfred, grocer, Bryant's Hill road Wocdev Williaffi, quarry owner, Crew's hole

Parker AlfrEVl, shopkeeper, Summe:rib.ill road Wood-iilgton Albert Joseph, wholesale boot & shoe manu-

Parker Fred. W. venetian blind maker, Cloudshill road facturer, Bell Hill road

Parsons Frederick, King's Head P.R. Whitehill Wren James, grocer, Cloudshill road

P'lyne :Francis, decorator, Bethel road Young- .Tames M.D., C.M. surgeon & medical officer No.

Payne Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cloudshill road 6 district, Barton Regis union & medical officer of

Peacock Alfred,collector to urban district council,Milton pk health Saint George Urban District Council, Cloudshill

Pearce Joseph, shopkeeper, Magpie top house, Cloudshill road

Pearce Sarah (Mrs.), market gardener, Croft's end

Pearce William Henry, barge owner, Crew's hole (For remainder of names in Saint George, see Bristol).

EASTON.
(For names of residents, see Saint George & Bristol).

TWO MILE HILL.

PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Belsher James, Avelina house, Sound- Dix Mrs.Rose vil.Two Mile Hill road
Edwards Thomas, Waters road
Adams Rev. Alfred Edwin RA. (vicar well road Gledstone John, Fillwood house

of St. Michael's), Two Mile Hi:! rd Croot Hy. Unitr ho. Two Mile HI. rd

DIRECTORY. ] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. folAINTBURY. 281

Godfrey John, Two Mile Hill road Long Sylvanus, Two Mile Hill road Rea Charles, Two Mile Hill road

Hale George, Two Mile Hill road Miles Mrs. Glendare ho. Soundwell rd Savery Herbert, Two Mile Hill road

J1!fferis George Graham,II Ducie par Powell Llewelyn, Two Mile Hill road Webb Mrs. Rodney lane

Jones James William, Fillwood cot Pullin Samuel, 16 Staplehill road

COMMERCIAL. Johnson Daniel, dairyman, Two Mile Hill road

Allen Wallace, baker, Two Mile Hill road Johnson'Samuel, greengrocer, Two Mile Hill road

Am.e-rican Bazaar Co. (Frederick William Pearce, man- Jones \Yilliam, coach builde.r, Two Mile Hill road

ager), hardware dealers, Two Mile Hill road Joy Emanuel, florist, Two Mile Hill road

Andrews Richard, news agent, '!'wo Mile Hill road KeepingSl Caroline (Mrs.) shopkeeper, Two l\'Iile Hill road

Baker Samuel, ironmonger, Two Mile Hill road Kembery Albert, beer retailer, Black Boy & Trumpet lane

Bane Ann (Mrs.), draper, Two Mile Hill road Kembery Alfred, beer retailer, Baker's lane

Bateman Isaac, baker, Two Mile Hill road Kent William George, grocer, Two Mile Hill road

Baxter Mary Jane (Miss), tobacconist, Two Mile Hill road Lane Frederick, brick maker

Bird Brothers, boot manufacturers, Two Mile Hill road Lay ton Thomas, manager of Singer Manufacturing Co.

Bracey Henry Chas. blacksmith & builder, Two Mile Hill rd 'l'wo Mile Hill road

Bracl'Y Jane (Mrs.), ironmonger, Two Mile Hill road Leonard Simeon, greengrocer, Two Mile Hill road

Bright Samuel, greengrocer, Soundwell road Maggs Fredk. boot & shoe manmactr. Two Mile Hill road

Britton & Jefferies, boot & shoe manufacturers, Waters rd Major Joseph, beer retailer, Two Mile Hill road

Britton Giles, haberdasher, Two Mile Hill road Maybery George, greengrocer, Two Mile Hill road

Britton Samuel, clothier, Two Mile Hill road Miles Thomas &; Co. Limited, boot &; shoe manufacturers,

Bryant Alfred, greengrocer, Two Mile Hill road Soundwell road

Bry-ant George, coal dealer, Two Mile Hill road Mills James, hair dresser. Soundwell mad

Bry-ant J oseph, china & glass dealer Milsom Samuel, builder, Two Mile Hill road

Eryant Samuel, shopkeeper, Soundwell road Milson 'Yilliam. boot maker, Two :Mile Hill road

Bull George S. beer retailer, Two Mile Hill road Mogg Henry, confectioner, Two Mile Hill road

Burnham Thomas, grocer & beer retailer, Two Mile Hill rd Monk J esse, shopkeeper, Albany street

Candy Albert Tom, dairyman, Two Mile Hill road Moon Francis Isaac, eorn dealer, Two Mile Hill road

Clarke Willi&rn, boot manufacturer, Two Mile Hill road Mordecai Elijah, shopkeeper. Soundwell road

Cole EJith E. (Mrs.), confectioner, Two Mile Hill road Moxham Henry, shopkeeper, Unity street

Cc-nett Samuel George, Rose & Crown P.B. Two Mile m.rd Kational Union of Boot & Shoe Operatives (Kingswood

Cook Edmund, grocer, Two Mile Hill road branch) (Richard Hallaran, sec)

Ccombs WaIter, grocer, Two Mile Hill road Kettle James William, insurance agent

Cottle George, builder, Rodney lane Kewman William, butcher, Two Mile Hill road

Cottle George, haulier, Black Boy & Trumpet lane Newton Walter, shopkeeper, 13 Queen street

CoUle William, Black Horse P.B. Two Mile Hill road Kott Emily (Mrs.), dress maker, Staplehill road

Orew Moses, greengrocer, Two Mile Hill road Oram !saac, butcher, Two Mile Hill road

Crldge Edmund, hair dresser, Two Mile Hill :road Osborne George, plumber, Two Mile Hill road

Cridge Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road Packer George, shopkeeper, Soundwell road

eroot Henry & Sons, boot manufacturers', Waters road Park Brothers, corn merchants, Two Mile Hill road

Culverwell James Llewellin, draper, &, post office, Two Peacock George, baker, Tw() Mile Hill road

Mile Hill road P('acock James, baker, John street

Davis Henry, grocer, Two Mile Hill road Peacock George, baker, John street

Davis John, beer retailer, Two Mile Hill road Pearce George, hair dresser, Two Mile Hill road

Denllam Fredk. fried fish dealer, Two Mile Hill road Pbipps Henry, Chequers P.H. Soundwell

Douglas Brothers, engineers, Two Mile ffill road Phipps Henry W. grocer, Two Mile Hill road

Edwards Thomas, beer retailer, Two Mile Hill road l'illinger Aaron, shopkeeper, Soundwell road

Edwards Thomas, boot manufacturer, John street P(,ol Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer, Tw() Mile Hill road

England George, tailor, Two Mile Hill road Powell Llewelyn, physician & surgeon, Two Mile Hill road

English J oseph, 'shopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road Pratt Albert Edward, grocer, Two Mile Hill road

}~vans W. &; Co. boot manufacturers, Staple Hill road Pullin J ames, cabinet maker, Two Mile Hill road

Eyles Henry, boot &; shoe manUfacturer, Staple Hill road Roberts John, brass founder, Two Mile Hill road

1'100k John &; Co. grocers, &; agents for W. &; A. Gilbey Roberts William, baker, Two Mile Hill road

Lim. wine & spirit merehants. Two Mile Hill road Rogers Aaron, sihopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road

Flook John, baker, Two Mile Hill road Rogers Fred, boot &; shoe manufacturer, Staple Hill road

Flook Samuel, butcher, Two Mile Hill road Ragers William, boot &; shoe manufactr. Two Mile Hill rd

Ford Thomas, grindery deale.r, Two Mile Hill road Rossiter Charlotte (Mrs.), boot maker, Two Mile Hill road

Furber WaIter, corn merClhant, Two Mile Hill road Rossiter John, drape'l" Two Mile Hill road

Fussell Tobias, horse dealer, Queen street Saunders Charles, boot manufacturer, Two Mile Hill road

Gapper Francis, shopkeeper Scadding Thomas John, grocer, Soundwell road

Gapper Henry, butcher, Two Mile Hill road Scudamore George '\V. chemist, Two Mile Hill road

Gerrish William, shopkeeper, Unity street Scull Rhoda (Miss), shopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road

Godfrey In. Sam!. boot &; shoe manufr. Two Mile Hill rd Shipp George Batten, baker, Two Mile Hill road

Godfrey \Yilliam, builder, Staple Hill road Short Job, shopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road

Golding George, haulier, Two Mile Hill road! Singer )Ianufacturing Co. (Thomas Layton, manager)

Green Alfred, g,reengrocer, Two Mile Hill road SlopeI' George. boot maker, Ilell Hill road

Greenwood William, naturalist, Two Mile Hill road Smith Isaac, grocer, Two Mile Hill road
Smith ~Iatthew, hair dresser, Two Mile Hill road
Gregory Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Two :Mile Hill road

Guard John, haulier, Two Mile Hill road Smith ~Iatthew Henry, beer retailer, Two Mile Hill road

Hale Frederick, baker, Two Mile Hill road Stone :Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Reformatory lane

Harding Thomas, hair dresser, Two Mile Hill road TyIer William, currier

Haskins Mary (Mrs.), coffee house, Two Mile Hill road Watkins Pllilip, furniture dealer, Two Mile Hill road

Hassell William Mark, butcher, Two Mile Hill road 'Ye-aver Robelft James, grindery dealer, Soundwell road

J efferies George, boot manufactr. see Britton & J efferies Whipple Jacob, tailor, King street

.Tefferies James, grocer, Two Mile Hill road 'White Samuel, shopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road

.Tefferie£ William, butcher, Two Mile Hill road White 1Yilliam, refreshment rooms, Two Mile Hill road

.Jefferis George Graham. dentist. II Ducie parade \Villshire Isaac, shopkeeper, Two Mile Hill road

Jenkins Elizabeth SophiaJ (Mrs.), haberdasher, Two Mile "'-iUS/hire James, builder, Reformatory road

Hill road I'Vrefolfd F. (~frs.), grocer, Two l\Iile Hill road
Jenkins Harry, watch maker, Two Mile Hill road Zahringer J oseph A. watch maker, Two Mile Hill road

Jenkins Jane (Mrs.), haberdasher, Two Mile Hill road

SAINTBURY is a village and parish, :l miles south spire, containing 6 bells: the east window retains some
from Honeybourne station on the Great Western rail-
way, 30 north-east from Gloucester, 7 south-east from ancient stained glass, representing St. Nicholas: there

Evesham and 3 west from Campden, in the Eastern are 200 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from
division of the county, hundred of Upper Kiftsgate,
the year 1651; marriages, 1585; burials, 1603. The
division of Moreton, Campden petty sessional division,
Evesham union and county court district, rural deanery living is a rectory, net yearly value £140, exclusive of,
lIS acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of James
of Campden, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of
Gloucester. The church of St. Nicholas is a building of Roberts-West esq. of Alscot Park, and held since 1873
stone, in the Norman and later styles, consisting of by the Rev. Charles Walker Simons M..A. of Queen'~
~hancel, nave, transepts, north porch and a tower with College, Cambridge. There is an ancient cross at the

bottom of the village. A charity of £5 10S. annually is

distributed in bread and coal to the poor at qrristrp.as.

282 SAINTBVRY. GLOUCESTERSIDRE. [ TruLLY'S

.Tames Roberts-West esq. D.L. of AlSCJt Park, Preston- Lette~g received through Broadway RS.O. (Wares), which
on-Stour, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. is al;,;o the nearest money order office, arrive at 8.15
The soil in the valley is a stiff loam, on the hill a light
soil, suitable for turnips and barley, beneath which is a.m. & 4 p.m. lVall Letter Box cleared at 9.15 a.m. &

oolite rock. The chief crops are wheat and beans, with 5.10 p.m.; sundays, 9.15 a.m. The nearest telegraph
much land in pasture. The area is 1,340 acres; rateable office is at We:;ton-sub-Edge, I mile distant
value, £1,726; the population in 1891 was 122.
National School (mixed), built in 1f543, for 40 children;
Parish Clerk, William Smith. average attendance, 20; & partly supported by J.
Roberts-West esq.; Miss Evans, mistress

Simons Rev. Charles "alker M.A. Andrews Frederick, farm bailiff to Rimell William, farmer

Rectory the Rev. C. W. Simons M.A Smith Thomas, farmer, Newcomb

Crump Joseph, farmer, Grounds farm Drury James, farmer

SALPERTON is a parish and village, on the Cotswold )'ear 1617, but the earlier portion is imperfect. The

Hills, I mile north from Notgrove station on the Chelten- living is a vicarage, net yearly value £60, including 45

ham and Banbury branch of the Great Western railway, acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of .Gloucester,

9 miles east-south-east from Cheltenham, 7 south-east and held since 1897 by the Rev. Arthur Charles Gabell.

from Winchcomb and .~ north-west from ~orthleach, Salperton Park is now the property of Messrs. Stretton

in the Eastern division of the county, Bradley hundred, and Alien, who are lords of the manor and chief land-

Northleach petty sessional division, union and county owners; the park extends over about 83 acres. The soil

court district, rural deanery of Northleach, archdeaconry is loamy; the subsoil is the same. The chief crops are

of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. The church of wheat, roots and barley. The area is 1,210 acres; rate-

.All Saints is a small building of stone, chiefly in the able value, £877; the population in 1891 was 131.

Perpendicular style, with some Norman portions, con- Parish Clerk, Charles Curtiss.

sisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an embattled Letters received through Andoversford R.S.O. arrive at

western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 9 a.m. The nearest money order office is at North-

bells: the chancel arch and windows al'6 Norman: the leach; telegraph office at .Andoversford,3l miles distant

church was restored in 1885-6, at a cost of £900, and ~ational School (mixed), built in 1885, for 40 children;

Ihas sittings for 100 persons. The register dates from the average attendance, 18; Mrs. Jane Arley, mistress
Curtiss Charles, baker Jones Martha (Mrs.), s'hopkeeper \ Stretton & Allen, farmers & landwnrs

Flook Thomas, carpenter Lewis Alfred, farmer, Cotswell lodge

SANDHURST is a parish and straggling village, 3 Cotswold Hills, and is surrounded by a large estate.
miles north from Gloucester, and bounded on the west The Dean and Chapter of Gloucester and Capt. Thomas
by the navigable river Severn, in the Northern division de Winton, who are lords' of the manor, Mrs. Johnstone,
of the county, hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, Mrs. Seddons and Henry Drinkwater esq. are the chief
Gloucester petty sessional division, union and county landowners. The soil is in some parts a sandy loam,
court district, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry in others a stiff clay, with a subsoil of blue lias, but the
and diocese of Gloucester. The Severn affords good low lying land on the banks of the Severn, known as the
salmon fishing. The church of St. Laurence, restored Sandhurst meadows, is a rich, deep alluvial deposit, and
and enlarged in 1858, is an edifice of stone, in the Nor- very liable to floods. The greater part of the land is in
man and Late Pointed styles, consisting of chancel, pasture and meadow. The area is 2,124 acres of land
nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch and an em- and 48 of water; rateable value, £4,194; the population
battled western tower containing 6 bells: the font is in 1891 was 438.
leaden and of Norman date: there are 250 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1537. The living is a Parish Clerk Alfred William Roberts
vicarage, yearly value £200, including 41 acres of glebe, .' .
with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester,
and held since 1896 by the Rev. William Vincent iBlen- Letters arrive from Gloucester at 8 p.m. Wall Letter Box,
cowe Perry B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here ~ear the church, cleared at 6 p.m. Wall Letter Box,
m Sandhurst lane, cleared at ?25 p.m. The nea~est
is a Wesleyan chapel. The charities are of £17 yearly ~oney order & telegraph office IS at Gloucester, 3 miles
value. Wallsworth Hall, the seat of Capt. Thomas de
Winton R.A., J.P. is a handsome mansion, commanding dIstant
a beautiful prospect over Twigworth, Hatherley and the ~ational School (mixed), built, with residence for the

master, in 1847, for 80 children; average attendance,
67; Miss Sman Warwick Causebrook, mistress

De Winton Captain Thos. R.A., J.P. Butt Richard, farmer, Abload court Jones Arthur, farmer

Wallsworth hall Champion Sarah (Mrs.), farmer,Pen- Lane John Rudge, farmer, Bengrove

Hall Sidney, Linden villa neil's farm Newman Elizabeth (Mrs.), White

Johnstone Mrs. The Grove Collard Charles, farm bailiff to Mrs. Horse inn

P~rry Rev. William Vincent Blen- Seddons, Wotton house Newman Samuel, farmer, Pound farm

cowe RA. The Vicarage Cooper Thomas, farm bailiff to Fredk. Roberts Alfred, parish clerk, assistant

Waddy Hubert, The Abbot's lodge Arke:I esq. High Musse:end farm overseer & clerk to the parish councl

IBurford Joseph, horse dealer & wheelwright, Rectory cottage
COMMERCIAL. Daniell Edmund John, carpenter & Roberts Thos. (Mrs.), shpkpr. & frmr

Smith 'Alfred (Mrs.),farmer, Mussel-

farmer, The Barrows Daniell James, shoe maker end farm

Butler WiIliam & Co. tar & resin dis- Drinkwater Henry, farmer, Moat frm Surman Wm. farmer, Brawn farm

tillers & naphtha manufacturers, Gibbons Frank, farmer, Walsworth fm Trueman Edmund, machinist, Cuffries
Johnson Charles, farmer, Singleton I
Upper Parting works

SAPPERTON is a parish and village, 4 miles north- S. C.L. of Brasenose College, Oxford. A sum of about
west from Tetbury Road station, on the Swindon, Stroud
£50, arising from land situated at Duntisbourne Abbots,
and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway,
is distributed every winter in bread. In the vicinity are
and 5 west from Cirencester, in the Eastern division of
the county, Bisley hundred, Cirencester petty sessional vestiges of an ancient camp. Silver and brass coins of

division, union and county court district, and in the rural the time of Queen Elizabeth, with a few of Roman date, '
deanery of Bisley and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou-
were found here in 1759. Earl Bathurst, who is lord of
cester. The Thames and Severn canal and the Chelten-
ham branch of the Great Western railway pass through the manor, and Michael Biddulph esq. M.P. are the chief
tunnels in this parish, the former 2~ miles long, and the
landowners. The soil is alluvial; subsoil, oolite. The
latter 11 miles in length. The church of St. Kenelm,
chief crops are wheat, barley, tmnips and pasture. The
erected about 1200 A.D. is a cruciform building of stone,
reconstructed in the reign of Queen Anne, and consists of area is 3,908 acres; rateable'value, £7,362; the popula-

chancel, nave, aisles, north and soutb chapels, south porch tion in 1891 was 498 in the civil, and 514 in the ecclesias-

and an eastern embattled tower with spire containing 3 tical parish.
bells: in the north aisle is a monument with kneeling
effigies and arms to Sir Henry Poole. who was knighted Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act,

in 1603 and died in 1616, and to his wife, and in the south 1882," the Manor House was transferred from SappertoD
aisle one to Sir Robert Atkyns kt. ~LP. the historian of
Gloucestershire, who died 29 Oct. 17II: there are ~oo Coates for civil purposes.
sittings. The register dates from the year 1661. The
Sexton, George Arnold.
living is a rectory, yearly value [350, including' 437 acres
of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Earl Bathurst, and FRAMPTON MANSELL tithing, 2 miles west. St.

held since 1884 by the Rev. Hugh Taylor Cropper M.A., Luke's chapel of ease, built in 1843, by Earl Bathurst, is

of stone, and consists of nave with apse and a turret con-

taining one bell: there are several stained windows, and

an organ: the chapel affords 180 sittings. '

Sexton, William Pbelps.

P,lst & M. O. 0., S. R & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

~Iark Gardiner, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from

1Hm:CT{}RY. ] GLO UCESTERSHlRE. <SELSLEY. '283

Cirencester at 8.25 a.m.; dispatched at 5.25 p.m. Wall Letter Box at Sapperton, cleared at 5.20 p.m.; at
Coates is the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant The Cross roads, cleared at 3.50 p.m. week days only
post Office, Frampton Mansell.-Mrs. Sarah Gibbons,
sub-postmistress. Letters arrive viA Chalford from Police Station, Mark Cove, sergeant, &; I constable
Stroud per foot post at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 3.55 Parochial School, Sapperton (mixed), built, with mis-
p.m. Postal orders are issued bere, but not paid.
tress's residence, in 1846, for 70 children; average at-
Chalford is the nearest telegraph office tendance, 60; &; supported by Earl Bathurst; Miss

Bertha Martin, mistress

SAPPERTON. Harrison John, Bell P.H Litt:ewood Rev. John M.A. (retired)

Cropper Rev. Hugh Taylor M.A., Harrison Richard, carpenter, shop- Clark Chas.Edwd.frmr. The Downs fm

S.C.L. (rector), Rectory keeper &; beer retailer Clark Henry, farmer, Bacon farm

Hancox Richard William WaIter Harrison 'WaIter, assistant overseer &; Rill Ann (.Mrs.), White Horse P.R. &;

Nathaniel, Dorvall clerk to parish council haulier

COMMERCIAL. Lewis Raymond James, farmer Hughes' Geo. Wm. Crown inn & btchr

.Arnold Heorge & Richard, farmers Lewis Thos. jun. farmer, Raley farm Jones Joseph, shopkeeper

Coates William, farmer Osborne Martin, frmr. Lark Hill frm

Gardiner Job (exors. of), saw mills FRlAMPTON MANSELL. Peert Charles, beer retailer

& COM merchants, Daneway Bridges Mrs Ratcliff James, farmer, Wesley farm

Gardiner Mark, carpenter, Post office Holbrow Lewin Teakle Wait. Jas. farmer, Manor frm

SAUL is a village and parish, and in 1885, together therne Court, are the chief landowners. The soil is allu-
with Fretherne, was formed into a parish under the vial and sand; subsoil, gravel. The land is nearly all in
pastUl'e and meadow. The area. of the parish of Fretherne
"Divided Parishes Act, 1876-82"; it is on the river Sev- with Saul is 1,119 acres of land, 21 of water, 58 of tidal
water and 94 of foreshore; rateable value is included with
ern and at the junction of the Gloucester and Berkeley Fretherne; the popula~ion of Saul ecclesiastical pariEh
in 1891 was 412. Framilode, a chapelry partly belonging
canal with the Stroud canal, 5 miles north-west from to this parish, will be found under a separate head.
Stonehouse stations on the Great Western and Midland
railways, and 8! south-west from Gloucester, in the Nor- Parish Clerk, Lawrence Cottle.
thern division of the county, Whitstone hundred, Whit-
Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,
minster petty sessional division, 'Vheatenhurst union,
Gloucester county court district, and in the rural dean- Parcel Post & Annuity &, Insurance Office.-Renry
Warren, sub-postmaster. Letters through Stonehouse
ery, archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. Fretherne at 8.10 a.m. &; 5 p.m. (for callers only); dispatched at
will be found under a separate heading. The church of 4.45 p.m.; no letters received or dispatched on sun-
days
St. James is an ancient edifice of stone in the Perpen-
dicular and earlier styles, consisting of large chancel, SCHOOLS.

nave of five bays, north aisle, south porch and an em- National (mixed), built in 1818, for 130 children; aver-
battled western tower of the 15th century, containing one age attendance, 93; Frederick Shephard, master
bell and a clock, placed in l887: there is a memorial
window to W. Clegram, of Saul Lodge, erected by sub- British (mixed), built in 1847, for 200 children; average
attendance, 120; Ezra Knowles, master
scription in 1863: the north aisle was added and the
church enlarged and thoroughly restored in 1850, when WATER CO::-"-VEYANCE.

a new chancel was built: there are sittings for 200 per- Steamers leave Sharpness for Gloucester, viA. the canal,
sons. The re~ister dates from the year 1671, but is not
continuous, having suffered from submersion in a flood passing by Sau1, three times daily in summer & once
early in this century. The living is a vicarage, net Jearly
value £154, including over 37 acres (}f glebe, with resi- daily in winter, returning the same day
dence, in the ~ift of the vicar of Standish, and held since
1883 by the Rev. Robert Hall M.A. of Christ's College, CARRIERS.
Cambridge. Here is a Congregational chapel, erected in To Gloucester.-Knight, from Longney, passing through

1867 at a cost of £700, and seating 200 persons. The Saul, mono & thurs.; FrJer, from Saul, mono wed. &
sat
trustees of the late Henry Pickard Cambridge esq. who To Stroud.-Fryer, every fri

are lords of the manor, Miss Purnell, of Stancombe Park,
Stinchcombe, and Sir 'Lionel Edward Darell bart. of Fre-

Gower Mrs. Alma cottage schooners, Ketches & pilot boats Jackson Cecilia (Mrs.), coal merchant

Hall Rev. Robert M:A. The Vicarage &c. for the Bristol channel James Charles, barge owner

COMMERCIAL. Field Charles A. coal merchant &; Roberts William, farmer

Blakemore James, builder ship owner, &; sec. for the Saul Rudge Edward, tai:or

Boulton Thomas, builder &; contractor Coasting Insurance Society Lim.&c Sims William, ship &; boat builder &;

&c.; estimates furnished, repairs Field Rubert, ship owner &; master sailing vessels &; p:easure boats of

executed mariner, Fair view aU kinds

Cam Eliz8 (Mrs.), barge owner Gabb George,shoeing & general smith, Silvey William, barge owner

Clark Harriett (Mrs.), beer retailer wheelwright, agricultural imple- Smith John, barge owner

Dangerfield Eliza (Mrs.), grocer ment ma.& repairer, iron fencing &c ""-arren George, barge owner

Davis John, barge owner Gardner Joseph, beer retailer Warren Hy. grcr. & drpr. Post office

Ely Richard, farmer, Saul farm Greenway James, st'one mason White Arthur William, barge owner

Evans Frederick, ship bui:der & Harper Thomas, barge owner Yockney Alfred, ship owner

SELSLEY is an ecclesiastical district formed June 12, in 1888. Stanley Hall is the residence of Mrs. Collier.

1863, out of the parish of King' Stanley; it has a station Stanley Park, the seat of Sir William Henry Marling bart.
at Dudbridge on' ,the Midland r.ailway, and is about 2 D.L., J.P. is a mansion in the Elizabethan style, situated

miles south-west from Str'Jud, 11 south from Gloucester in a finely timbered park of 120 acres. The area is 839

and 104 from London, in the Mid division of the county, acres; the popnlation in 1891 was 737.
Whitstone hundred, Whitminster petty sessional division, Sexton, All Saints, George Bushell.
and in the rural deanery of Stonehouse and archdeaconry Post Office, Selsley. Sidney A. Hague, sub-postmaster.
and diocese of Gloucester. The church of All Saints~ Letters through Stroud, &; are dispatched at 9.30 a.m.
built in 1862, is an edifice of stone, in the Early Deco- &; 5.45 p.m. Posful orders are issued here, but not

rated style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, and paid. Caincross, I mile distant, is the nearest money
a fine gabled tower on the north-west, containing 2 bells order &; telegraph office
hung in 1887: ,there are some good stained windows, and Wall Box, Stanley Hall, cleared at 7.45 'lI.m. &; 5.30 p.m
sittings for 240 persons. The register dates from the Church of England Schools (mixed), bujIt, with master's
year 1863. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value house, in 1865, by the late Sir S. S. Marling bart. for

£215, with residence, in the gift of Sir W. H. Marling 180 children; avel'1lge attendance, 90; Richard Sykes,
bart. and held since 1891 by the Rev. Edward Francis master; :Miss Frances Bell, infants' mistress
Williams Hudson M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cam- Railway Station, Dudbridge (Midland railway), James
bridge. Hl're is eo Primitive Methodist chapel, erected Perry, station master

Collier Mrs. Stanley hall King'l\iIiss, Selsley villas :\farling Samuel StanleyJ.P.Stanley pk

Copner lThomas, Cliffordine Marling Sir William Henry bart. D.L., Pitt The ~Iisses, Kenwick house

Godsell Mrs J.P. Stanley park Scorey Rev. Philip George (Baptist),

Gwinnell Mrs. The Knapp l'fa,ling Maj. Percival Scrope V.C., Selsley villas

Gwinnell Charles, Sels1ey villas J.P. Stanley park

Hallett William E. J Marling Chas. Murray 'M.A.Stanley pk COMMEIWIAL.

Hudson Rev. Edward Francis Williams Marling' 1Yilliam John Paley M.A. Beard El1en (Mrs.), shopkeeper
M.A. Vicarage
Stanley park Camm Chas. frmr. Old Church farm

284 SEL~LEY. GLQUCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Oaridge Ephraim, time burner Morris Robert Edward, farm baLiff to Terrett Richard Geo. grocer &; beer ret

Cook George, haulier Sir W. H. Marting bart. J.P Tnck William, gardener to Sir William

Edgar Thomas, shopkeeper Pitt Maria &_ Charlotte CMisses),board- H. MaTting bart. J.P

Hague Sidney A. sub-postmaster ing house, Kenwick house Wall Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer

Hall William, farmer Pool 'Oharles, farmer, Picked Elm White Charles, farmer

Holman Everett Francis, farmer. Red Rose James Lewis, beer retailer White Frederick, farmer

Hill farm Round Jsph. farmer, Stanley Park frm

SEVENHA1l/IPTON is a parish and village and in- Camb. and master of the Cotswold hounds, is a fair

eludes the villages of Brockhampton and Brockhampton specimen of an old-fashioned country seat; the mansion,

Quarry, 2 miles north-by-east from Andoversford station surrounded by well-grown snrubberies, has a secluded
on the Great Western railway and 7 east from Chelten- and venerable appearance; the park is studded with

ham, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of grand old trees, and contains a herd of deer. Christian
Bradley, petty sessional division, county court district William Lawrence esq. of Sandywell Park, Dowdeswell,
and union of Northleach, rural deanery of Cheltenham who is lord of the manor of Sevenhampton, and the trus-
'8l1d archdeaconry and dioces~ of Gloucester. The river tees of the late Fulwar John Colquitt-Oraven esq. are
CoIn rises in this parish. The church of St. Andrew is the principal landowners. The soil is clay and light oolite;
an ancient cruciform edifice of stone, in the Early English subsoil, clay and light oolite. The chief crops are wheat,
and Later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, barley and oats. The area is 3,376 acres; rateable value,

south porch and an embattled central tower with a stair £2,120; the population in 1891 was 399.
turret at the south-east angle. containing 3 bells: there

are several mural tablets to John Hincksman, 1774, and HAMPEN is a small hamlet, partly in this parish and

Margaret, his wife, 1816, with others of the family, partly in that of Shipton Oliffe, 2 miles south·east.

1739-96: on the floor of the church is a brass to William Sex-ton, William Pearce.

Lawrence, infant son of Anthony and Culpeper Lawrence. Post Office, Brockhampton.-Charles Barnett, sub-post-
1694. and there are later memorials of the same name: master. Letters through .Andoversf{)rd R.S.O. arrive
the church was restored in 1891- 2 at a cost of about at 7. 2 5 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. Postal orders
£1,4°0 , and affords 150 sittings. The register dates from are issued here, but not paid. .Andoversford is the
the year 1555· The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value
£132, including 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the nearest money order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant
gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1890 by
the Rev. Joseph Storr RA. of London University. There Wall Letter Box, Sevenhampton, cleared at 5.50 p.m.
are two Baptist chapels, one at Brockhampton and another Letters received from Andoversford R.S.O. arrive at

at Brockhampton Quarry. A charity of [,1 is distri- 7· 15 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office

buted to the poor annually in bread. Brockhampton P,ark, is at .Andoversford
the property of the Craven family and now in the occupa- National School (mixed), built in 1870' for II5 children;
tion of Major Edward Henry Green-de Freville J.P., D.L.
average attendan{:e, 70; Charles Capps, master; Mn.
G. Tombs, sewing mistress

SEVE:XHAMIPTON. Humphris Wm. farmr.Whitehall farm Jackson Thos. farmer, S{lUndboro' frm

Beale-Browne Mrs. John, Sevenhamp- Wood Oliver, shoe maker Merrick Richard, head gamekeeper to

ton manor Major E. H. Greene-de Freville

Storr Rev. Joseph B.A. Vicarage BROOKHA},-IIPTON. Nash Job, beer retailer

COMMERCIAL. Greene-de Freville Major Edwa.rd Hy. Pitman Edward, grocer

Andrews Reuben, blacksmith D.L.,J.P. (Cambs.),Brockhamptn.pk Pitts Thomas, shoe maker

:Barnfield Benj. farmer & stone mason Barnett Chas. carpenter, Post office Roberts James, farmer, Oxleaze farm

Barnfield Thos. farmer &; stone mason Combe Clement, tailor Taylor Fanny CMirs.), 'beer retailer

Cook Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Comb~ Geo. Thos. baker &; brewer Trevethan rwilliam Tippit, farmer,

Dollins John, farm bailiff to Col. W. Gillett Lambert, head gardener to Maj. Court farm

Agg J.P. Puckham E. H. Greene·de Freville Williams Neighbour, grocer & farmer

SEZINCOT is a parish, 2 miles south-west from sides at Longborough. Sezincot House, the seat of James
Moreton-in-Marsh station on the Oxford and Worcester Dugdale esq. J.P. lord of the manor and principal land-
section of the Great Western railway, 18 south from owner, is a handsome stone building, in the Indian style,
Stratford-on-Avon and 21 north-east from Gloucester, pleasantly seated in well-wooded grounds, containing a
in the Eastern division of the county, upper division of fine sheet of water; on the east front the house is ap-
the hundred of Kiftsgate, petty sessional division, union proached through beautiful pleasure grounds. The soil is
and county court district of Stow-on-the-Wold, rural clay and gravel; subsoil, clay and oolite. rrhe chief crops
deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Cirencester and dio- are wheat, barley, oats .and roots. The area is 1,413
cese of Gloucester. The ancient church was demolished acres; rateable value. £974; the population in 1891 was
about 1712, and has not been rebuilt-. The register ill 89.

included in that of Longborough. The living is a rectory, The nearest Letter Box is .at Moreton-in-Marsh. Letters
through Moreton-in-Marsh arrive at 10 a.m. Moreton-
attached to the vicarage of Longborough, joint gross in-Marsh, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order &;
yearly value £250, in the gift of Lord Leigh and James telegraph office
Dugdale esq. and held since 1887 by the Rev. John West-
cott Stoneman RA. of the University of London, who re- The children of this place attend the school -at Longboro'

Dugdale James J.P. Sezincot bouse Monement Frank William, agent to Millard Jas. farmer, l.7pper Rye farm

Ackerman John. gamekeeper to J. James Dugdale esq Newton Fredk. farmr. Lower Rye farm

Dugdale esq

SHARPNESS is a port and village, on the eastern Owen, engineers, Mr. T. E. Harrison being the consulting

bank of the river Severn, on a ness or promontory formed engineer; it is 4,162 feet in length, including a viaduct

by a bend of the stream towards the south; it is in the of masonry, 70 feet in height on the north side of the

tithing of Hinton and parish of Berkeley, 2! miles north- river, and a ,swing bridge, 200 feet in length, spanning

by-west from Berkeley, 16 south from Gloucester and 22 the Gloucester and Berkeley canal and the shore on the
north-by-east from Bristol, in the Northern division of south sIde; the bridge proper consists of 21 openings,

the county, Berkeley hundred and petty sessional divi- consisting of bows and girders, carried on piers formed of

'lion, Thornbury union, Dursley county court district, cast-iron cylinders sunk deeply into the rocky bed of the

and in the rural deanery of DUTsley and archdeaconry river and filled with concrete; of the spans or openings 14

and diocese of Gloucester. The Gloucester and Berkeley are 134 feet in width, five have a width of 171 feet each,

ship canal joins the Severn just above the point, and is and over the navigable portion of the river there are two

navigable for vessels of moderate tonnage. This place of 327 feet ea.ch, with a headway of 70 feet above high
was, until 1879, the terminus of the branch of the Mid- water ordinary spring tides, the headway of the remaining
land railway, but in that year the line was carried across 8pans gradually decreasing from 70 to 50 feet. This line
the Severn and continued to Lydney, Coleford and Lyd- shortens the distance from South Wales to Bristol by 30

brook, forming connections at these places with the Great miles, and besides affording- increased facilities for ship·
Western railway. In 189S the line from Berkeley Road ping coal and carrying on the general trade of the dis·
to Lydbrook junction, including the Coleford and Cinder- trict, it furnishes an improved means of communication
ford branches, became the property of the Great Westprn for the extensive traffic maintained between the Forest

and Midland railway companies, and is worked by them of Dean and the south-west of England; the total cost,

as the Severn and Wye Joint Railway. The railway contributed to by the Midland Railway Company and the

bridge, opened by Earl Ducie, Oct. 17, 1879, occupied Sharpness Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navi-

four years in construction, and was built at a cost of gation Companies, amounted to [,4°0,000; the Severn

£200,000, from designs by Messrs. ,Keeling and G. W. Bridge Company is now amalgamated with the Severn

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. SHEEPSCOMBE. 285

and Wye Railway Company. The docks here are exten- Post, M.O. &; Telegraph &; Telephone Office, T.M.O., S.B.
sive, Eituated about half a mile below the old entrance to Parcel' Post &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.-Allan
the canal, and opened November 25th, 1874; they con- Lancelot Marling, l!Ub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
sist of a tidal basin 545 feet in length by 300 feet in Berkeley at 8 a.m. &; via Gloucester at 4.45 p.m.; dis-
width, lock 320 feet by 60 feet, divided inOO two portions patched at 9.30 a.m. &; 12.50, 6.30, 7.30 &; 8.10 p.m
by three pairs of massive iron gates. floating dock 2,200
Wall Letter Boxes: New Town, cleared at 8.55 a.m. &;
feet in length, with a varying width of 200 to 455 feet
6.5 &; 8.25 p.m.; Bridge Road, 8.15 a.m. &; 4. 15 &; 7
and 24 feet in depth, and covers an area of 13! acres, and
graving dook 350 feet in length by 50 feet in width and p.m. week days only
with a depth of water of 15 feet; a cutting 720 feet long
and 150 feet wide connects the docks with the ship canal PUBLIC OFFICERS.
and there are timber jetties extending into the river Assistant Overseer &; Collector of Taxes, Henry Smith
Severn for a distance of 400 feet. The larger ships for Customs Examining Officer, Ford Brown
the port of Gloucester berth here. The chief imports Harbour &; Dock Master, Frederick Field, Dock house
Lloyd" s Agent, Francis Barnard
are grain, timber and petroleum; the exports being
mostly coal, salt and pitch. There are three good hotels, The School (mixed), erected in 1885, at the sole cost of
the Dock Company, was enlarged in 1897 for 200
and a large pleasure ground laid out by the Dock Com- children; average attendance, ISO; & entirely supported
pany. The Bristol Steam Navigation Company run a by the Dock Company; MiljS Elizabeth L. Stockham.
rine of steamers to Hamburg, with geneml Continental mistress
trade. The excursion steamers of Messrs. B. and A.
Campbell, of Bristol, make frequent trips duriug the Railway Station, Leonard Kidd, station master

summer to Weston-super-Mare, Cardiff, Ilfracombe and Conveyance, The Gloucester &; Sharpness Steam Packet
other places. The iron church of St. Andrew was erected Co. run steamers on the Gloucester &; Berkeley canal.
in 1877 at a cost of £soo,and will seat 2S0 persons: between this place &; Gloucester, for conveyance of
there are also Wesleyan and Congregational chapels. passengers &; goods, three times daily each way in
Sharpneslr Point is much frequented by the neighbouring summer and once daily in winter, calling at inter-
inhabitants during the summer months. mediate stations

Addenbrooke Rev. Albert Edward M.A. DowdesweH Frank, canal pilot,New twn Severn Ports Warehousing Company

(dock 'chaplain) Driver Hy.H. agent to G. W. Railway Lim. (Alfd.Woodward,managng.dir)

Field Frederick, Dock house Everett Albert John, dock, master, Sharpness Gas Works (Hy. Wakeman.

Hague William Sharpness Old dock manager)

Hall 'Henry, New town Fear Sophia (Mrs.), Pier View hotel, Sharpness New Docks &; Gloucester &;

Petifer James New town Birmingham Navigation Company

Williams George, New town Field Fredk. dock &; harbour master, (Frederick Field, harbour &; dock

Dock house master), Dock office

COYYZRCIAL. Fox F. F. &; Co. petroleum merchants Sharpness Old Dock! (Albert John

AlIen Alfred, baker, New town Gardner Wm. Jesse, timber merchant Evorett, dock master)

Barnard Francis, Lloyd's agent & steam saw mills; stevedore &; SharpnesS! Parish Library (J. T. Wel-

Barrett Alfred John, stevedore contractor, Sharpness docks born, librarian)

Beard George Thoma9, stevedore &; Gasser Thomas, butcher i& grocer SharpnMs Pleasure Grounds (Josepb

lighterman Gloucester Co-operative Society Lim. Sturge, keeper)

Brown Gopsill &; Son Limited, sack (E. Taylor, sec.), grocers &; provi- Skidmore Caleb, shopkeepr. New town

contractors sion dealers, New town Sma1l"Wood Brothers, boot &; shoe mas.

Brown Ford, custom house officer Green, Cole & Co. ship brokers k outfitters

Brown Joseph, carpenter Hague William, dock inspector Smallwood Harry, refreshment rooms.

Calway William, manufacturer of Hodder &; Co. butchers &; grocers Smith Brothers, outfitters, boot &.

foods &; appliances for game, poultry, Hodder Hartly, ship broker &; farmer shoe warehousemen &; drapers

&c. & of portabie buildings for all Horlor Edwin, marine surveyor Smith Ellen (yTS.), butcher,New town

purposes Hudson & Co. sack contractors Smith Henry, assistant overseer &; col-

Capital & Counties Banking Co. Lim. James Henry R. ship broker ledor of taxes

(sub-branch to Gloucester) open Johns &; Son, ship chandlers Smith J oseph, agent to Midland Rail-

daily 11.30 to 2.45 (George. Pike, Lane (S.W.)Round &; Co.warehousemn way Co

manager); draw on head office, 39 Marling Allan Lancelot, stationer, Smith Richard, draper, New town

Threadneedle street, London E C Post offioo . Taylor .Jane (Mrs.), Severn Bridge &.

ehadborn, Son &; Taylor, stevedores Marling Frank Geo. pilotage collector Railway hotel

.co.Coleman Wm. Hy. refreshment rooms Marmont Edwd. coal dealer, New town Tully Mhry (Mrs.), grocer, New town
Coal Shipping Office (J. V. Thomas, National (The) Telephone Lim. Tur! Goorge, Bridge coffee house

agen.) Oall room Union Dry Docks Co.Lim.ship enginrs

Cook George, stevedore Old Sharpness Hotel (Albert Reece, Walden John, hairdresser, New town

Coppola Leopold &; Co. ship chandlers proprietor); good stabling Whitfield John Humphrey, draper.

Cottew James, stevedore Owner Jesse, ship smith &; engineer New town

Onrtis Albert &; Co. chemists, Sharp- Phillips Enos, pilot, New town White Henry, pilot, Sea View villas

negs point Reeee Albert, stevedore &; contractor Whitwill Mark &; Son, ship brokers

DickinsonWilliam Robert,second officer Robbins Charles, grain superintendent, Williams Thos. James, pilot,New town

of customs sampler &; surveyor Willis William, butcher, New town

Dimery Thomas, pilot, New town Rudge Alfred Ernest, boot &; shoo ma

SHEEPSCOMBE is a tithing and village in the parish Methodist chapel, with a burial ground adjoining. Eb-
worth Park is an ancient mansion, the property of the-
of Painswick, 5 miles north-east from Stroud station on trustees of the late Mrs. Welch, and now (1897) un-
the Gloucester and South Wales -section of the Great occupied; the park is about 200 acres in extent. George
Western railway and terminus of a branch of the Midland Clarke Brown esq. is the principal landowner. The soil
railway, and was formed, into an ecclesiastical parish is loamy; subsoil, gravel. The land is chiefly pasturage,.
from Painswick civil parish Nov. 28, 1844; it is in the wheat, barley and oats are grown. The population in 1891
Mid division of the county, Stroud petty sessional divi- was 450.

f;ion, union and county court district, rural deanery of Sexton, Miles Workman.
Bisley and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The Post Office.-MrS'. Ellen Long, sub-postmistress. Let-
church of St. Johft the Apostle, erected in 1820, is a
building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chan- ters arrive from Stroud at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4.15
eel, nave and a western turret containing a clock and p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued here,
one bell: it was enlarged and beautified in 1873, and but not paid. The nearest money order &; telegraph.
has ISO sittings. The register dates from the year 1820. office is at Painswick, 2 miles distant
Wall Letter Box, Three Mile Stone, cleared at 5 p.m.
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £120, with Board School (mixed), under Painswick School Board..
residence, in the gift of f,he vicar of Painswick, and for go children; average attendance, 70; there is So
held ~ince 1895 by the Rev. John Charles Wilcox B.A. of house for the master; George Jolly, master
St. John's College, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive

Ayres John George, Prospect house Sutton Mrs Fern Goorge, plasterer

Bubb Anthony Wilcox Rev. John Charles B.A.Vicarage Gyde Theresa (Mrs.), farmer, Bunnag~

Camps Mrs. Sheepscombe house COMMERCIAL. Halliday Edwin, Butchers' Arms P.H

de Winter Jas. Charles, Greenhouse 10 Boulton Hy. baker, farmer & wheelwgt Hayden Elisha, builder

Ford Mrs. The Green Carter John, baker Light John, beer retailer

:L9ckett IWv. WiCiam B.A. The Grange DickensQn Arthur, farmer, Ebworth. Minchin. Henry, !armer
•

286 SHEEPSCOMBE. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Partridge Josiah Keen, carpenter Smith Edward, blacksmith Vanstone IMary (Miss), shopkeeper
Phipps Phillimore, farmer
Scott Samuel, wheelwright 80lars Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Flock mill West William, Crown P.H

Trotman Geo. farmer, Painswick lodge

SHERBORNE is a parish and village, on the river wooded deer park, 2 miles distant, and 370 acres in

Windrush, 4 miles south from Bourton-on-the-Water extent, containing a splendid herd of deer: the present

station on the Oxford and Cheltenham section of the mal!sion, erected in 1831, is a building of freestone, in

Great Western railway, 14 north-east from Cirencester, the Classic style, with column, of the Corinthian order;
16 east-by-south from Cheltenham, and 3~ east from the principal rooms are spaciouS' and well arranged.
Northleach, in the Eastern division of the county, lower Lord Sherborne is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
division of Slaughter hundred, Northleach petty sessional The soil and subsoil are oalite. The chief crops are
division, union and county court district, rural deanery wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 4,567 acres;'

of Narthleach, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese rateable value, £2,922; the population in 1891 was 516.
of Gloucester, the Cheltenham and Oxford high read .Acting Parish Oerk, Frederick Pitts.

runs through the parish. 'fhis place gives the title of Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B. Express Delivery,
Baron t() the Dutton family. The church of St. Mary Parcel Post, .Annuity & Insurance Office.-Edward

Magdalen, rebuilt about 1850 by the late Lord Sher- Haynes, .sub-postmaster. Letters through North-
borne, is a structure of freestone, consisting of chancel leach R.8.0. arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. ;
and nave and a western tower with spire containing sundays, arrive, 9 a.m.; dispatched, 12.5 p.m

a clock and 6 bells: in the church are some handsome Wall Letter Box, Upper Sherborne, cleared at 4.35 p.m.
monuments to the Dutton family: there are 300 sittings. week days; sundays 12.15 p.m
The register dates from the year 1572. The living is a Schools, built with house attached for the master, in
vicarage, with the vicarage of Windrush annexed, joint 1868, at a cost of [,1,000, by Lord Sherborne, &

net yearly value £288, in the gift of Lord Sherborne, since enlarged for 165 children; average attendance,
and held since 1893 by the Rev. Edward Kirby M.A. of 81; & supported by Lord Sherbome; Vincent Rose,

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, who resides at Windrush. master; Mrs. Rose, mistress
Sherborne Park, the seat of Lord Sherbome J.P. is a Carriers :-.Albert .Akerman, to Shipton station, on tues.
magnificent inclosure of upwards of 300 acres, studded & fri.; & to Burford, sat. & baCK the same day; Wm.
with grand old timber trees interspersed with beeches Hooper t() Bourton-on-the-Water, tues. thurs. & sat.
and elms of modern growth; the Lodge Park is a well- returning same day

Sherborne Lord J.P. Shel'borne park; Game Richd. farmer, Broadmoor farm Scregg vVilliam, wheelwright

& 9 St. James' square SW&; Port- Gray Robert, :resident agent to Lord Singer Robert, farmer, Haycroft farm

land, Travellers' &; White's clubs Sherborne Stevens George W. grocer

S W'London Haynes Edward, shopkeeper,Post office Sutherland George .Martin,farm bailiff-;

COMMERCIAL. Hicks Richard, farmer, Woeful lake Home farm

Hooper William, carrier Townsend .Albert, shopkeeper

Akerman Albert, farmer &; carrier Hope .Austin, blacksmith Tremaine William Hutchings, farmer

Evans John, gamekeeper to Lord Howard Joseph, baker, Sherborne mill Wakefield Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper

Sherborne Mlargetts Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeepr Williams John, estate carpenter

Freeman George, farmer Scott Alexander, head gardener

SHIP TON is a parish, consisting of Shipton Oliffe and day, June 10, 1884: special services are held here on
Shipton Sol1ars, united for all civil purposes by the .Act
34 and 35 Vie. cap. 61; the parish is on the river CoIn, 2 Sunday evenings in the summer months: there are 120
miles east from .Andoversford station on the Banbury
and Cheltenham branch of the Great Western railway, sittings, which are free and unappropriated. The register
6 west-north-west from Northleach, and 7 south-east from dates from the year 1653. Here is a Primitive Methodist
Cheltenham, in the Eastern division of the county, hun- Chapel, erected in 1889. Limestone is very abundant
dred of Bradley, petty sessional division, county court in this parish. William H. Fletcher esq. who is lord of
district and union of Northleach, rural deanery of North- the manor of Shipton Oliffe, John Peachey esq. of Eber-
leach, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Glou- noe, Petworth, lord of Shipton Sollars, Thomas Handy
cester. The church of St. Oswald if'! an edifice of stone, esq. and the rector are the principal landowners. The
in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consist- soil is clayey; -subsoil, stony. The chief crops are wheat,
ing of chancel, nave, south transept and a western turret barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,816 acres; rate-
containing 2 bells: there is a piscina and portions of able value, £1,399; the population in 1891 was 354 civil,
sedilia in the chancel: there are ·sittings for 100 persons. 340 ecclesiastical.
The register dates from the year 1655. The livmg is a
rectory, to which that of Shipton Sol1ars was annexed in By Local Gbvernment Board Order 14,578, Mar. 25,
1776, joint net yearly value £313, arising from 454 acres, 1883, a. detached part of Compton .Abdale, known as
allotted to the rector in lieu of tithes on the inclosure Upper Hampen Farm House and Cottages was transferred
t() Shipton for civil purposes.
of the common in 1793, with residence, in the gift of
'William Peachey esq. and others, and held since 1883 by Parish Clerk, Charles Makepeace.
the Rev. Charles Pugh, of St. Bee!. The church of St. Letters through Andoversford R.S.O. arrive at 7 a.m
Mary the Virgin is a small building of stone, in the
Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.50 p.m. week days' only.
Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel and nave and a .Andoversford, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money
small western bell turret containing I bell: after having
&; telegraph office
been closed for 20 years, it was restored in 1884 by Mrs. School (mixed), built in 1876, for 50 children; average
Pugh, at a cost of £ISO, and reconsecrated on Wednes-
attendance 40 ; Miss Eda I. Handsford, mistress

Carrier, Charles Makepeace to Cheltenham, tues. thurs.
&; sat

Clark John, The Villa Booth Moses, farmer, Glebe farm. Handy John. farmer
Pugh R~v. Charles, Rectory
Clifford John, shopkeeper Handy Thomas, landowner & farmer,
COMMERCIA.L.
Denley John, baker Hampen
AlIen &; Stratton, farmers,
Hampen Fletcher George B. farmer Harwood Wickcliffe Jas. baker & frmr

Ilee James, carpenter Upper Fletcher William Hinton, farmer &; Hope Henry, farmer, :Square ditch
Berry George, blacksmith
landowner, Manor farm Makepeace Ohas. shopkeeper &; carrier

Gegg George,shoe maker & rate collctr Pinchin William, cowkeeper

Handy Edward, farmer Robbins James, Frog Mill inn

SHIPTON MOYWE is a village and parish, 1~ miles end of the south aisle are several monuments to the
east from Bath, Tetbury. and Cirencester road, and on Estcourt family: in 1877 the west window was filled

the Wiltshire border, 2! miles .south from Tetbury ter- with stained glass, by members of the Estcourt family,

minal station on the branch of the Great"Western rail- to the memory of the Right Hon. T. H. S. 8otheron-
way from Kemble Junction, anel 3~ north-west from Estcourt M.P. who died in 1876. '!'w() candelabra of
Malmesbury terminal station of the branch of the Great bras·s and iron have },een presented in memory of the
Western. railway from Dauntsey, in the Eastern division Rev. Edmund Hiley Bucknall-Estcourt, rector of Eck-
of the county, Longtree hundred, Tetbury petty sessional ington, Derbyshire d. 1874. The church was rebuilt,

division and union, Malmesbury county court district, with the exception .of part of the north aisle, in 1864,
rural deanrey of Stonehouse and archdeaconry and under the direction of the late Mr. T. H. Wyatt, architect,
diocese of Gloucester. The church {)f St.. John the and has ,350 sittings. The register of baptismil and

Baptist is an edifice of stone in the Early English and burials dates from the year 1570; marriages, 1587. The
Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, living is a rectory, net yearly.value [,260, together with

a'aisles, north porch, and an embattled tower at the 80uth~ 96 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of G. T. J.

w~t angle contaiDini G bells: in a chapel. the east . 8outheron-Estcour~ esq. and held since 18SG by tbe Rev.

DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. SHlREHAMPTON. 297

Thomas Gildart Golightly M.A. of Brasenose College, Sexton, Edward Minchin.
Oxford, and Hon. Canon of Gloucester. There are
charities of £18 yearly value. Estcourt House, a rectan- Post &; Parcel Office.-Mrs. Sarah Jeffery, sub-postmis-
gular mansion of considerable size, surrounded by a
park of 340 acres', is the seat of George Thomas John tress. Letters through Tetbury arrive at 9 a.m.; dis-
Sotheron-Estcourt esq. 1'I.A.,. D.L., J.P. who is lord of the
manor and chief landowner. The soil is a mixture of patched at 10.45 a.m. &; 5.55 p.m. Postal orders are
loam and clay; subsoil, stiff clay and oolite. The chief
crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,252 issued here, but not paid. Tetbury is the nearest
acres; rateable value, £2,6J:I; the population in 1891
money order office &; the telegraph office is at Easton
was 380.
Grey, 2 miles distant •

Kational School (mixed), for 90 children; average atten-

dance 50; with small endowment &; a house for the

mistress; :Miss Harriet Rogers, mistresa

Garlick Mrs. Clematis cottage Barnneld William, head gardener to Jeffery Sarah (Mrs.), grocer &; beer

Golightly Rev. Thomas Gildart M.A. G. T. J. Sotheron-Estcourt esq retailer, Post office

(rector, &; hon. canon), Rectory Estcourt Estate Office (Matthew Hy. Knight In.Chas. farmer,West End fm

Hillier Mrs Gray, agent) Mills William, farmer, Brick kiln

Sotheron-Estcourt George Thos. John Frankt<ln Henry Charles, farmer Poole Richard, haulier

M.A., D.L., J.P. Estcourt house Gray Matthew Henry, agent to G. T. Weller William, farm bailiff to G.

J. Southern-Estcourt esq.Estate off T. J. Sotheron-Estcourt esq

COMMERCIAL. Hayward William, farmer &; assistant Westlake Samuel James, farmer,

Beaven Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Ivy- overseer &; clerk to parish council, Street f~rm

House farm Pond farm Westlake Wait. In. frmr. Clayfield frm

IBeaven George Edward, farmer
Jenner Nathaniel, farmer, Cranmore

SHIREHAMPTON is a picturesque and increasingly tles lor the relief of the poor. Philip Napier Miles esq.

populous parish on the shore of the river Avon opposite who is lord of the manor, and the Rev. Edward Lanoley

r.ill, in Somerset,hire, and is bounded on the west by that M.A. vicar of .AIveston, are the principal landowners. The

rn-er, and protected from the north-east winds by the soil is gravelly; srtbsoil, limestone. 'Ihe land is principally

Kingsweston hills and park: it has a station on the in pasture. The area is 1,346 acres of. land, 17 of water,

Clitton Extension Joint Line (Great Western and Mid- 55 of tidal water and 295 of foreSlhore; rateable value,

land) railway, and is 5 miles north-west from Bristol and £8,3II; the population in 1891 was 14,589,

125 from London, in title Southern division of the county,

llaTton Regis union, Lawford's Gate petty sessional divi- Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery,

sion, llrist<ll county court district, rural deanery of Staple- Parcel Post &; Annuity & Insurance Office.-Matthew

ton and archdeaconry and diocese of Bristol. Shirehamp. Love Chubb, sub-po5'tmaster. Letters arrive from

ton was formerly a tithing in Westbury-on-Trym parish, Bristol at 7.58 a.m. & 1.38 &; 5.58 p.m.; dispatched at

but by Local Government Board Order 18,126,Mar.25, 1885, 10.55 a.m. &; 5.5 &; 7.58 p.m.; sunday, arrive 7.21

• it was made a civil parish; the ecclesiastical parish was a.m.; dispatched, 7.58 p.m. Wall Letter Boxes, Lower

formed in 1844. The church of St. Mary is a cruciform Shirehampton, cleared at 9.10 a.m. &; 2 & 7.30 p.m.

building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of week days only; &; West Town at 8,45 a.m. &; 7.15

chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, transepts, north p.m. week dayS' only .

porch and a western turret containing a clock and 2 bells: ~ational School (mixed), built & enlarged in 1892, for 323

the church was restored in 1890, at a coS'li of £550, and children; average att-endance, 250; James Wedmore,

affords 430 sittings: in the churchyard is a monument master; Miss' Annie Wedmore, mistresS'

to Captain Shaw, the "bold privateer." The register I Haven Master, Capt. Edward Thornborough Parsons

dates from 1727, and is partly included in that of West. County Police Station, Edward James Arkell, acting sergt.

bury-on-Trym. The hving is a vicarage, net yearly value I & I constable

£,150, with 7 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Railway Station, George Pinkerton, station master

the Bishop of Bristol, and held ,since 1889 by the Rev. An omnibus runs twice daily tQ &; from Bristol, calling at

Alfred James Harvey M.A. of ,the University of London. the George inn

Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are several small chad- Carrier. John Dance, daily to Bristol, excepting wed

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Whitefoord Mrs. Springfield Howes Joseph, butcher

Wright Mrs. Avonmead Howse George, shopkeeper

Amos Mark, 1 Claremont villas Wright Mrs. The Hermitage Hull Charles Henry, 'baker

Ashley James T. Chester villa Kendall Sarah (Mrs.), boot maker

Banks Alfred, Park villa COMMERCIAL. KendalI William Henry, beer retailer

Berth J ames Henry, 2 Claremont vils Barton WaIter, farmer Kiddle James, wheelwright

lJush Francis, 2 Amor villas Belton Ann(Mrs.),apartments,Avon ho Kilminster Wm. frmr. Bradley farm

Cartmer Capt. George, The Wylands Biddle Edwin James, sloop owner Lait George, farmer

Chaplin Mrs. Avonmere Capital I&; Counties Bank Limited Lambrick Frederick, beer retailer

Chapelle Joseph, William, Avon cot (sub.branch) (J. E. Mills, mana- Little Frederick S. B. George hotel.

Clayton Robert, Berkeley villa ger; open 2 to 3.30 daily, draw on See advertisement

Collins George head off.3t9Threadneedle st.Lndn.EC Llewellyn Alfred, hair dresser

Cox Mrs. Avon villa ChubbMatthew Love, grocer, & agent Norris Matthew, beer retailer

Cross Mrs. Boskenna for W. &; A. Gilbey Limited, wine Peters Jarman, assessor &; collector

Davis George, Burlington house &; spirit merchants, Post office of income tax, & assistant overseer

Dix Charles tJ. Sunnyhill Codrington John Robert, butcher Pike Wm. In. Hope i& Anchor inn

:Elliott Mrs. Priory house Caleman George, boot maker Poole Frank, shipping reporter, Lamp-

Gore Hugh Holmes, Ash ho. John st Cook George, shopkeeper, West town lighters

ltarding Henry Percy, Station road Coombs William, shoe maker Priest John &; Son Lim. ironfounders

Barvey Rev. .AIfd.Jas.M.A.TheVicarag Cox Samuel, Lamplighters' inn Pullen Edward Robert, undertaker

Bodges Charles Ebenezer, Hill side emtis &; Harvey (John '0. Pitt, mana- Richards William, market gardener
ger), gunpowder magazine Scott Thomas .Alfred, beer retailer
Hook Stephen, 2 Elm villas

Lees Charles, Rosemorran Dance John, shopkeeper & carrier Sharpe Thomas, coal merchant .

Lucas Mrs. I The Terrace "Davis Charles, chimney sweeper Shirehampton Library &; Reading

Moore George M.D.; R.N. PenIea Davis Geo. builder, see Stride &; Davis Rooms (Rev. A. Harvey, sec)

Morgan Frederick, Chudleigh house Davis William, painter Siderfin Edwin, linen draper

Norris G. Goodwin, Minto house Else Anme (Mrs.), shopkeeper Simmonds Eliz8 (Mrs.), shopkeeper

1'oole Francis Robert, 1 Amor villas Evans Wm.Lewis, grocer &; beer retlr Stride & Davis, builders &; contrac-

Princep John, Beech villa Farr Jas. farmer, Barrow Hill farm tors. Offices

Raban Miss, Pembroke road Flower John, mason Stride tAlbert, builder

Robson John, Fernbank villa Fuller In. Richard, oil &; color stQres Temperance Hall Society (Frederick

Sandell Mrs. 2 The Terrace Glossop George Edward, ch1!mist Morgan, sec)

'Sharpe Thomas, I Elm villas Grey Ernest Thos. frmr. Sunnyhill fm Thatcher Isaac Capel, butcher

'Stride Albert, South view Hack Mary .Ann (Mrs.), shpkpr.& bakr Thurston In. Herbt. Gingell, farmer

Stride Edmund, Richmond villa Hart Harriet (Mrs.) &; Joseph, Veale Hannah (Mrs.), dairy

Stride Jared, Fonthill villa farmers, Battery farm Walker Ivor A. estate agent to P.

Symes John, 3 Park villas Heard George, mason N. Miles esq. J.P. King's Weston

Thompson Wm. Edwd. Twyford ho Hewlett .Alex. nurseryman &; florist- estate office
Tozer Capt. Morgan P.C. Narford ho Hill Edward .Albert, greengrocer Warry Eliel, general smith

Tuckett Mrs. Myrtle hall Hodge Charles, carpenter &; refresh. Weeks William, shopkeeper

Walker Ivor A. Walton house ment rooms Whelpton William H. farmer

Wetherman Mrs. The Cottage Howden Henry, tai!or, The Terrace Wybourne Thos. shoe ma.Pembroke rd

288 SHURDINGTOY. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

SHURDINGTON is a parish and village, pleasantly well-wooded grounds of about 154 acres. O:ll. Godfrey,
situated on the road from Cheltenham to Bath, 2 miles Juhn Sadler esq. Miss Woodward and Mrs. E. Denny, of
souih-west from Leckhampton station on the Cheltenham Kempley, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay;
and Bourton branch of the Great 'Western railway, and 3 subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are barley, wheat.
south-west from Cheltenham. in the Northern division of beans and roots. The area iSl 1,033 acres; rateable value,
the county, upper division of the hundred of Dudstone £2,914; the population in 1891 was 193 civil, and 442
and King'S' :Barton, Cheltenham petty seSlSional division, ecelesiastical.
union and county court district, rural deanery of Chetten.
Sexton, Elisiha Phillips.

ham and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The Little Shurdington was transferred. from the parish of
:Badgeworth to that of Shurdington under the provisions
church of St. Paul is an edifice of stone, in the Early of the "Local Government Act, 1894."
English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle,
&luth porch and a western tower, with lofty oSpire, con- Post Office. - Baynham Newmaroh Coopey, sub-post-
taining one bell: the church waS' extensively repaired in master. Letters arrive from Cheltenham at 8 a.m.;
dispatched at 6.15 p.m.; sunday at 10.50 a.m. Postal
1852, partly at the expense of the Rev. Harry Wright, orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
then curate, and has 200 sittings. The register dates money order & telegraph office is at Moorend, Chelten.
ham, 2 miles distant
frcm the year 1604. From 1723 to 1789 entries were made
in the registers of Hadgeworth. The living is a vicarage, Wall Letter Hox, The Laurels, cleared at 6.30 p.m. & 11.5
net yearly value £145, including 9 aeres of ~lebe, with a.m. sundays
residence, in bhe gift of the Rev. Alfred William Ellis
National School (mixed), built in 1839, &; enlarged in 1890,
Viner RA. vicar of Badgeworth, and held since 1887 by for 120 children; average attendance,85; Miss· Chiverall.
mistress
the Rev. William Purton M.A. of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge. The Greenway, the residence of Col. Albert
Henry Godfrey J.P. is a. handsome mansion, standing in

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Hitch James, farmer, Shurdington hI>

Austwick John Harwood, Shurd- Burrows John, farmer, Chargrove frm Jones Martha (Mrs.), dress maker,

ington lodge Burrows Wiliiam, farmer. 'Dutch villa Yew Tree villa

Bishop William Clark WaIter, plasterer MacVitie ,& Gardner, grocers

Godfrey Col. Albert Henry J.P. The O:lok Elizh. (Mrs.), laundress.Rose cot Organ Wiliiam, builder &; carpenter

Greenway Ooopey :Baynham Newmarch, wheel- Patten WaIter, butter dealer

Gould Mrs. Hafod wright, Post office Pick Job, wheelwright &; blacksmith

Gover Mrs. Chargrove houae Coopey William, wheelwright Price Ann (Miss), laundress

Gray Joseph Wm. Cleveland villa Fry Frederick, King's Head P.R Ralph EIlen (Mrs.), laundress

Green Mrs. West villa George Charles, carpenter Sadler Caroline (Mrs.). farmer. Littll}

Holborow John, The Laurels Griffett John Charles, farmer &; Shurdington

Purton Rev. William M.A. Vicarage fruiterer, Oak Villa farm Sealy James, farmer, Greenway~

iRatcliffe William D. The Willows Heming William, market gardener Little Shurdington

Sadler John, The Lawn Hending Joseph, shpkpr. & gen. dlr Smith Henry, New inn &; shopkeeper

Sadler Mrs. John, Linden cottage Hewinson James Thomas, farmer, Thomas John, Bell inn &; baker

Welch Ernest Fredk. Chargrove lawn ShurdingtDn farm Tombs John, farmer, lPoplar farm

SIDDINGTON is a village and parish, three-quarters glebe, given in lieu of tithe, with residence, in the gift of
of a mile from Cirencester station on the Midland and
South West Junction railway, and 11 south-by-east the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1887 by the Rev.
frem Cirencester, in the Eastern division of t1he county,
I.undred of Crowthorne and Minety, Cirencester petty William Henry Mills M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge.
sessional division, union and county court distrid, and in
the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Cirencester and The charities are of £6 17s. 4d. yearly value. Earl
diocese of Gloucester. The river Churn and the Thames
and Severn canal run through this parish. The church Bathurst, who is lord of the manor, Robert Daubeney
of St. Peter is a small building of 'stone in the Norman
and Early English styles, with Decorated and Perpendi- esq. Christopher Howly esq. of Siddington House, Mrs.
cular insertions, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays,
Blunsome and Messrs. J efferieSl and Son are the principal
north aisle, south porch and a south-west tower, with
spire, containing 6 bells: there is a marble monument lanr1owners. The soil is stone brash (oolite) and clay;
to the Hon. Benjamin Hathurst M.P., F.R.S. of Lydney,
d. Nov. 5, 1767: the> .chancel contains two stained win- subsoil, rocky and in places marl. The chief crops ar&
dows, a piscina, sedilia and an aumbry; the south door-
way and chancel arch are fine examples of Norman work. wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 2,II6 acres
the church was thoroughly restored in 1875, and reopened
12th August in that year, and has 400 sittings. The of land Ilnd 21 of water; rateable value, [2,704; thE}
register dates from the year .,.670' The living is 8 rectory,
net yearly value £300, arising chiefly from 300 acres of population in 1891 waS' 571.

Parish Clerk Alfred Hobbs
'.
Post Offic.e. - Alfred. Hobbs, sub-postmaster.. Letters
are receIved from Clrencester at 7:15 a.m.; dIspatched
at 6.1.3 p.m. Postal oriers are Iflsue~ lere, but not
r Tlhe nearest m?ney order offi~e IS' ~t Watermoor

paId.

& telegraph office at Cuencester, 2 miles dIStant

National School (mixed), built in 1860 & enlarged in

1892, for 120 children; average attendance, 96; Henry

Wager, master

Adamthwaites John, Siddington ldg Durham William farm bailiff to Wm. Painter Richard Hasson, farmer

:Bowly Christr. J.P. Siddington house Lupton Adamthwaite esq Plummer William Matthews, farmer

Haygarth Edward Brownlow, Bidding- Farmer James, farmer, Barton farm &; overseer

ton manor J effereys Frederick, shopkeeper i'illing Samuel, blacksmith

Mills Rev. Wm. Hy. M.A. (rector) Jefferies John &; Son, seed mers. &c Tilling Solomon, Greyhound inn

Southwell Viscount, Siddington hall Millington John, carpenter Timms Charles, farmer, Church farm

COMMERCIAL. Plummer .A.rthur, assistant overseer &; VVall Alfred, grocer

Hrain In. Waine, frmr. Dry Leaze fm clerk to rural council

SISTON is 81 parish and village, I mile and a half east Fipnnes Boughton :Kewton Dickenson is lord of the manor
and chief landown17, and resides at Siston Court, a fin&
from Mangotsfield stati:m on the Midland railway, 6 north· stone mansion in the Elizabethan ~tyle. The soil i!J
east from Bristol, 9 north-west from Bath and III from loamy; subsoil, chiefly lias rock and coal. The chief crops:
Lcndon, in tho Southern division of the county, Puckle- are wheat ond about one-half pasture. The acreage is
church lhundred, petty sessional division of Lawford's 1,827; rateable value, £5,640; the population in 1891
was 1,200, but excluding that part of the parish in th&
Gate, Keynsham union, Bristol CQunty court district, rural ecclesiastical parish of Warmley, is 375.

deanery of Bitton and archdeaconry and diocese of :Bristol. OVERS was a R.oman settlement.

The church of St. Anne is an ancient building of stone in Sexton, Thomas Gay.
th.e Norman style, consisting of chancel. nave, sout.h po~ch
WIth Norman doorway, and a western tower, WIth pm-
nacles, containing 6 bells: there is a leaden font of Norman

date: four of the windows are stained: the church was Letters from Bristol, via Mang-otsfield, arrive at 8 a.m. &;.

restored in 1887, at a cost of £850, and affords 120 sit- 4 p.m. Pucklechurch is' the nearest money order &;
tings. The register dates from the year 1577. The living
is a rectory, net yearly value £190, includin~ 16 aeres of telegraph office, about Il miles distant
glebe, with residence, in ihe gift of Major Fiennes B. N.
Di{'kenson, and hpld since 1878 by the Rev. William Wall Letter Box, Siston court, cleared at 10.15 a.m. &.

Addington Taylor RA. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Major 7.35 p.m
KationaJ School (mixed), built in 1837, for yo children;.

average attendance, 42; Mrs. Agnes Gabb, mistress

Brook's Mrs. Siston hill Manslfield Mrs. Rodway cottage COMMERCIAL.

Dickenson Major Fiennes Houghton Taylor Rev. William Addington RA. Bond John, farmer

Newton, Siston court Rectory Gibbs Robert, farmer, North Mead:

nffiECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. SLAUGHTER (UPPER). 289

Godwin Thomas, farmer Stainer Mary (Mrs,), frmr. Bridge fm Toghill Thomas, jun. farmer, Little

Jefferis Joseph, carpenter Stone William, frmr. Siston Hill frm Brooks farm

Lacey John, farmer, Mount court Taylor 'George I. B. farmer, Mill frm Wood James, farmer, Overs farm

Lear George F. Griffin inn Toghill T~omas, farmer, ~rook farm \-Yooton Wm. frmr. Webb's Heath fm

Pearce Thos. John, frmr. Lodge farm

THE SLAD i;; a village, and was formed Dec. 17, 1844, corporated with this parish. The Congregational chapel

into an ecclesiastical parish from the parish of Painswick, wasl erected in 1867 at 6 cost of £550, after designs by
from which it is I! mile~ south-east and 2 north-by-east Messrs. G. Bidlake and James Tait, of Wolverhampton.
from Stroud stations on the Great Western and Midland 'Dhe Grove, a modern mansion, waS' rrebuilt in 1846 by the
railways; it is on the il"oad from Strcud to Cheltenham, late William Capel esq. and is now the property and resi-
in the Mid division of the county, Stroud petty sessional dence of his alU, Lieut."Col. William Capel J.P.; the
division, union and county court district, and in the rural grounds are attractive, and on the north side is a fine

deanery of Bisley and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou- beech "Vfood. Robert L. Townsend esq. Lieut.-Col. Capel
cester. The church of Holy Trinity, erected in 1833, is and Samuel Wathen esq. are the chief landowners. The
a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting soil is loamy; 'subsoil, gravel and rock. The chief crops

of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, west porch and are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,555 acres; the
a western turret containing a clock, erected in 1887, and population in 1891 was 1,884.
one bell: the east window is ,stained: a pulpit of Pains. Post Office.-William Henry Brown, sub-postmaster. Let-

wick freestone and red Devonshir/3 marble waS' erected in ters viii Stroud arrive at 7.35 a.m. &; dispatched at 5.20
1887, in memory of Miss Caroline Louisa Croome: there p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued here,
are sittings for about 350 persons. The churchyard was but not paid. The nearest money order offices are at

some time since enlarged by the addition of half an acre Uplands & Stroud & telegraph office at Stroud, 2 miles
of land given by the late Thomas M. Cl'oome esq. The disiant

register dates· from the year 1833. The living is a vicar- Wall Box, Brown's hill, cleared at 5.15 p.m. daily, sundays
excepted
age, net yearly value iU5, with residence, in the gift of
Beard School (mixed), under PainSlWick School Board,
the vicar of Painswick, and held since 1894 by the Rev. built, with mistress's residence, in 1838, for 80 children;
John Bevan M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. .All Saints
(Upllinds), a district in the parish of Stroud, has been in- average attendance, 65; Mrs. Evangeline Davis, mist

Bevan Rev. John M.A. Vicarage Winscombe Miss, Brownshill court Fawkes George Arthur, farmer

Capel Lieut.-Col. Wm.J.P. The Grove COMMEBCIA.L. Gardner Lewis Silk, miller (steam &

Collings Rev. Peter Bonamby M.A. Blackwell Fredk. Geo. stone mason water), PainsWlck road

Steanbridge house Bond John Robert, Woolpack P.H Godsell Edward, farmer

Croome Fredk. Hy. Greenhouse ert British ChesS' Co. (William Moffatt, Haycraft Sidney, logwood dye maker,

Ellicott His Honor Judge Arthur manager), Ro<:k mills Hazel mill

Becher M.A., J.P. The Culls Brown Frank James, painter Hiron William, cattle dealer &; farmer

Hapkins Rev. Ernest Wm. (Cong) Brown William Hy. shopkpr. Post off Mitchell Henry Frank, Star P.H

Moffatt William, Painswick road Cannon Martin Black, assistant over- Selwyn Thomas, shoe ma. & sexton

Stephens Albert, Woodside seer &; collector of rates &; taxes for Trotman Robert, farmer, Down farm

SuttonCharles, Gravel hill Painswick district, &; clerk to Pains- Wathen SLfrmr.&landwnr.Brown's hill

Wathen Samuel, Brown's hill wick parish council, &; insurance agt

SLAUGHTER (LOWER) is a parish and village, M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford, who resides at Bourton.
beautifully situated on the banks of a small stream which The Baptists have 80 chapel here. The public hall and
passes through the village and falls' into the Windrush reading room here, built in 1887 by subscription, will seat
at Bourton, I mile north from Bourton-on-the-Water 200 persons'. The Manor House, iilie seat of CharleSl Al-
station on the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the gernon Whitmore esq. M.P., M.A., J.P. lord of the manor
Great Western railway, 3 oSOuth-west from Stow-on-the- and chief landowner, is a. handsome stone mansion plea-
Wold, 6 north-north-east. from Northleach and 23 east santly situated in the centre of the village. The soil is
from Gloucester; it gives name to the Slaughter hun- stone brash; .subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat,
dred, in the lower division of which it is, and is in the barley 6Ild oats. The area ig 974 acres; rateable value,
Eastern division of the county, Stow-on-the-Wold petty £1,555; the population in 1891 was 231.
sessional division, union and county court district, rural
deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese On Marcih' 25, 1884, by Local Government Board Order
qf. Gloucester. The church of St. Mary is a building of
stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting 14,637, two detached parts of this parish, known as Aston
Mill and Fil'l Farm or Slaughter Hill Farm, was amal-
of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch and gamated with Upper Slaughter.
a western tower, with .spire, containing 6 bells: there are
five stained windows: the church was rebuilt in 1867 at Parish Clerk, Joseph Wheeler.
the sole expense of the late Charles Shapland Whitmore
esq. Q.C.: there are 220 sittings. The separate register Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
dates only fro:n the year 1814; all entries anterior to thill
date were made in the registers of Bourton-on-the-Water. Joseph Avery, sub-postmaster. Letters received
through Bourton-on-the-Water RS.O. arrive at 7 & 8
The liting is a chapelry, annexed, with that of Clapton, a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 12.20 & 6.30 p.m.
to the rectory of Bourton-on-tlhe-Water, joint net yearly Bourtcn-on-the-Water is· the nea.rest telegraph office, 2
value £250, in the gift. of Wadham. College, Oxford, and
held since 1888 by the Rev. Llewellyn Paganus Williams miles distant
National School (mixed), built in 1871, for 60 children;

average attendance, 51; & supported in part by C. A.
Whitmore esq. M.P.; Miss R. A. Small, mistress

PBIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMEBCIAL. Viveash Oriel, road surveyor to the

Drewe Rev. Fras. W.(curate in charge) Bee Frederick Edward, farmer rounty council for Stow-on-the-Wold

Griffin Joseph Bowles George, farmer & North Leach district

Rose Henry E. Bourton Bridge (letters Cambray James Edward, shopkeeper Wheeler Charles, carpenter

received direct from Bourton-on- Keen Tryphena (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wilkins John &. Son, millers (water &

the-Water R.S.O) Matthews Walter Marmaduke, farmer steam) &; bakers

Whitmore CharlesAlgernon M.P.,M.A., Mosson John, mason Wragge George, shopkeeper

J.P. Manor house; &; 75 Cadogan Publio Hall &; Reading Room (Rev. F. Yearp Brothers, butchers &; farmers

place & Carlton club, London S W W. Drewe, hon. sec)

SLAUGHTER (UPPER) is a small parish, in a deep separated from the aisle by a stone screen, is an altar
valley on each side of a.small brook, a feeder of the Wind- tomb to the Rev. F. E. Witts, late rector and grandfather
rush, 2 miles north from Bourton station on the Banbury of the present incumbent, who died in 1854, and in the

and Cheltenham branch of the Great Western railway, 2! chancel is a tablet to Andrew Wanley esq. of Eyford,

miles south-west from Stow-on-the-Wold, 23 east-by- dated 16"88; and a monument to the Rev. Fernando Tracy
north from Gloucester, in the Eastern division of the TraveIl, a former rector, dated 1808: there are brasses
county, lower division of Slaughter hundred, Stow-on-the- to' John Slaughter, ob. 1583; Eleanor, his wife, ob. 1597;

Wold petty sessional division, union and county court dis- and Paris, his son, ob. 1597: the south wall of the chancel
triet, rural deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Cirencester retains a double piscina and sedilia: the stained east win-
and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Peter is a dow was presented in .1882 by the late Rev. Edward

building of stone, in the Norman and Early English styles, Francis Witts, rector here from 1808, and his wife, and in
consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, north 1889 two memorial windows were erected to him by his

chapel, south porch and an embattled western tower, with family: the church was restored in 1877, at a cost 01

pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells: in the chapel, £2,100, aud has sit~ings for 250 persons. The register,

. GLOUC. 19

290 SLAUGHTER (UPPER). GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLy'S

including Eyford, dates from the year 1538. The living is' 2,003 acres; rateable value, £1,762; the population in

is a rectory, net yearly value, from 230 acres of glebe, 1891 was-civil, 320; ecclesiastical, 301.
£158, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1886 by By a Local Government Board Order, r4,637, March 25,
tha Rev. Frands Edward Broome Witts. rvI.A. of Trinity 1884, fWO detached parts of Lower Slaughter, known as
College, Oxford, rural dean of Stow and surrogate. Here Aston Mill and Fir Farm or Slaughter Hill Farm, were
is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1885. The amalgamated with this parish.
charities amount to £35 yearly. Copse Hill, the seat of Parish Clerk, Francis William Collett.
Henry Arthur Brassey esq. up to his decease in 18g1, and 'Vall Letter Box cleared at 12 & 6.10 p.m.; on sundays,
at present occupied by Mrs. Brassey, is a modern stone 10.20 a.m
mansion, built on the crest of a hill, and surrounded by Letters from Bourton-on-the-Water R.S.O. arrive at 9
extensive grounds. The Manor House, now occupied by a.m. & 3 p.m. Lower Slaughter is the nearest money
Mr. \Villiam G. Hanks, was built in the reign of James I. order office. Bourton-on-the-Water, 2 miles distant, is
The rector, who is lord of the manor, and the trustees of the nearest telegraph office
the late H. A. Bras-sayesq. are the chief landowners. The Parochial School (mixed). erected in r846,. & enlarged in
soil is chiefly stone brash, producing good crops of wheat, 1883, to hold 80 children; average attendance, 39;
oats, turnips and barley; subsoil, stone brash. The area Mrs. F. W. Collett, mistress

Brassey Mrs. Copse Hill I Clarke Willoughby, frmr. Kirkham frm Humphries William, cattle dealer
Witts Rev. Francis Edward Broome ICollett Francis William, carpenter, Jefferies Charles, farmer

!M.A. (rector, rural dean & surro- wheelwright & undertaker Mosson George, mason

gate), The Manor Day Benj. bailiff to F. R. V. Witts esq Reynolds John J.P. farmer

Witts Mlrs. The Cottage Guy Albert, blacksmith Roberts Charles Ferguson, sub-agent

'Cambray James, farmer Hall Jordan, carpenter to the trustees of the late H. A.

Oambray Frances E. (Miss), shopkeepr Hanks 1Yilliam C. farmer. Manor farm Brassey esq

SLI:M::BRIDGE is a village and parish, on the Cam I chapel at CAMBRIDGE, built in 18°7, and a Baptist

brook, 1 mile north from Coaley Junction station on the chapel at GOSSINGTON, built in 1877. Charities of

Eristol and Birmingham extension of the Midland railway, about £8 are distributed to the poor yearly. The princi-

4 north from Bursley, 12 south from Gloucester and 1I8 pal landowners are Lord Fitzhardinge. who is lord of the

from London, in the Northern division of the county, upper manor, and the rector. The soil is loam and alluvial;

division of Berkeley hundred, Dursley petty sessional divi- subsoil, gravel; the land is chiefly in pasture. The -

sion, union and county court district, and in the rural area is 3,75° acres of land, 36 of water, 72 of tidal

deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou- water and 409 of foreshore; rateable value, £9,427; the

.cester. The church of St. John the Evangelist is a build- population in 1891 was 872.

o:ning of ~ufa stone, in the .E~rly English, Decorated d SHEPHERDS PATCH, 1 mile north-west, on the Glou-
PerpendIcular styles, consIstmg of <;hancel, clerestoned cester and Berkeley ship canal' GOSSINGTON 1 south'

CAM:..nave of four bay~, a.i~es, south por~h and an embattled MOOR END, three-quarter; .south-west; a~d
'western tower, WIth pmnacles and splIe, together 150 feet BRII>GE half a mile east on the road from Bristol to
in height, and -containing! 5 bells and a clock provided in Gloucest~r are hamlets '
1896 : there are memorial windows to the Rev. Dr. White,
. a former xector, and to the late Mr. and Mrs. !Hopton: Parish derk, Thomas 'Lamb esq.
the stained east window was given by the present rector: .
the oak panelled reredos incloses a copy of the famous
Post, Telegraph & ExpresSl DelIvery Office.-Mrs. Eleanor
picture by Leonardo da Vinci of "The Last Supper," also Th~yers, sub-postmlstr~sil. Letters through Stoneho~se
arIlve at 8. a.m.; dIspatched at $.10 p.m.. Po~t~
. presented by the rector: the church was restored in 1846, orders are ISSUed here, but not paId. Cambndge 19
and has 300 sittings. The register dates from the year the nearest money order office .
1635. The living is a rectory, yearly value £650, arising
from 344 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Post & ~. O. O,! S. B. & AnnUIty. & Insurance. Office,
Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since 1865 by the Rev.
Oharles Henry Ridding M.A. formerly fellow of that col- Cambndge.-MIss Mary Ann DayIS, sUb-postmI~tre~~.
Letters through Stone~ous~, ar,nval, 7. 20 a.m., dI~.
patched, 5..30 p:m. SbmbrIdge IS' the nearest telegraph

_lege. The advowson was originally granted by lVilliam. office, I mile dIstant

Earl of Nottingham, afterwards created, in 1490, Marquess SCHOOLS.
of Berkeley, to the college of St. Marv Magdalen, Oxford, Parochial, Slimbridge (mixed), built for 100 children;
£10 yearly being reserved out of the living as a remunera-
tlOn for a musical commemoration of the college, which average attendance, 60; &> snpported by the rector;
is duly observed by the singingr of an eucharistic Latin Miss Thirza. Pick, mistress
Unsectarian, Cambridge (mixed), built in 1862, for 67
hymn on the top of Magdalen College tower annually, at
·5 a.m. on the 1St of May. There is a Congregationfll children; average attendance, 64; David Charles Moss
RA. master

SLIMlBRIDGE. Merrett Seymour, farmer Griffin Samuel

Davis Mrs Morgan Henry John, builder, Shep- Hadley Mrs

Pearce Miss, Ohurch end herd's Patch Morgan Rev. Lewis Kenfig (Cong)

Ridding Rev. ·Ghas. Hy. M.A. Rectory Pain Albert, farmer, Moor End farm COMMEBCIAL.

Pearce Alfred, baker, Church end Ayton Harry, baker

COMMERCIAL. Pearce Martin Thomas, farmer, King_. Bennett Emily (Mrs.), dress maker

Barton William, blacksmith ston farm Cullimore !Henry, hay ~ straw mer·

Boon Henry Thomas, farmer. Church Price In. Edwd. farmr. The Moor End chant, Kilcrevan bouse

End farm Shipp Thos. farmer, Old Hurst farm Davis MaryAnn(Miss),shpkpr.Post off

Eurnett In. Fras. frmr. Hurst farm Tudor Alfred, shopkeeper Edmonds Henry, Bell P.H

. Cornock John, farmer, Gossington Tudor George, beer retailer Jones John, baker

Oox Robert, horse trainer, Moor end Tudor Martin, Patch Bridge hotel Nelms Emma (Mrs.), White Lion hotl

Cullimore Ambrose, farmer Wager Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Organ Jane (Mrs.), coffee tavern

Foxwell Sarah J. (QMrs.), farmer, Gos- Gossington Peake & 00. timber merchants

sington Watts Joseph, farmer. Rolls court Pearce Thomas, farmer, White house

Hall Henry, road surveyor & assistant Wherrett Joseph, farmer. Street farm Savage Henry, cattle dealer

overseer, Tumpy green Wood Henry, boot maker SavageSarah (Mrs.), frmr. Poplar fnn

. Hall Sophia(Mrs.),frmr.Malthouse frm Workman & Sons, wheelwrights & Stone Henry, wheelwright

Harding Edwd. frmr. Gossington hall agricultural machinists Vick Ebenezer John, farmer

Harris Samuel, farmer, Rectory farm White Josiah Cornock, farmer, Cam.

Hill William Powell, farmr. Moor end OAMlBRIDGE. bridge house

Lord Cornelius, farmer, Hum's farm Bartrum Rev. Edward iStothert RA. "bite Wm. grocer & house decorator

Lord George, farmer, Tumpy green (curate.) Wor}a:nan Orlando, George inn &; smith

SNOWSHILL is a village and pari9h, 7 miles south- porch and a. small western tower containing a clock and
'West from Ohipping Campden station on the Oxford, one bell, inscribed to the Holy Trinity: there are five

Worcester and Wolverhampton branch of the Great stained windows all to the memory of members of the
-Western railway, 6 north-east of Winchcomb, and 9 Marshall family: there are 120 sittings. The register
south-by-east from Evesham, in the Northern division dates from the year 1572. The living is a perpetual
of the county, lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, curacy, annexed to the rectory of Stanton, joint gross

Winchcomb petty sessional division, union and county yearly value £200, in the gift of and held since 1877,
court district, rural deanery of Oampden, archdeaconry by the Rev. Morris Burland Harri!! Burland M.A. of
of Cirencester and diocese .of Gloucester. The church Trinity College, Oxford, who resides at Stanton. .A
of St. Barnabas, rebuilt in r864, is a building of stone in charity of £5 a year was left by So Miss Rushout to pur-

the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south chase blankets for the poor of the parish, to be distributed

DIRECTORY, ] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. OLD SODBURY• 291

•

by the rector. The principal landowners are James Side- Parish Clerk, John Hands.

bottom esq. of Millbrook, Hollingworth, Cheshire, who is Wall Letter Box cleared at 4.45 p.m. Letters are re-

lord of the manor, and Algernon Bertram Freeman-}.<Iit- ceived through Broadway R.S.O. (Wares.), arrive at
ford C.B. of Batsford Park. The soil is brash, subsoil, 8,30 a.m. which is the nearest money order &; telegraph

rock. The chief crops are roots and seeds. The area office

is 2,294; rateable value, £1,106; the population in 1891 National School (mixed), built in 1871, for 60 children;

was 240. average attendance, 40; Mrs. Kate Martin, :mistress

Barnett fura, farmer Keyte .Alfred, stone mason ~eadows John, farmr. Small Thornes

Beard Edwin, beer retailer Keyte John, stone mason Rudd Henry, farmer

Hyatt Benjamin, farmer Keyte William, stone mason Smith David, shopkeeper

Hyatt George, farmer Lovesey David, farmer Stanley Charles, blacksmith

Hyatt George, jun. farmer

LITTLE SODBURY is 1Io parish and village, near 1851 by the Rev. James George Edward Hasluck M.A,

the Bath and Chippenham roads, 4 miles east from Yate of Pembroke College, Oxford. Here is a. Baptist chapel,

iltation on the Bristol and Birmingham .section of the erected in 1890. William Tyndale (1484-1536), the first

Midland railway, 2 east-by-north from Chipping Sod- English translator of the Scriptures from the original
bury, IS north-east from Bristol, in the Southern divi- languages, is said to have resided some time in this

eion of the county, Grumbalds Ash hundred, Sodbury parish, about 1520, as chaplain to the lord of the manor,

petty sessional division, Chipping Sodbury union and Sir John Walsh. Rere are the remains of a Roman en-
<lounty court district, rural deanery of Hawkesbury, arch- campment. Little Sodbury House is noW' a farmhouse.

deaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester. The The nieces of the late Winchcomb Henry Roward Hartley

Great Western railway will have a. station here on a esq. are ladies of the manor; Mrs. Burges and the rector

new line to be called the "South Wales &; Bristol Direet" are the ehief landowners. The soil is clayey pasture;
railway. The old church of St. Adeline, a building of subsoil, clay. The land is pasture and arable in equal
stone, in the Perpendicular style, adjacent to' the Manor quantities. The area is 1,092 acres; rateable value,
House, was disuseli in 1859 on account of its dilapidated £1,221; the population in 1891 was 143.
condition, and the present church ~rected on a more Sexton, William Doherty.
convenient site; this building, which incorporates as far

as possible the design of its predecessor, is an edifice Letter Box cleared at 5. 1 0 p.m. week days only. Letters
()f stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of nave through Chipping Sodbury arrive .at 9.30 a.m. Chip-

(without chancel), north aisle, vestry, south porch and ping Sodbury, 2 miles distant. is the nearest money

an embattled tower with pinnacles at the south-west order &; telegraph office

angle, rontaining the old bell: there are 150 sittings: the National School, erected, with teacher's residence, in

churchyard was formed and inclosed in 1859, there 1876, at the expense of the late W. H. H. Bartley esq.

having originally been no burial ground in the parish. & the rector, aided by grants from the Education

The register dates from the year 1703. The living is a Department &; the Diocesan Association; for 45 chil..

rectory, yearly value £200, including 30 acres of glebe, dren; average attendance, :23; Mrs. Agnes Annie Pres-

with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since ton, mistress

Hasluck Rev. James Heorge Edward Buckle Henry, "\'iood dealer Hatherell Isaac, valuer & land agent &

M,A. Rectory Durham 'I'homas, shopkeeper farmer, Mlanor House farm

.!ish John, farmer, Little Sodbury ho Hatherell Harry, frmr.Winchcombe fm Kelson Thomas, farmer, Church farm

OLD SODBURY is a. parish and village, on the west· Bartleyesq. who are ladies of the manor, and is a mansion

ern side of the Cotswold Hills, 4 miles east from Yate in the Elizabethan style, approached by a lung avenue of

station on the Bristol &; Birmingham section of the Mid- fine trees. Sir Gerald William Renry Codrington bart.

land railway, 2 east-south-east from Chipping Sodbury J.P. of Dodington Park and the nieces of the late W.

and 14 north-east from Bristol, in the Southern division H. H. Hartley esq. are the chief landowners. The soil

()f the county, Grumbalds Ash hundred, petty sessional is mixed; subsoil, clay and limestone. The chief crops

division of Sodbury, Chipping Sodbury union and county are wheat and oats, with about one-third pasture. The

'Court district, rural deanery of Hawkesbury, archdeaconry' area is 3,727 acres; rateable value, £5,383; the popula-

of BriBtol and diocese of Gloucester. The parish is sup- tion in 1891 was 690.

plied with water by the West Gloucester Water Works Parish Clerk, William Redwood.

Co. fro~ wor~s at ~rampton Cott-erell. The So~th Wal~s Post Office.-William Brooke, sub-postmastel'. Letters
llnd BrIstol Direct hne. of the Great Western railway will arrive through Chipping Sodbury at 7.45 a.m.; dis-
pass .thro~gh the pa~~h. The chu!ch of ~t. John the
!JaptISt, slt~a~ed on rlSlng ground, IS an e~lfice of s~one patched at 5.35 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,
but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph
ID th~ Tra~sItIOn, Norma~, and later styles; It was entIrely office is at Chipping Sodbury, 2 miles distant
r~built, WIth the exceptIOn of the tower, 1858, and con- National School (mixed), built in 1869, for about 90
'Sl~ts of a very long chancel, transepts, nave of four bays, children' average attendance 74' George Millership,
rosles, south porch and an embattled western tower ma ter ' ,,

with pinnacles, containing a clock, given in 1887 at a S

cost of £87, and one bell: there are several stained PUBLIC OFFICERS.
windows: the organ was erected in 1877: there is a
'Curious and very ancient wooden monument in the church Relieving Officer for No. I District of Chipping Sodbur)'
dating from 1320: there are sittings for 270 persons. Union, George Smith
The register dates from the year 1695. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value £245, including 1 acre of Registrar of Births &; Deaths, Chipping Sodbury Sub-
district, George Smith

glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter CONVEYANCE.
()f Worces>ter, and held since 1856 by the Rev. Robert
Seymour Nash M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, hon. John Thompson's omnibus to Yate, from Hawkesbury
canon of Gloucester, rural dean of Bawkesbury and sur- Upton, on wed
rogate. Then~ are two Baptist chapels. Rere is a Roman Thomas Andrew'9 omnibus to Yate station, from Luck~
encampment. The Cross Hands inn, on the Bath road, ington, mono & sat
()wes its sign to an ancient coin, with inscription, found Ralph Goulding's omnibus to Yate -station, from Shers-
in the encampment. Belemnites and Nautilites are fre- ton, on thurs

1}uently found on the side of the hill. Lye Grove House, • CARRIER.
the residence of Charles Theodore Jacoby esq. is the pro-

perty of the nieces of the late Winchcomb Henry Howard Reuben TIes, to Badmintcm, from Chipping Sodbury, dail1

HathereU Abraham, Inman's Perrett John Henry, The Brewery Bennewith Thomas, farmer, Lillyput

!Elatherell Mrs Perrett Mrs Bishop Thomas, farmer, Buckets hill

Highnam Miss Sims Edward, Box Hedge villa Brooke Paul, ~arpenter

Holborow Mrs. Old Sodbury houge Wheeler Mrs. Rock house Brooke William, 'Carpenter k joiner,

Ingleby Miss. Down Leaz6 COMMERCIAL. Post office

J~by Chas. Theodore, Lye Grove ho Anstey Ellen (Miss), farmer, Hill ho Cola John, baker

Nash Rev. Canon Robt. Seymour M.A., Batten James, farmer, Upper King Collins John. quarry master &:c

J.P. (vicar, rural dean & surrogate), Grove farm Cooper George, baker

Vicarage Bennett Thom~s Limbrick, Cross Daniell John Charles, farmer, Hll-mp-

Parker Rev. Artlmr James (Baptist) Hands inn, & farmer, Plough farm stead farm

Pelly1f!rs. Down lodge Bennett Wm. Neal, frmr. Coombs End Davis John, shopkeeper

. GLOue. 19*