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ASTON-SUB-EDGE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"ASTON-SUB-EDGE, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 1 mile to the N. W. of Chipping Campden, its post town. It lies at the western foot of Bredon Hill, close to the border of Worcestershire. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £204, in the patronage of the Earl of Harrowby. Endymion Porter, to whom the manor was given by James I., was born in this village in 1544."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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