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BARNSLEY, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"BARNSLEY, a parish in the hundred of Brightwell's Barrow, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles to the N.E. of Cirencester, its post town. Freestone is obtained in the district. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £320, in the patronage of Sir J. Musgrave, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are charitable endowments amounting to £15 a year. Barnsley Park, the seat of the Musgraves, to whom the manor belongs, has fine woods. The mansion, which is in the Italian style, contains some frescoes and a number of paintings and other works of art."

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