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BODDINGTON, 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)]
"BODDINGTON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Tewkesbury and Westminster, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles to the N.W. of Cheltenham. It includes the township of Barrow, and was the scene of the final defeat of the Danes by Alfred the Great, in the year 893. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Staverton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. The principal seat is the Manor House, which is surrounded by a moat. A magnificent oak, about 18 yards in girth, formerly stood near the house."

"BARROW, a township in the parish of Boddington, hundreds of Tewkesbury and Westminster, in the county of Gloucester, 5 miles to the S. of Tewkesbury."

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