Bourton on the Water

"BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Slaughter, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles to the S. of Stow-on-the-Wold. Moreton-in-the-Marsh is its post town. It is intersected by several streams, which, meeting below the village, form the river Windrush. The parish lies near the confines of Oxfordshire, and contains a Roman encampment on the Fosse Way, where various remains have been found.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, of the value with the perpetual curacies of Lower Slaughter and Clapton annexed to it, of £475, in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. The church, a modern building, partly of the Ionic order of architecture, is dedicated to St. Lawrence. There is a chapel belonging to the Baptists, and a free school, endowed by Collett with an income of £10 a year."

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