BOXWELL, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BOXWELL, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Grumbald's Ash, in the county of Gloucester, 5 miles to the W. of Tetbury. Wotton-under-Edge is its post town. It lies near the border of Wiltshire, on the small river Frome, and at an early date had a nunnery, which, it is said, the Danes destroyed. In the parish are some freestone quarries and some plantations of box. It is not far from the Cotswold hills. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, of the value with the curacy of Leighterton, of £350, in the patronage of the Rev. R. W. Huntley, incumbent. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew."

"LEIGHTERTON, a hamlet in the parish of Boxwell, upper division of the hundred of Grumbalds Ash, county Gloucester, 1 mile N.W. of Boxwell, and 4½ miles S.W. of Tetbury. Wootton-under-Edge is its post town. It was formerly a distinct parish. In 1700 a large barrow, situated in this hamlet, was opened by Matthew Huntley, and was found to contain an earthen urn filled with charred human bones. The living is a rectory* annexed to Boxwell, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. There are parochial churches both at Leighterton and Boxwell; the former, dedicated to St. Andrew, has a low square tower containing one bell."

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