COATES, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"COATES, a parish in the hundred of Crowthorne in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles W. of Cirencester, and 2 from the Tetbury Road station of the Great Western railway. The Thames and Severn canal and the Great Western railway pass through this parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £369, in the patronage of the Rev. William Dews, who is lord of the manor. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient edifice. There is a National school. The charities produce £1 per annum."

"TORLETON, (or Tarlton), a hamlet in the parish of Coates, hundred of Crowthorne, county Gloucester, 5 miles S.W. of Cirencester."

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