CONDICOTE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CONDICOTE, a parish, partly in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, and partly in the hundred of Slaughter, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles from the Addlestrop railway station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, and 3 N.W. of Stow-on-the-Wold, its post town. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £158, in the patronage of the Rev. W. Bishop and others. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient edifice. There are both weekday and Sunday schools. Near the village are the remains of a British as well as of a Roman camp. In Edward III.'s time William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, possessed the manor of Condicote. The Misses Bishop hold the manorial rights."

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