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AMPNEY DOWN, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"AMPNEY DOWN, a parish in the hundred of Crowthorne and Minety, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles to the S.W. of Fairford. It is situated on Ampney Brook, and the ancient British way called Ermine Street, and the Thames and Severn canal, pass within a short distance of it. It boasts a considerable antiquity, its history reaching back to the Conquest. In Domesday Book it is mentioned as belonging to Ralph du Todini. It afterwards passed to the duchy of Lancaster, and through several families of historic name, to the Eliots.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £116, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church College, Oxford. The church, which was erected by the Knights Templars, about the year 1260, is in the early English style of architecture, and has a tower and spire. It contains a monument of Sir Nicholas de Villiers, a crusader, who died in 1294. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Ampney Down House, the seat of the Hon. P. Bouverie, was erected in the reign of Henry VIII. It has been recently repaired."

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

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