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EAST LEACH MARTIN, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"EAST LEACH MARTIN, (or Bouthrop), a parish in the hundred of Brightwells Barrow, county Gloucester, 4 miles N.W. of Lechlade, its post town, and 5 N.E. of Fairford. It is situated on the river Leach, and contains the hamlet of Fyfield. The village, which is small, is wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £150, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is a small edifice, with a tower containing four bells. The charities produce about £2 per annum. There is a National school."

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

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