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ELKSTONE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"ELKSTONE, a parish in the hundred of Rapsgate, county Gloucester, 7 miles S. of Cheltenham, and 8 N.W. of Cirencester, its post town. It is situated near the ancient highway Ermine Street, and contains the hamlets of Cockleford and Combend. Stone quarries are worked for building purposes, the stone being much prized for its peculiar quality of hardening on exposure to the air. A part of the population are employed in a manufactory for bone manure. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester, value £360. The church is an ancient edifice, erected in the reign of Richard II. It is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. Earl Craven is lord of the manor. In the hamlet of Combend, in this parish, were found fragments of a Roman tesselated pavement."

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

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