GREAT WASHBOURNE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"GREAT WASHBOURNE, a parish in the upper division of Tewkesbury hundred, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.W. of Winchcombe, its post town, 6 N.E. of Tewkesbury, and 4 N.E. of Ashchurch station, on the Bristol and Birmingham railway. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £59. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are Sunday and day schools for both sexes, supported by It. Prance, Esq., who is lord of the manor."

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