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HARESCOMB, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"HARESCOMB, a parish in the middle division of the hundred of Dudstone, county Gloucester, 5 miles S. of Gloucester, 11 from Cheltenham, and 3 N. W. from Painswick, and the same distance W. of Stroud, its post town. It is situated near the Bristol railway, and on the high road from Stroud to Gloucester. The soil is loamy and subsoil clay. The village is small and wholly agricultural. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £89 16s. 11d., and a rent-charge of £23 18s. is paid to certain impropriators. The living is a rectory* annexed to that of Pitchcombe, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £153. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient structure. It has a very antique campanile, and two bells. This place was formerly the seat of the De Bohuns. The parochial charities produce about £4 per annum."

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