HAWLING, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HAWLING, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county Gloucester, 4 miles S.E. of Winchcombe. It is a small agricultural village and parish, situated under the Cotswold hills, about a mile from the road to Stow-in-the-Wold. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £70. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £100. The church, dedicated to St. Edward, is a plain structure with a square embattled tower containing three bells. In the interior are several mural tablets. The Wesleyans have a chapel, and there is a National school. H. T. Hope, Esq., is lord of the manor."

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