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HORSLEY, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HORSLEY, a parish in the hundred of Longtree, county Gloucester, 5 miles S. of Stroud railway station, its post town, and 5 N.W. of Tetbury. It is situated near the Great Western railway, and on the Stroud road to Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge. The parish, which is of large extent, contains Chavenage and Nailsworth, with 7 other hamlets. Horsley was formerly a market town, and contains the house of correction, also the old gate of a priory, founded as a cell to St. Martin-du-Tours, but afterwards transferred to Bruton Abbey. At the dissolution of monasteries the site came to the Dennys, from whom it passed to the Stephenses of Chavenage. A portion of the inhabitants are employed in the clothmills, which are set in motion by the numerous streams which intersect this parish. The soil consists of sand and loam on a subsoil of oolite.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £200. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, has a tower containing a clock and five bells. There is also a district church at Chavenage, the living of which is a curacy, value £30. The parochial charities produce about £100 per annum. There is a National and an infant school, the former endowed with £50 per annum. The Baptists and Wesleyans have each a chapel. Chavenage House is an old mansion of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Townsend Stephens, Esq., is lord of the manor."

"BARTON END, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, and hundred of Longtree, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles to the W. of Minchinhampton."

"CHAVERIDGE, (or Chavenage), a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, in the county of Gloucester, 2 miles N.W. of Tetbury. The living is a curacy united with Horsley. Chaveridge Green is a meet for the Beaufort hounds. In the vicinity is Chaveridge House, a fine old Elizabethan mansion built by the Stephenses of Horsley Priory."

"DOWN-END, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles S.W. of Minchinhampton. The living is a curacy annexed to Mangotsfield."

"LATHEREDGE, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, county Gloucester, 3 miles S.W. of Minchinhampton."

"NEWMARKET, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, county Gloucester. 3 miles S.W. of Minchinhampton."

"ROCKNESS, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, county Gloucester, 3 miles S.W. of Minchinhampton."

"SUGLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Horsley, county Gloucester, 3 miles S.W. of Minchinhampton."

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

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