HUCCLECOTE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HUCCLECOTE, a hamlet in the parish of Churchdown, upper division of the hundred of Dudstone, county Gloucester, 2½ miles S.E. of the Gloucester railway station, its post town, and 6 S.W. of Cheltenham. The hamlet, which is of large extent, is situated on Ermine Street. There are some brickfields. The land is chiefly arable, and the soil clay. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £30. The church, dedicated to SS. Philip and James, has a bell turret. There is a National school for both sexes, also a chapel for the Wesleyans."

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