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KEMERTON, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"KEMERTON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.E. of Tewkesbury, its post town, and 1½ mile E. of Bredon railway station on the Birmingham and Bristol line. It is situated under Bredon Hill, and on the high road from Tewkesbury to Evesham. On the summit of the above hill are the remains of a Roman camp with a deep trench. There are acme excellent stone quarries and several petrifying springs. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure-Act in 1772.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £560. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a stone structure with a square tower containing a clock and Ox bells. It was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in 1850. The parochial charities produce about £15 per annum, the produce of 7 acres of land, left for the repair of the church, with the exception of a small portion, which goes with other small charities to the poor. There is a National school for both sexes, with an endowment of £6 10s. per annum, also a Roman Catholic school. The Wesleyans and Roman Catholics have each a chapel. The principal residences are Kemerton Court and Upper Court. The Rev. John Hopton, of Canon Frome, Herefordshire, is lord of the manor."

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

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