LANCAUT, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Lancaut, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Gazetteers

• "LANCANT, a chapelry in the parish of Tidenham, county Gloucester, 2 miles N.E. of Chepstow, its post town. It is situated on a bend of the river Wye, opposite the grounds of Piercefield. There is no village, only a few detached houses. From various points a view is obtained of the windings of the river between Tintern Abbey and Chepstow. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Wollastone, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The chapel-of-ease is dedicated to St. James. The tithes were commuted in 1810. [NB: LANCANT in Gazetteer -RL 2003]"
  [Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Historical Geography

• "Rectory, united with Highnam since 1922, and with Rudford since 1955. In civil parish of Highnam since 1935."
  (Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)