NORTH CERNEY, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"NORTH CERNEY, a parish in the hundred of Rapsgate, union of Cirencester, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles from Cirencester, its post town and railway station. It contains the tythings of Calmsden and Woodmancote. The living is a rectory in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £654, in the patronage of University College, Oxford. In the vicinity are the traces of a small Roman camp on Ermine Street."

"CALMSDEN, a tything in the parish of North Cerney, hundred of Rapsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 5 miles to the N. of Cirencester."

"WOODMANCOTE, a tything in the parish of North Cerney, hundred of Rapsgate, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.W. of Cirencester."

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