NORTHLEACH, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

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

Correctional Institutions

• Transcription listing results of of cases held at Northleach House of Correction, Gloucester, 1850 and 1851, by Phil Mustoe.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1830 for Northleach, by Ted Wildy.

• Transcription of section of Slater's Directory of Gloucestershire for Northleach, 1850 by Paul A. Best. Added 1 Apr 2006.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Northleach from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Schools

• "Hugh Westwood, Esq., founded a free grammar school in the first year of the reign of Elizabeth, and endowed it with the impropriate tithes of Chedworth, and a messuage and tenement, now producing about £600 per annum, vested by an act of incorporation, passed in the fourth of James I (Ed: 1606/7), in the patronage of the Provost and Scholars of Queen's College, Oxford, who appoint a master, and pay him two-thirds of the annual income, and an usher the remainder. The scholars on the foundation are usually very few; but they are entitled to share with the schools of Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Chipping-Campden, in the exhibitions at Pembroke College, Oxford, instituted by George Townsend, Esq., who also gave property producing £10 per annum for the instruction of twelve poor boys, a similar sum for eighteen poor girls, and an annual sum for apprenticing a poor boy: they are taught in a National school, the Society having aided its erection by a grant of £80."

  (From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary, 1835, very kindly supplied by David Hawgood)