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OXENTON, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"OXENTON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, county Gloucester, 2½ miles S.E. of Aschurch railway station, and 4½ S.E. of Tewkesbury, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on a branch of the river Severn, and is wholly agricultural. The road between Evesham and Cheltenham passes through the parish. The impropriate tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1774, and the glebe comprises 23 acres in distant parishes. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £68. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient structure, with a square tower. It has lately been restored at the expense of the Earl of Coventry. The Earl of Ellenborough is lord of the manor."

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