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STONE, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"STONE, a chapelry in the parish of Berkeley, upper division of Berkeley hundred, county Gloucester, 2¾ miles S.W. of Berkeley, its post town, and 4 S.W. of Berkeley railway station. The village is situated on the high road from Gloucester to Bristol. The soil is of a clayey and loamy description. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £80, in the patronage of the Vicar of Berkeley. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient., structure with a tower and five bells. The parochial charities produce about £30 per annum. Earl Fitzhardinge 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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