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WAPLEY, 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)]
"WAPLEY, (or Wapley cum Codrington) a parish in the lower division of Grumbald's-Ash hundred, county Gloucester, 2 miles S.W. of Chipping-Sodbury, its post town, and 2 N.W. of Yate. The village is situated near the Bristol and Gloucester railway. The soil is clayey. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £400, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Sir C. W. Codrington is lord of the manor.""CODRINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of Wapley, in the lower division of the hundred of Grumbald's Ash, in the county of Gloucester, 2 miles S. of Chipping Sodbury. Here is Codrington Court, from which the Codringtons, of Dodington Park, derive their name. The hamlet of Codrington anciently formed a separate parish. The Beaufort hounds meet here."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]