WHITTINGTON, Gloucestershire
- Original source material relating to Whittington, and other parishes in
Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the
Gloucestershire Archives.
- "WHITTINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Bradley, county Gloucester, 4 miles
S.E. of Cheltenham. The village is situated under the Cotswold hills. The
surface is undulating, and the lower grounds are watered by the Colne
brook. There are quarries of stone. The living is a rectory in the diocese
of Gloucester and Bristol, value £300. There is a school with a small
endowment."
[Description from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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