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OWLPEN, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"OWLPEN, (or Oldpen), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Berkeley, county Gloucester, 3½ miles E. of Dursley, its post town, and 5½ from the Berkeley Road railway station. The village, which is of small extent, is wholly agricultural. It is of ancient date, and came through the Owlpens to the Daunts, thence to the Stoughtons, an ancient Irish family. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £149 16s. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Newington-Bagpath, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church, which was rebuilt in 1830 at the cost of the incumbent, is a stone structure with a tower containing one bell. The interior contains several old brasses of the Daunt family. T. A. Stoughton, Esq., is lord of the manor and sole landowner."

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

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