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Acton Turville , Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

 

ACTON TURVILLE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Grumbald's
Ash, in the county of Gloucester, 5 miles to the E. of Chipping Sodbury. It
is situated near the Cotswold hills, and the ancient British and Roman road
called Fosse Way. There are traces of a Saxon sanctuary in the parish. The
living is a vicarage united with Tormarton. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary.

 

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