CHARFIELD, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CHARFIELD, a parish in the upper-division of the hundred of Grumbald's Ash, in the county of Gloucester, 2½ miles from Wootton-under-Edge, its post town, and 2 miles from Wickwar. It is a station on the Midland railway. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £351, in the patronage of Sir. J. Neeld, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. James, is an ancient stone structure, of the Gothic style, with several ancient monuments and a hagioscope. There is a Wesleyan place of worship. A school was built here in 1855, by the Rev. R. Jones, the late rector, who likewise left £2,000 for the same, and £300 for the benefit of twelve agricultural labourers, selected by the rector, the interest of which amount is laid out every Christmas in bread and blankets for their relief."

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