DOWDESWELL, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"DOWDESWELL, a parish in the hundred of Bradley, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles S.E. of Cheltenham, its post town. It contains the hamlet of Andover, where an engagement took place between the troops of Charles I. and the parliamentarians. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £402, in the patronage of R. R. C. Rogers, Esq. The church is a handsome structure of the 16th century, built in the form of a cross, with tower and spire. It is dedicated to St. Michael, and contains a brass. Dowdeswell House is the principal residence. There are some remains of an ancient entrenchment."

"ANDOVER FORD, a village in the parish of Dowdeswell, hundred of Bradley, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles to the N.W. of Northleach. It lies among the Cotswold hills, and is watered by the small river Isborne."

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