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TIBBERTON, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"TIBBERTON, a parish in the hundred of Duchy_of_Lancaster, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.W. of Gloucester, its post town, and 4 N. of Oake-street railway station, on the South Wales line of railway. The village is situated on the Newent road, near the Hereford and Gloucester canal. The soil consists of a deep loamy clay, with a subsoil of marl. A stream called the Tibberton brook falls into the river Leddon in the adjacent parish of Rudford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £350. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, contains several monuments. The parochial charities produce about £10 per annum. There is a British school and a chapel for the Wesleyans. Tibberton Court is the principal residence. W. P. Price, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner."

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