Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KINGSWOOD

KINGSWOOD, a village and a parish in Dursley district, Gloucester. The village stands 1 mile NE of carries on manufactures in woollen cloth; and has a post office under Wootton-under-Edge. The parish comprises 2, 350 acres. Real property, £6, 443. Pop. in 1851, 1, 227; in 1861, 1, 061. Houses, 268. The decrease of pop. was caused by depression in the cloth manufacture. The property is divided. The land anciently formed part of an extensive forest, superintended by the constable of Bristol castle. The manor belongs now to R. H. Blagden Hale, Esq. A Cistertian priory, a cell to Tintern abbey, was founded here, in 1139, by William de Berkeley; was removed, for a time, to Rodmorden and Tutbury; was re-founded here in 1170; was given, by Queen Elizabeth, to the Thynnes; and remains of it still exist near the parish church. woollen cloth factories are at Kingswood Mills and Nind Mills; and there is a brewery. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £99.* Patrons, the Parishioners. The church comprises nave, aisles, and chancel; and contains monuments of the Berkeleys and others. There are an Independent chapel, a free school with £50 a year, and charities £149.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kingswood CP/AP       Dursley RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Kingswood By Wotton

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