Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN

WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN, a village, a parish, and a district, in Gloucester. The village stands near the river Severn, 1½ mile SSW of Grange-Court r. station, and 2½ NNE of Newnham; and has a post-office under Gloucester.—The parish includes 11 tythings, and contains the district workhouse. Acres, 8,695; of which 670 are water. Rated property, £12,923. Pop., 2,501. Houses, 492. The property is much subdivided. Rodley manor belongs to Gen. Sir J. W. Guise, Bart.; and Northwood manor, to Col.Leslie. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £292.* Patrons, the Custos and Vicars-Choral of Hereford Cathedral. The church is decorated and later English; was partly restored in 1862; and has a detached tower and spire. There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £23.—The district consists of Huntley and Newnham sub-districts, and comprises 43,246 acres. Poor rates, in 1863, £6,554. Pop. in 1851, 18,124; in 1861, 20,189. Houses, 4,081. Marriages in 1863, 129; births, 753,-of which 41 were illegitimate; deaths, 377, -of which 161 were at ages under 5 years, and 14 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,220; births, 6,922; deaths, 3,498. The places of worship, in 1851, were 17 of the Church of England, with 6,120 sittings; 7 of Independents, with 1,435 s.; 4 of Baptists, with 826 s.; 8 of Wesleyans, with 1,072 s.; 3 of Bible Christians, with 304 s.: and 2 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 700 s. The schools were 20 public day-schools, with 1,581 scholars; 30 private day-schools, with 424 s.: and 23 Sunday schools, with 1,850 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Westbury on Severn AP/CP       Westbury on Severn RegD/PLU       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Westbury on Severn

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