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Beaumont Mrs. Dodington house C011DlERCIAL. Pli.IVATB RESIDENTS.. Codrington George .T ohn Granville Carpenter C. (Mrs.), frmr. Lyde's fm .!sburaer Rev. William M.A. (rector), Christopher, Sands court

DOWDESWELL is a parish and village, on the road is a hamlet, ~~miles east, partly in from to , ,, miles west from this parish and partly in that of Withington, with a sta­ Andoversford station on the Cheltenham and Bourton tion on tbe Great Western railway, and another on the branch of the Great Western railway, ''miles west from Midland and South Western Junction railway; a cattle the Midland and South Western Junction station at market is held here on the first and third fridays in every Andoversford and 4' east-south-east from Cheltenham, in month. the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Bradley, Ross:ey Manor was transferred to this parish from l'lnion and petty sessional division of Northleach, county Withington by Local Government Board Order 14,578, -eourt district of Cheltenham, rural deanery of Cheltenham March 25th, r883. and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church Parish Clerk, William Parrett. ()f St. Michael, built in 1577, is a cruciform edifice of Post, M. 0. & T. Office, And·oversford (Letters should stone, in the Late Perpendicular style, consisting of have Glos. added).-John Read Turk, sub-postmaster. •chancel, nave, transepts, aisles, south porch and a tower Letters are received through Cheltenham & the Mid­ with spire, containing 3 bells: there is a brass, with effigy land T. P. 0. north; delivered at 6 a.m. & 4 p.m.; rof a priest in cope. c. 1520, and evangelistic symbols, and a box cleared at 7·5 p.m.; sundays, 5.40 p.m monument, erected in 1900, to Maj.-Gen. George Brydges Wall Letter Boxes.-, cleared at 5.50 p.m.; 'R.M.A. by his widow, sister of the p1·esent rector: there no sun day collection; Upper Dowdeswell, cleared at are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year I575· 4·45 p.m. ; no sunday collection ; Lower Dowdeswell, The living is a Tectory, net yearly value £230, including cleared at 5·35 p.m.; sundays, 6 p.m :22 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Richard Public Elementary School, Dowdeswell (mixed), built, Hugh Coxwell-Rogers esq. and held since Igo8 by the with teacher's house, in 1843, for 59 children ; average Rev. John Thornton Avent M.A. of Caius College, Cam­ attendance, 51; Mrs. Kate Belcher, mistress; Miss bridge. Dowdeswell Court, at present occupied by Alfred !.fary Harvey, assistant mistress Drake esq. is a mansion in the Classic style, standing on an eminence surrounded by trees and woods; in the Police Station, Thomas Cooper, sergeant, & one constable -valley below the mansion is an ornamental piece of RAILWAY STATIONS. water, formed by wid·ening a tributary of the river Chelt, Great We•tern, Andoversford, Wm. Harvey, station master ~hich rises in the parish; the family of Rogers (which Midland· & South Western Junction; Andoversford, -came from Brianston, eo. Dorset, now the seat of Lord Ernes~ 'Brown, station master Portman) have been in possession of Dowdeswell and other estates in this county since the reign of Henry CARRIERS. VIII. Sandywell Park is the seat of Christian William Frederick , from Northleach to Cheltenham, tueo. Lawrence esq. J.P. Richard Hugh Coxwell-Rogers esq. thurs. & sat is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil A. Miles, from Guiting to Cheltenham, tues. thurs.& sat is clay and gravel; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief William Pulham, jun. from Naunton to Cheltenham,