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Guilding John, farmer, Elm farm gineer &; machinist, & agen~ for im- Prosser Robt. carpntr. &; wheelwright Hargrave John, frmr. Leighton's frm plements, machinery &c. for house, Ryder Edwin, shopkeeper & farmer Meadows Wm. farmr. Farleigh's end farm & estate; machinery let out Scoggins Edgar, organist &; choir mstr Meek Daniel Freeman, tailor -& shop- on hire Stone John, farmer, Bar-house farm keeper, Elmore back Phelps Wintour; Salmon P.R Vick Dan, farmer, Elmore farm Merrett William K. agricU:tural en- Prosser John, carpenter Watts George, hay & fruit dealer ELMSTONE (originally Aylmundes-den and in Domes- visible near the church, but the manor house itself has day Book spelt Aylmundestan, so called from .£1lmund, disappeared. John Buckle esq. of , and an illustrious Thane, who in A.D. 664 lived at the court others who are lords of the manor of Elmstone, and ~he of Wulfere, King of Mercia)., very geneI'ally. but incor- trustees of the Gloucester Municipal Charities are the rectly called Elmstone Hardwicke, is a parish formed principal landowners. There is a charity, the income of subsequently to 1290, and containing the three manors which is derived from street property in Cheltenham, de­ and hamlets of Elmstone, Hardwicke and Uckington; the vised in the 40th year of Queen Elizabeth (1597-8) and hamlet of Elmstone, in which the church stands, now yielding upwards of £90 yearly; the deed limits this contains only five houses, and it is in consequence now charity to the repair of the fabric of the church: there are for all civil purposes included in the hamlet of Uckington; also some smaller charitie~ amounting to £8 yearly left it is 2! miles south-west from CI~ve station on the Mid- by various persons. The acreage, rat€able value and land railway, 31 north-west from Cheltenham, and S south population are included with Uckington. from , in the Northern dlivision of the county, HARDWICKE is a hamlet extending northwards and Cheltenham petty sessional division, rural deanery of westwards from the church to within 2 miles of Tewkes­ Winchcomb, and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. bury. Here is a Baptist chapel. built in 1863. The Elmstone and Uckington are in the lower division of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and hundred of , Cheltenham union and county the Misses Marsden, Dr. Weir, of Malvern, Sainsbury court district; Hardwicke is in the lower division of Gilbert esq. of 62 Old Broad street, London, and Mr. W. Westminster hundred, Tewkesbury union and county Hemmings, of Gloucester, are the chief landowners. The court district. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an population in 1891 was 197; the acreage is 1,733; rate­ ancient building of stone in mixed styles, first erected by able value, £1,799. the Benedictine monks of Deerhurst, but restored at different periods, and consists of Early English chancel, UCKINGTON is a hamlet in the lower division of ~e nave of four bays, south aisle with porch, and an em- hundred of Deerhurst, and in Cheltenham union, from battled western tower of Perpendicular date, containing which town it is 2! miles tnorth-west on the road to Led­ 4 bens, three of which are respectively dated 1618, 1675 bury; it was formerly called" Horkington," and before the and 1775: on the west side of the tower is a defaced image Reformation there was here an alien priory attached to the of the Virgin and Child, and two fig-ures playing on musi- church of St. Denis, Paris. At the beginning of the last cal instruments: the base of the village cross is preserved century the manor was held by Edward (Harley) Earl of in the baptistery; in the nave are two square pillars of the Oxford, at whose death, 16th June, 1741, it passed to Earliest Norman type and six Norman arches: the exis~- Joseph Berwick esq. of Worcester; J. S. Gibbons esq. of ing screen is an exceptional example of old and rich oak Baddington, who is now lord of the manor, and the Rev. carving of the Tudor period, freely adorned with the Han~er Morgan-Stratford, of St. Athan's rectory, Cow­ Tudor flower, and has been carefully restored: in the bridge, Glamorganshire, are the chief landowners. The east wall of the chancel on the north and south sides are Roil in general is a stiff, heavy clay; subsoil, gravel. The two remarkable square recesses: there is also an aumbry chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and TootS. The area in the north wall, a piscina on the south side, and a piscina of Elmstone and Uckington is 880 acres; rateable value, and traces of a stone altar at the east end of the south £1,443; in 1891 the populatiO'Il was 148. The area. of the aisle, formerly the Lady Chapel: in the chancel is a floor whole parish is 2,613 acres; the population in 1891 was slab to the Cowcher family, 1669, and in the baptistery are 345. Jioor slabs to the Buckle family, of various dates from Sexton, William Blackford Steger. 1645: a beautifully carved reredos has b~n given by the Post Office, Elmstone Hardwicke.-James Yates, sub- Misses Holt, as a memorial to their parents, formerly postmaster. Letters from Cheltenham arrive at 8 residents in the parish: the communion plate, which a.m.; dispatched at 5.35 p.m. week days only. Chel. bore the date 1516, disappeared when the greater part of tenham is the nearest money order office & Coombe Hill the vicarage was destroyed by fire in 1869: the church the nearest telegraph office. Pillar Letter Box at Uck- was re-seated and restored in 1871-8 at a cost of about ington cleared at 6.25 p.m. on week days only £1,500, and has 174 sittings. The register dates con- .A. School Board of 5 members was formed in 1875 for the tinuously from the year 1564. The living is a vicarage, united district of Elmstone Hardwicke & Uckington; net yearly value £240, including 4! acres of glebe, with H. G. Badham, Tewkesbury, clerk to the board; Alberi residence, in the gift of Mrs. Bayfield Roberls (during Corbett, Hardwicke. attendance officer her life, and after her death in perpetuity to the life Board School (mixed), built in 1864 & enlarged in 1878, tenant for the time being of the late Earl of Ellenborough's for 50 children; average attendance, 33; there is a estates at Southam), and held since 1879 by the Rev. house for the mistress; Mrs. Kennerd, mistress George Blakemore Bayfield John Roberts RA. of Oriel CUlTiers.-Green, passes through Uckington, lrom College, Oxford, who resides at Uckington. The remains Tewkesbury, & Mrs. Clifford, from Apperley to Chel· ()f the moat which surrounded the old manor house are still tenham, thurs. returning same day ELMSTONE. Selby Edwin, market gardenl!ll', Tew- Gibbons Leonard P. Uckington farm kesburv road Holt Miss. The Villa Steger William ma-ckford, sexton Smith Frank, farmer, Manor farm Roberts Rev. George :Blakemore Bay- HARDWIOKE. Steger Tom Davey, farmet'" field John RA. (vicar) Stuckev Charles William, farmer, Woodward Mrs. John, Old hall COMMERCIAL. Red House farm Brookes In. Lovering,frml".Manor frm Corbett Charles, farmer Walkley Charles Baker, farmer, Cole- Humphris William, market gardener, Harrison Hy. Edwd. farmer, Piff's elm man'·s farm Bedlam Harrison Priscilla (Mrs.), Old White Yates JameS', shopkeeper, Post office Hyde Walter, farm bailiff to L. P. Swan P.Hi. PHI's elm Yeend James, farmer, Green farm Gibbons esq Hewlett Thomas, farmer Yeend Marshall,school attendance officr Skirten Joseph, gamekeeper to J. S. Holder Isaac, farmer, Tithe homestead Gibbons esq Minett Henry, farmer, Harrow farm UOKINGTON. Theyer Priscilla(Mrs.),frmr.Pigeon ha Rock Alfred, market gardener, .Attwater Edward 'H Theyer T'hos. frmr. 1\fulthouse farm Tewkesbury road Brookes Mrs Ursell Joseph, carpenter ENGLISH BICKNOR is a vinage and parish, ing 5 bells and a clock: the stained east window of the bounded on the west by the river Wye, which here divides south aisle is a memorial to Henry and Mary Ann Davies : the county from Herefordshire, 2 miles east from Lyd- in the north aisle are two ancient monuments with reeum· brook station on the Ross and Monmouth section of the bent figures, the date of which is unknown: there are Great Western railway, 3 north from Coleford and 8 east sittings for 350 persons. The register dat~s from 156J. Jrom Monmouth, in the Forest of Dean division of the I The living is a rectory, net yearly value £210, including county, hundred of St. Briavels, union and county court 25 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. district of Monmouth, petty sessional division of Coleford,.1 Frederick James Aldirich-:B1ake M.A. rector of Welsh rural deanery of South Forest, and archdeaconry and Bicknor, Ross, and held since 1877 by the Rev. George diocese of Gloucester. The church of the Virgin Mary is Hustler M.A. of University College, Oxford. Adjoining a building of stone in the Norman and later stylell, con- the churchyard is an almshouse, erected in 1858 in sisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, memory of Mrs. Lucy Machen, with 6 rooms for 6 aged south porch and a low embattled western tower. contain- persons, and endowed with £2,000 Consols. The poor