Gloucestershire. Ashleworth
DIRECTORY. J GLOUCESTERSHIRE. ASHLEWORTH. 31 <county, lower division of the hundred, union and petty in I9II was 786 in the civil and 8o6 in the ecclesiastical sessioBal division an!i county court> district of Tewkes parish (which includes part of Kemerton). bury, rural deanery of Tewkesbury and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloueester. The Thirle brook, a feeder PAMJ,NGTON is a tithing, village and hamlet, half a of the Swilgate, flows through the pariah. The church mile south-east. of St. Nicholas is an ancient building of stone in the ASTON-UPON-CARRANT is -a tithing and hamlet, Norman style, with additions mostly of the 14th cen- about I mile east-north-east. Here is a Wesleyan tury, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of six chapel, built in I845· bays, ,south porch, nortih aisle and an embattled western tower of the qth century, with four pinnacles, and FIDDINGTON is a tithing and haml~t, 1/i miles south. containing 6 bells: it has a handsome carved oak NATTON is a hamlet half a mile south-by-east, in screen, with canopy, and some remains of ancient Fiddington tithing. Here was formerly a Seventh-day stained glass: in the chancel are five stained windows, Baptist chapel, now disnsed. and there are memorial windows to the Rev. Charles NORTHWAY is a tithing and hamlet, half a mile Holden Steward, d. 1894, Mrs. Steward, d. 1910, and north. Northway House is now (I9I3) unoccupied. to Col. Henry Gillum-Webb, d. I904 ~ two brasses in the chancel to Herbert Charles Steward, who died on HO.\l:EDOWNS is a tithing and hamlet, half a mile board the S.S.
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