Gloucestershire. Northleach
DffiECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NORTHLEACH. 255 and 84 from London, in the Eastern division of the and the Rev. Shepley Watson-Watson S.C.L. rector of county, Bradley hundred, rural deanery of Northleach, Bootle, Oumberland. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and and Bristol. The town is lighted with gas by a Company roots. The area of the entire parish, including Easting from works in the town. The church of SS. Peter and ton tithing, is 3,460 acres; rateable value, Northleach, Paul, erected about the middle of the 15th century, is a £1,512 ; Eastington, £2,425; total, £3,937; the popula noble edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consist tion in 1891 was, entire parish, 1,106; Northleach, 787. ing of chancel, nave of five bays with lofty clerestory, EASTINGTON is a tithing and hamlet I mile south aisles with north and south chapels, south porch, and a east, and consists of a few farms and some cottages and western tower with panelled and embattled parapet, con the workhouse for the Northleach union. Here is a. Mis taining a clock and 8 bells: the porch of two bays is en sion Room, erected on the site of an ancient church, long riched throughout with tracery, and has a groined roof; since destroyed; it was opened for service in 1890, Mr. and the exterior of the church is relieved by canopied Frederick Godwin A.K.O. head master of the Grammar niches and crocketed pinnacles: the east window is School, has been licensed by the Bishop as Lay-Reader.
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