DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. TURKDEAN. 355 was entirely rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, of limestone and dressings of freestone, forms a parallel~ in the year. r875, by the Earl of Ducie, with stone gram, and has a square lantern tower and two small obtained from a quarry on his estate, a smaJl ve.stry turrets, with an entrance porch and archway : a conser­ being added: there are 230 sittings: the burial ground vatory adjoins the mansion, and the park, which containa was enlarged by a piece of land given by the Earl of a beautiful lake in a valley between the beech woods, has Ducie, and the church and grounds enclosed by a stone an area of over 400 acres : the offices and residences on wall, at a total cost of about £s,ooo: in the churchyard the estate are also built of stone. The parish is the sole is an arched stone recess with seat, surmounted by the property of the Earl of Ducie, who is lord O'f the manor. Ducie arms, erected as a memoriaJ to Julia, late Coun­ In the park, on a hill overlooking the lake, is a Roman tess of Dncie, who died in r8g5 ; there is also an ancient camp, known as the "Bloody Acre": Roman coins, frag­ stone cross, restored by a former rector. ThEl, register ments of pottery and articles of bronze are frequently dates from the year r6rg. The living is a rectory, net found in this parish; the remains of a vineyard, -of un­ yearly value £385, including r6 acres of glebe, with certain date, are to be seen on the south side of the hill residence, in the gift of the Earl of Ducie, and held below the camp. The roil is light loam; subsoil, sand­ <!ince 1900 by the Rev. Edward Richard Mosley M.A. stone. The principal portion of the land is in pasture, of St. John's College, Cambridge. There is a charity and devoted to dairy purpases; wheat, barley and beans .estate of the yearly value of £zz 7s. rrd. used to meet are grown. The area is 1,569 acres of land and 8 of ehnrch expenses; there is also an orphanage for six water; rateable value, £2,379; the population in 1911 poor children, founded by the late Countess of Ducie. was 210. In this parish stands the "Tortworth Chestnut," the Sexton, John Barton. original girth of which was 6o feet ; it now measures <:~bout 57 feet, being much decayed on the west side.­ Letters are received through Falfield, Glos. &; delivered Yide Strutt's "Sylva Britannica," page 82; it is men­ at 7 a.m. Wall Letter Box, near School, cleared 8.10 tioned by Sir Robert Atkyns, and also in Evelyn's a.m. &; 5.40 p.m. week days only. The nearest money « Sylva" as a frumous tree in the reign of King order &; telegraph office is at Falfield, 2 miles distant Stephen. Tortworth Court, the seat of the Earl of Public Elementary School (mixed), for 250 children; Ducie P.C., G.C.V.O. is a noble mansion in the Tudor average attendance, 93; supported in part by th& i!tyle, erected between the years 1848 and 1853, from Earl of Ducie; there is a house for the IUaster; the designs of Mr. S. S. Teulon, architect, of London; Edward Algernon Smith, master; Miss Agnes Bullock, the building, constructed of micaceous sandstone, pro­ infants' mistress cured from quarries on his lordship's estate, with quoins Ilucie Earl of, P.C., G.C.V.O., F.R.S. Banting John, head gardener to the Poole Edward, blacksmith to the Earl Tortworth court ; & 16 Portman Earl of Ducie, Tortworth court of Ducie square W & Travellers', Athenreum Berry William, clerk of works to the Rice Henry, farmer, Old Lodge farm & Brooks's clubs S W, London Earl of Ducie Smith Daniel, farmer, Crockleys farm No6ley Rev. Edward Richard M ..A.. Fowles Maurice A. plasterer Tortworth Co-operative Society Lim. (rector), The Rectory Lainchbury Gabriel, head gamekeeper I (Miss Amy Berry, manageress) COMMERCIAL. to the Earl of Ducie I Witts Thomas Charles, dairy farmer, .Anstey Harry, farmer, Elm Tree frm Panes Ernest G. dairy farmer Tortworth & Brook farms 'TREDINGTON is a parish and village, bounded on a cross with a very tall shaft, and in a good· state of the west by the river Swilgate, 2~ miles south-south­ preservation. The register of baptisms dates from the east from Tewkesbury station on the Midland railway, year 1551 ; marriages, 1641 ; burials, 1541. The living and 611 north-west from Cheltenham, in the Northern is a vicarage, net yearly value £52, including 6£ acres division of the county, lower division of the hundred, of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of union, petty sessional division and county comt district Gloucester, and held since r883 by the Rev. George of Tewkesbury, rural deanery af Tewkesbury, and arch­ Edward Webster, of St. Bees. There is a charity of the odeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. yearly value of £ro, derived from invested money, for .John the Baptist is a building of stone, in the Norman the repairs of the church. The Rev. Wi!liam Surman and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south Mansell A.K.C.L. is the chief landowner. The soil is porch, containing a beautiful Norman arch, also one stiff clay; subsoil, blue lias. The chief crops are wheat dividing chancel from nave, and a wooden tower on the and beans. The area is r,o21 acres; assessable value, western gable containing 5 bells; the tower was rebuilt £r,s8r; population in 1911, 104. and the bells put in order in r883 at the sole cost of Sexton, William Hawker. the late John Surman esq. : the chancel is remarkable for its great length: there are the remains of two Norman There is an Isolation Hospital, opened in 1897• for the windows, and in the chancel a peculiar stone sedile : Tewkesbury Urban &; Rural District Councils, which on the north side of the communion table is a recess: has 30 beds 1n 1896 a memorial window was erected to the late Letters through Tewkesbury, arrive about 7.30 a. m.; no John Surman esq. and Elizabeth, his wife; an organ sunday delivery. Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.20 was also presented by their family at the same time: in p.m. week days only. Tewkesbury, 2! miles distant, 1893 the nave was refloored at a cost of about £97, by is the nearest money order &; telegraph office the parishioners and landowners, and in 1890 a clock, the gift of Commander A. B. Mansell R.N. was presented SCHOOL. in memory of his uncle, John Surman esq. of Treding- H. A. Badham, of Tewkesbnry, correspondent; Thomas ton Court: the cost of restorations carried out during B. K. Deavall, attendance officer the period of r883·9o, amounted ta £ssr : there is a Public Elementary School, on the borders of the parish, memorial brass to George Norman Bell, of Hampstead, is intended to serve both for this parish&; the hamlet d. r882, and an ancient font: there are sittings for rso of Stoke Orchard; it has accommodation for 70 chil- persons. In the churchyard, on the south side, stands dren; average attendance, 45 ; Miss Bennett, mistress Mansell Rev. Wm. Surman A.K.C.L. Harris Hubert (exors. of the late), Tewkesbury Urban &; Rural Districts Tredington court farmers, The Home &; Lower farms Isolation Hospital (Arthur Fowell Webster Rev. Geo. Edward, Vicarage Preston Robert, gardener to Rev. W. Turner L.R.C.P. &; S.Edin. medical COMMEUCIAL. S. Mansell officer; Mrs. Gertrnde Redstone, Rartlett "1'\"illiam. blacksmith Smith George, farmer matron) Crump John, farmer Spiers Wm. Fredk. farmer, Mill farm Vallender John, farmer TUFFLEY is now incorporated with the city of Gloucester. TURKDEAN is a parish and village, on the Roman I Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of l<'osseway and on the Cotswold Hills, 3! miles south from chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, north porch and Notgrove station on the West Midland branch of the an embattled western tower, containing 3 bells, recast Great Western railway, about 5 south-west from Bour- in 164 r, and a sanctus bell, recast in r663: the tower ton-on-the-Water station on the Chipping Norton, and chancel arch are Early Norman, the chancel is Cheltenham and Gloucester section of the Great Early English, and the rest of the building Perpendicu­ Western railway, 3 north from Northleach, and 12 lar: the east window is stained and there is a memorial north-by-east from Cirencester, in the Eastern division window in the chancel with inscribed brass plate to the 'Of the county, Bradley hundred, Northleach petty Rev. Frederick Biscoe M . .A.. vicar here, r837·8o: the sessional diTision, union and county court district, rural nave contains memorials to Elizabeth, wife of the Hon. deanery of Northleach, archdeaconry of Cirencester and Sir Montague N elthorp, d. 1718, and Sir William dioceoe of Gloucester. The church of .A.ll Saints is a Bannister kt. s baron of the Exchequer in Queen .A.nne's small but ancient building of stone, in the Norman, reign, who died in 1730: the communion plate include• GLOU. 23• .