248 NEWENT. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S son, escaping to one of the secret chambers in the house, Petty Sessions are held at the Sessions House every saved his life, and the place where he was concealed is alternate thursday, at 11.30 a.m. The following places 6till known as "Horton's Hole." Newent Court, the seat are included in the Petty Sessional Division :-Broms­ of Andrew Knowles esq. J.P. is a handsome residence, berrow, Corse, Dymock, Highleadon, Huntley, Kemp­ with colonnaded portico, standing on an eminence near ley, Newent, Oxenhall, Pauntley, Preston, Taynton, the church, in park-like grounds, finely timbered and Tibberton, Upleadon containing a beautiful lake. Stardens, the residence of F. A. Wilson esq. is 8 'finely built modern mansion of NEWENT RURAL DISTRICT OOUNCIL. stone, 8lianding in park-like grounds, about a. quarter of Meets at the Union every alternate thursday, no fixed a mile north. The Parks is the residence of Arthur time. William Montgomery-Campbell esq. Il.A. In 1558 one Clerk, Charles Tunnieliff, Culvert street Edward Horne was burnt at Old Court, formerly an Treasurer, Charles Nash, Capital &; Counties Bank, orchard connected with the Court House, for his religion: Broad street at Cugley, a. mile out of the town, there is a cavern in Medical Officer of Health, William Norris Marshall which Home is said to have concealed himself before his M.R.C.S.Eng. Church street capture. During the Civil war there was a garrison for Sanitary Inspector, Thomas Smith, Holts villa. the king at Newent, under the command of Colonel Meine, who was killed at Redmarley and buried at Gloucester. Surveyor, Alfred John Grubb, Rose villa, Watery lane About 1812 several brass and silver Roman coins of Julius NEWENT mGHWAY BOARD. Cresar, B.C. 48-44; Nerva, A.D. 96-98 ; Vespasian, A.D. Meets at the George Hotel, Newent. 69-79; and Constantine, A.D. 323-337, were found here, --as well as some fine specimens of earthenware. Andrew Clerk, Octavius Thomas Price, High street Richard Onslow esq. of Oxenhall, who is lord of the manor, Treasurer, Charles Nash, Capital & Counties Bank, Lord Somers, William Phelps esq. of Chestal, Dursley, Broad street Major James Henry Froude, Major Charles Hawkins S:AB SS Fisher, of Stroud, the Charity Commissioners, Andrew PlffiLIC E T LI HMENT . Knowles esq. Frank Ricardo esq. of Bromsberrow Place, Cemetery, Charles Tunnicliff, Oulvert street, clerk to the Ledbury, and Thomas Theodore Brewer Hooke esq. 01 Newent Parish Council; Henry Jellyman, keeper 01 Monte Rosa, Basbourgneuf, Dinan, France, are the chief cemetery grounds landowners. The soil in general is a light sand, inclining County Court, His Honor Arthur Ileecher Ellicott B.A. to red, better adapted for arable than pasture, of which, judge; William Hebb, registrar & high bailiff. The hO"Viever, there is some of a ,superior quality, as' well as county court is held at the Sessional Court every excellent orcharding; the subsoil consists Df coal, iron- alternate month; the district comprises the following stone, red sandstone, sand and clay. The chief crops are places :-Aston Ingham, Aston Crews, Ilromsash, wheat, barley and turnips, and fruit is largely grown. Bromsberrow, Howler's Heath, Keyson Hill, Corse, The area of the entire civil parish is 8,063 acres of land Dymock, Bromsberrow Heath, Ilroom's Green, Castle and 31 of water; rateable value, £13,4°8 ; the popula- Tump, Greenway, Holwood's Green, Leadington, tion in 1891 was: civil, 2,605; ecclesiastical, 2,°72. Ryton, Rylands, Tilly's Green, Woodend, Hart- Parish Clerk William Baron. pury, Woolridge, Highleadon, Kempley, Linton, GORSLEY with CLIFFORD'S MESNE, form an eccle-I' Gorsley, Newent, Iloulsdon, Ilran Green, Botloes Green, siastical parish formed from Newent, Gloucestershire and Compton, Cugley, Clifford's Mesne, Kilcote, Malswick, Oxenhall, Hillend Green, Shaw Common, Pauntley, Linton, Herefordshire, and will be found under a separate Pool Hill, Ketford, Preston, Redmarley D'Abitot, Forty heading. Green, Haw Cross, King s Green, Lowbans, Rudford, BOULS~O~ and Ki~cot tithing is 2 mil~s .south-we~t;! Staunton, Snig's End, Taynton Glass House Hill, Kent's Compton tlthmg, 2 llllles north; Cugley tIthing, Ii miles r Green May Hill Tibberton Upleadon Eden's Hill south, and Malswick tithing 1 mile south I Gand:r's Green ' ,, , IlOULSDON gave its name to a family who held it For Ilankruptcy purposeS' this Court is included in that from 1475 for several generations; in 1558 it belonged I of Gloucester; C. Scott, County chambers, Station to the Porter family, from whom it pa,s-sed by purchase I road, Gloucester, official receiver at the beginning of the present century to Mr. J. Noarse Certified Ilailiff under the" Law of Distress Amendment Morse, who, in 1803, was lord of the manor and also a I Act," James .Toseph Clark, Church street, Newent comiderable landowner. At this place there were for- I Session Court & County Police Station, Joseph Williams, merly two coal pits, sunk at the expense of a syndicate;! sergeant, & 2 sub-officers the dppth to the coal, which had a thickness of four or IFire Ilrigade, Henry Davis, superintendent five feet, was 41 yards; but these collie"ries are now Stamp Office, Post Office, James Ilisco, sub-distributor worked out. CO~EYGORE or Conigree, I mile west, was a Roman NEWENT UNION. s~ttle~ent. ' Board day, every alternate thursday at the board room , at H.I5 a.m. Post, M. O. & T. 0 ., T. M. 0., S. Il., Express DeIIvery, Th' . h f ll' . h . Gl t Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office, Ilroad street. e :omon comprIses t e 0 owmg parIS es m ouces. er- -James Ilisco, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from shIre :-Bromsberrow, Corse, Dymock, Hartpury, Hlgh. Gloucester at 4 & II a.m. & 3.45 p.m.; sundays, 4 leadon, Kempley, Ne'."ent, Oxenhall, Pauntley, ~reston, ~ a.m.; dispatched at 10.36 a.m. & 4.30 & 8.35 p.m.; Rudford! Taynton, TIbbert?n Upleadon; & ID Wor- sundavs, 9 p.m. The office is open for telegraph busi- cesters~ll'e, Redma~ley. D Abltot & Staunton. The ness {ram 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. & for post office orders popul~tlon of the umon ID 1891 was' 8,740 ; area, 40 ,846 from 7 a m till 8 P m acres, rateable value, £54,481 Post & M.' 0: 0" s..Il. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Clerk t? .Guardians & Assessment Committee, Charles Kilcote.-Mrs. Olive Sysum, sub-postmistress. Let- Tunmcliff, Culvert street. ters arrive from Gloucester via. Newent at 7.45 a.m.; Tre.as~rer, Ghas.. Na~h, CapItal & CountIes. Ba.nk, Newent dispatched at 7 p.m. Newent is t,he nearest telegraph Rehevmg & Vac~mahon Officers, Newent dIstrIct, Wallace office, 2 miles distant S~ml;lel Han~ms! Broad street, Newent; Redmarley Wall Letter Iloxes, Compton, cleared at 7. 10 p.m.; dlstnct, Ben] amm N~nn, Redmarley . , Upleadon Cross, cleared at 6.20 p.m.; Union Hill, C~ectort to the Guardians, Thomas Sllllth, Holts villa, d~welnOffi cleared at 10.15 a.m. & 8 p.m . Me Ica cers & P ubl'le Vaccma . t ors, Ilromsberrow dis- COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR NEWENT PETTY trict, Arthur Robert Green L.R.C.P.Lond. (medical SESSIONAL DIVISION. • officer only), Ledbury; Dymock district, Frank Hayes, Knowles Andrew esq. Newent court,Gloucester, chairman Smelt L.R.C.P.Edin. The Villa, Newent; Newent dis- Wedderburn Sir William bart. M.P. Meredith, near trict, William Norris Marshall M.R.C.S.Eng. Church Gloucester street, Newent; Redmarley district (& public vaccina- Ackers Benj. St. John esq. Huntley manor, Gloucester tor for Ilromsberrow district), Charles St. Stephen Deane Geo. Onslow esq. Iloyce court, Dymock, Gloucester Richard Nason M.A., M.D., C.M. Corse grange, Corse Grove Capt.Stanhope R.N. The Grove,Taynton, Gloucester Superintend'ent Registrar, Charles Tunnicliff, Culvert Ricardo Frank esq. Bromsberrow Place, Ledbury st. Newent; deputy, William Green, Ilroad st. Newent Scobell Sanford George Treweeke esq. M.A. The Down Registrars of Ilirths & Deaths, Newent sub-district, house, Redmarley, Gloucester Wallace Samuel Hankins, Ilroad street, Newent; Thackwell Major 'Yilliam PoIson, The White house, deputy, James Joseph Clark, Church street, Newent; Pauntley, Gloucester Redmarley sub-district, Ilenjamin Nunn, Redmarley; Whatley Rev. H, L. Aston Ingham deputy, Mrs. Fanny Nunn Clerk to the Magistrates, Philip John William Cooke, Registrar of Marriages, Kewent union, Thomas Smith, Sessions house Holts villa, Kewent.