Buckland

"BUCKLAND, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles to the S.E. of Evesham, in Worcestershire. Broadway is its post town. It is pleasantly situated on the Cotswold hills, at their northern extremity, and contains the hamlet of Laverton. The manor was one of the possessions of the abbots of Gloucester, and was afterwards held by the Gresham family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, worth £222, in the patronage of Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart. The church is in the perpendicular style, and has a fine stained window of the 15th century. This parish participates with Chipping Campden in the benefit of the free school, founded in 1707 by Henry F. Thynne, the income of which, from endowment, is about £130 per annum."

"LAVERTON, a hamlet in the parish of Buckland, county Gloucester, 5 miles N.E. of Winchcombe."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]