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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"CAM, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, 1 mile to the N. of Dursley, its post town. It is situated on the small river Cam, a feeder of the Severn, and is a station on the Dursley branch of the Bristol and Birmingham railway. This district, which lies low and is liable to inundations, contains much rich pasture land, and is noted for its cheese. The woollen manufactories give employment to some of the inhabitants. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value with the perpetual curacy of Lower Cam, £150, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. George. Here are free schools for boys and girls, founded by Frances Hopton in 1730, the income of which is about £160 per annum, and a National school. The other charitable endowments are worth about £60 a year."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Cam, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
- Snippet from the Cam Church of England parish register:
"1641-1648:- No weddings registered all these eight yeares, part of the time of the civil war; which was not quite ended till 1660. Few Christenings or Burialls Registered all these eight yeares in the heate of the warre. And in the yeares 41, 45, 46 no Burialls at all registered" - ex. RRL, 1988.
- The transcription of the section for Cam from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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