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"FROCESTER, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Whitstone, county Gloucester, 4 miles S.W. of Stroud, its post town, and 9 S. of Gloucester. It is a station on the Bristol and Birmingham line of railway. The village is situated at the base of a hill, the summit of which commands an extensive prospect over the valley of the Severn. Stone is quarried for building. This was formerly a part of the demesne of the abbey of St. Peter at Gloucester.The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value with the curacy annexed, £229. The church, which is about 1 mile distant from the village, is a modern structure dedicated to St. Peter. A chapel-of-ease is situated in the village. The charities yield about £12 per annum. There is a free school. Frocester Court was once the seat of the Huntley family, to whom Queen Elizabeth paid a visit in 1574. In its neighbourhood is the place known as the Abbey Grange, the roof of the barn being of oak, similar to that of Westminster Abbey."
[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 Frocester, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
- The transcription of the section for Frocester from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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- "The old parish church of St. Peter, a mile from the present village, was pulled down in 1954 and the former chapel-of-ease of St. Andrew is now used as the parish church." [NB. Victoria County History et al. say 1952]
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
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