Guiting Power

"GUITING POWER, (or Guyting-Lower), a parish in the hundred of Kiftsgate, county Gloucester, 6 miles S.E. of Winchcombe. It is situated on the Cotswold hills, and contains the hamlets of Guyting Grange, Farmcote, and Cartlet. At the time of the Domesday Survey there were salt-pits in the parish; the inhabitants are now engaged in agriculture. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, under an Enclosure Act, in 1798. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £125. The church, which is partly Norman, is dedicated to St. Michael. There is also a chapel-of-ease at Farmcote. The charities produce £15 per annum."

"CARTLETT, a hamlet in the parish of Guiting Power, hundred of Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 6 miles to the E. of Winchcombe. It is situated on the Cotswold hills."

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