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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"ALDERTON, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, in the county of Gloucester, 4 miles to the N.W. of Winchcombe. It contains the hamlet of Dixton, and is near the Cotswold hills. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £450, in the patronage of the Rev. C. Covey, the rector. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. A Saxon camp has left some remains here.""DIXTON, a hamlet in the parish of Alderton, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles N.W. of Winchcombe. There are some remains of an ancient chapel. Dixton House is the principal residence."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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